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1983's American Flagg! #1 cover by artist Howard Chaykin. Source

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Bryson Johnson, co-owner of Comics Heaven and specialist consultant at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s, has compiled a shortlist of the American comics that defined the decades to explain exactly why these issues remain so poignant today

Comics that Defined the Decades

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She heard a rumour

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Step Back in Time to 1952: American comics in your local newsagents!

A photograph used to promote a book of street photography of a newsagent’s in Bethnal Green, London, offers a fascinating ​glimpse of how American comics once rubbed shoulders with their British counterparts on the high street

A photograph used to promote a book of street photography of a newsagent’s in Bethnal Green, London, offers a fascinating glimpse of how American comics once rubbed shoulders with their British counterparts on the high street. Look closely in the top part of the window of “S. Lavner”, and you can see copies of comics such as DC Comics The Flash on display. Older downthetubes readers will well…

Step Back in Time to 1952: American comics in your local newsagents!