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Comic Book Confidential

A spirited introduction to the wider spectrum of American Comics intercut with hysterical archive footage. Congression hearings, lurid anti-comic propaganda documenting how successive generations of Authority have felt threatened by the comic-book subversives. Features Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman...

Year: 1988
Genre: Documentaries, Film Festivals 1990, Art and Artists on Film, Art On Film, Comics Movies, General Docos
Country: Canada
Director: Ron Mann
Starring: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Robert Crumb, Stan Lee
Duration: 85 Minutes
Rating: M
7.1/10
Location in store: Documentary (Art on Film)

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