"Joseph Pulitzer recognized the importance of comic art when he first printed Richard Outcault's "Yellow Kidˆ in a 1896 issue of The World. That is the sort of information available in this valuable guide and "browser" for both comics scholars and buffs. More than 1,200 cross-referenced entries cover 80 years and offer a world picture of the comics through 1975. Entries written by 15 contributors include themes, plots, character lists, adaptations into other media, artists, and writers. There also are separate biographical entries for artists, writers, and editors. A glossary is included, as weil as articles on the world history of comics and a history of newspaper syndication." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 133)