AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES THE 1990S (C: as a result

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Longtime scribe RON MARZ (ARTIFACTS

in a long corridor pinned with ancient dreams

Tom goes to extreme measures to learn about his father's activities in the Golden Age of comic books

AMERICAN COMIC BOOK CHRONICLES THE 1990S (C: as a resultThe 1990s was the decade when Marvel Comics sold 8. 1 million copies of an issue of the X Men, saw its superstar creators form their own company, cloned Spider Man, and went bankrupt. It was when Superman died, Batman had his back broken, and the runaway success of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman led to DC Comics' Vertigo line of adult comic books. It was the decade of gimmicky covers, skimpy costumes, and mega crossovers. But most of all, the 1990s was the