{"product_id":"the-complete-flip-comics-black-white-edition","title":"THE COMPLETE FLIP COMICS BLACK \u0026 WHITE EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre you looking for great satire and amazing artwork? If so, the Harvey two issue series FLIP\u003cbr\u003e\nCOMICS is for you. In April of 1954 Harvey Comics published their own satire comic series,\u003cbr\u003e\nFLIP COMICS to compete with the E.C. comicsÕ MAD series. The challenge for Harvey was\u003cbr\u003e\nE.C. paid well and had a lock on many of the industryÕs best artists. Luckily for them (and\u003cbr\u003e\nus), two outstanding artists, Howard Nostrand and Bob Powell, were already providing\u003cbr\u003e\nHarvey art for a number of the comics they were publishing.\u003cbr\u003e\nUnfortunately at the same time Harvey was publishing FLIP COMICS, down in Washington D.C.\u003cbr\u003e\nthe Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency Hearing was being held. Harvey quickly\u003cbr\u003e\ndropped out of the satire comic game after the second issue of FLIP COMICS was published in\u003cbr\u003e\nJune of 1954, as they tried to tone down their various titles so they would be more in line with\u003cbr\u003e\nthe current political thinking of what comic books should look like.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis volume collects the first two issues of FLIP COMICS plus twenty-five pages of original\u003cbr\u003e\nartwork, including a five page story that was slated for the unpublished third issue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RETRO COMIC REPRINTS","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44337347592353,"sku":"9798891524262","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/95qzvvz-front-shortedge-384_33f56cc3-60f9-4947-adb5-0e89e3e0240e.jpg?v=1747581966","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-flip-comics-black-white-edition","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}