{"product_id":"jerry-robinson-ambassador-of-comics","title":"JERRY ROBINSON: Ambassador of Comics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fully illustrated collection was written in collaboration with the artist himself. It is packed with Golden Age and Silver Age artwork and insights. Filled with extremely rare original artwork (\u003cstrong\u003eJerry Robinson\u003c\/strong\u003e saved much of his best Golden Age work, particularly for Batman, which appears here) along with lots of special material never before collected. As an extra bonus, the book cover, underneath the dust jacket, is painterly and amazing!\n\nJerry was a frequent curator and consultant (including to DC Comics in the 2000s). In 2004 he produced the first in-depth exhibition of the genre, \u003cem\u003eThe Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1939-1950\u003c\/em\u003e at the Breman Museum, Atlanta (which was excellent: I saw it - Bud). In 2006, Robinson curated the exhibition, \u003cem\u003eThe Superhero: Good and Evil in American Comics\u003c\/em\u003e, at the Jewish Museum in New York.\n\nRobinson also branched out into fine arts, commercial illustration and academia. Among 30 other books, he wrote one of the earliest ABOUT comics: \u003cem\u003eThe Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art\u003c\/em\u003e, 1974, revised in 2011 by Jerry and published by Dark Horse.\n\nJerry Robinson, much like \u003cstrong\u003eWill Eisner\u003c\/strong\u003e, was an early innovator and one of the best creators in the Golden Age. His work with \u003cstrong\u003eMort Meskin\u003c\/strong\u003e on The Black Terror (shown here) took a badly drawn hero to entirely new creative heights in the late 1940s. His stories for Stan Lee's Atlas (Marvel) comics, from war to crime, were among the best to appear there...he certainly had all the skills necessary, from panel innovation to storytelling, to have been an EC Comics mainstay -- if things had worked out differently.\n\nRobinson was an original member of the \u003cem\u003eBatman\u003c\/em\u003e team; his creations include the Joker and Robin (with writer Bill Finger), and some of the most creative covers and story artwork of the 1940s. His other creations include London (\u003cem\u003eBoy Comics\u003c\/em\u003e), Jet Scott and Atoman, one of the first \"atomic\" superheroes. Jerry passed away in 2011.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Print.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Very Fine\/As New.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abrams ComicArts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59640302174494,"sku":"RB3309","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB3309-ambassador-comics-jerry-robinson.jpg?v=1784493269","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/jerry-robinson-ambassador-of-comics","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}