Comic Book Confidential

Comic Book Confidential is an AmericanCanadian documentary film, released in 1988. Directed by Ron Mann and written by Mann and Charles Lippincott, the film is a survey of the history of the comic book medium in the United States from the 1930s to the 1980s, as an art form and in social context.

According to Mann, the project started in the mid1980s when he was working on a press kit of the comedy Legal Eagles. He secretly used resources from that project including the studios crew, money and film stock to interview his subjects during his off hours. Due to running time constraints, Mann couldnt include footage with musician Frank Zappa, Scrooge McDuck creator Carl Barks, All American Comics editor Julius Julie Schwartz and creator of the first allwoman comic book It Aint Me Babe, Trina Robbins.Confidential was first released theatrically in Canada in 1988, and in the United States in 1989. It was released unrated. The 1991 laserdisc had extra features consisting of a complete comic by each artist, shot for TV viewing. ........

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