American Comic Book Chronicles #1980-1989

Keith Dallas's *American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s* is a comprehensive year-by-year account of one of the most creatively turbulent decades in comics history, covering 1980 through 1989. The cover photograph says it all — a richly layered spread of period artifacts including Atari game cartridges (*Asteroids*, *Missile Command*), a backpack, and actual comic covers from titles like *American Flagg!*, *Zot!*, *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*, and *Whisper* — a vivid snapshot of the cultural landscape surrounding the comics of that era. Published by TwoMorrows in 2020, this volume is an inviting deep dive for anyone who lived through those years or simply wants to understand why the 1980s still cast such a long shadow over the medium.