A list of book-length studies on individual comics publishers, syndicates, studios, cooperatives, etc., now including web links. Individual book entries may include the book's Table of Contents, on-site reviews, printed review citations, links to on-line information, and more.

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NOTES: All WebLinks open in a new window;  indicates a new or revised entry added since
July 31, 2008.

• For American syndicated comics, also consult King Features Syndicate, United Media/Comics.com, Universal Press Syndicate/UExpress.
• For other information on publishers, consult Don Markstein's Cartoonopedia as well as the other bibliographic resources noted on our main page.

• WebLink: AC Comics.com: Official site.

• Vance, Michael. Forbidden Adventures: The History of the American Comics Group. (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture no. 53.) Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1996. ISBN: 0-313-29678-2.

• WebLink: Rummblestrips.com: By Joanne Ellen Mutch
  

• WebLink: Antarctic Press

• WebLink: Captionbox.net

• WebLink: Carlsen

• WebLink: Casterman

• WebLink: Charlton Spotlight: Magazine devoted to the publisher.
• WebLink: Ramon Schenk's Charlton Comics Homepage

• WebLink: CrossGen Comics @ The Big Database of Comic Books

• Daniels, Les. DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Introduction by Jenette Kahn. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2076-4.
• Daniels, Les, Chip Kidd, and Geoff Spear. The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. n.p. ISBN 0810949695 (hc). Buy It!
• Goulart, Ron, ed. The History of DC Comics: Fifty Years of Fantastic Imagination. An issue of Comics: The Golden Age. Simon and Schuster, 1987.
• SearchLink: Search comics research bibliography for "DC"
• WebLink: DC Comics (official)
• WebLink: Atlas of the DC Universe: locations of fictional cities (Metropolis, Gotham, etc.) and countries.
• WebLink: Who's Whose in the DC Universe?: Bob Hughes' list of most characters from the pre-credit era at DC (pre-1972); each entry lists the character, the author and artist of their first appearance and the title and issue number and date of that appearance.

• WebLink: D.C. Thomson

• WebLink: Dargaud

• WebLink: Dark Horse Comics

• WebLink: Digital Webbing Press
  

• WebLink: Drawn & Quarterly

• WebLink: Quantum: Rock of Ages

• WebLink: Dupuis

• Diehl, Digby.  Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives. Designed by David Kastle and Rick DeMonico. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 256pp. ISBN 0312144865 (cloth).
• Geissman, Grant. Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics! NY: Harper's Design, 2005. 272pp. ISBN 006074698X.
  

• Merino, Ana. Fantagraphics: Creadores del CANON. Spain: Semana Negra, 2003. (paper.)
  
• WebLink: Fantagraphics

• Hamerlinck, P.C., ed.  Fawcett Companion: The Best of FCA [Fawcett Collectors of America].  Foreword by Marc Swayze.  Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows, 2001.  160pp.  ISBN 1-893905-10-1 (paper).  [publisher's information]
• WebLink: FCA: Fawcett Collectors of America: P.C. Hamerlinck's magazine for all things Fawcett, Shazam/Captain Marvel, C.C. Beck, and more.

• WebLink: Fluide Glacial

• WebLink: Gemstone Publishing

• WebLink: GraphicClassics.com: Official website.

• WebLink: Hollywood Comics

• WebLink: Les Humanoides Associes

• Schreiner, Dave. Kitchen Sink Press: The First 25 Years. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink P, 1994. ISBN 0-87816-307-7 (cloth), 0-87816-292-5 (paper).

• Beazley, Mark D. & Jeff Youngquist.  Marvel Encyclopedia [Marvel Age magazine version].  Marvel, 2004.  96pp.
• Daniels, Les.   Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics.  Introduction by Stan Lee.  New York: Abrams, 1991. ISBN 0-8109-3821-9.
• Mallory, Michael.  Marvel: The Characters and their Universe.  Hugh Lauter Levin Asssociates, 2002.  288pp.  ISBN 0883631105 (hc).
  
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 1: The Amazing Spider-Man. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, January 1976.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 2: Conan and the Barbarians. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, March 1976.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 3: The Avengers, Defenders, and Captain Marvel. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, August 1976.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 4: The Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, July 1977.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 5: The Mighty Thor. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, November 1977.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 6: Heroes from Strange Tales. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, December 1977.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 7A: Heroes from Tales to Astonish Book One: The Incredible Hulk. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, June 1978.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 7B: Heroes from Tales to Astonish Book Two: The Sub-Mariner and Others. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, July 1978.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 8A: Heroes from Tales of Suspense Book One: Captain America. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, December 1979 [1978].
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 8B: Heroes from Tales to Astonish Book Two: Iron Man and Others. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, December 1978.
• Olshevsky, George. The Marvel Comics Index Vol. 1, No. 9B: Daredevil. Toronto: G & T Enterprises, [1979?].
• Raviv, Dan. Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both Lost. Broadway, 2002. 320pp. ISBN 0767908309 (hc). Rpt: Comic Wars: Marvel's Battle for Survival. Sea Cliff, NY: Heroes Books, 2004. 334pp. ISBN 0-7851-1606-0 (paper).
  
• Thompson, Don and Maggie Thompson, eds. Marvel Comics Checklist and Price Guide, 1961 to Present. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1993. ISBN 0-87341-245-1 (paper).
• Wood, Susan. The Poison Maiden & the Great Bitch: Female Sterotypes in Marvel Superhero Comics. Baltimore, MD: T-K Graphics, 1974. Rpt.: Essays on Fantastic Literature no. 5. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1989. 28pp. ISBN 0893705373. Buy It!
• WebLink: Marvel Comics: Official site.
  
• WebLink: Atlas Tales: Timely Marvel Atlas information.
• WebLink: Marvel Comics Group 1939-1980: by Joseph William Marek.
• WebLink: Marvel Masterworks Resource Page: Information on Marvel's hardcover reprint series.
  
• WebLink: Unofficial Chronology to the Marvel Universe: By Robert Wicks; a history of the Marvel univeisrse and its characters until Fantastic Four #1.

• Brown, Jeffrey A. Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 232pp. ISBN 1-57806-281-0 (cloth), 1-57806-282-9 (paper).
• WebLink: The Milestone Rave

• WebLink: MOJO Press not working 2/13/2006

• WebLink: NBM

• WebLink: Editions Paquet

• WebLink: RedEyePress.net

• WebLink: Sergio Bonelli Editore

• WebLink: SilentDevil.com

• WebLink: Sirius Comics @ The Big Comic Book Database

• WebLink: Sky-Dog.com

• WebLink: Slave Labor/Amaze Ink

• WebLink: Expo-Stakhano 

• WebLink: Viz Communications

• WebLink: Volunteer Comics