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A collection of comics drawn from Golden Age comic books from the 1940s through the early 1960s features selections from such comics as Captain Marvel, Pogo, Donald Duck, and Dennis the Menace.
Teaches how to write and illustrate children's books by analyzing story structure and showing how the story's action is communicated through picture sequences
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