A great micro-history of the world of trashy comics of the 1930s-50s from the perspective of Black artists who worked in the industry. Provides much info about the lives & work of various Black early comics creators. So many of these artists possessed great talents but were forced into the margins of the publishing industry like so many artistic Kilgore Trouts. I really like the comics that were included, & wish Invisible Men included more. Something about the ever-present self-satisfied look on the Blue Beetle’s face made the Blue Beetle Comic by E.C. Stoner one of my favorites in the collection. Cal Massey’s “Absent Minded Professor” (“Horror From the Tomb #1”) is a great horror comic example & another favorite. I like how the author waited until the Afterward to drop on the reader the fact that teenaged Captain Marvel fans succeeded in petitioning Fawcett Publications to drop a racist caricature sidekick from the comic in 1945!