Prof. Blair Davis has recently published a new book, Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page, from Rutgers University Press. Examining the ways in which movies and comics adapted each other between 1900 and 1960, Movie Comics is the first book to closely examine the relationship between the film and comics industries between 1930 and 1960, as well as how films and television programs were adapted into comic books in the Classical Hollywood era.
Publisher's Weekly calls Movie Comics "an enlightening, scholarly history. Davis treats his topic seriously while also celebrating the pleasures of these two lively arts." Comics scholar Scott Bukatman says "Movie Comics makes a crucial contribution to media studies not only by unearthing and exploring the very long history of comics adapted for the screen, but also by simultaneously covering the myriad ways that comics presented material originally produced for film and television. The real subject of this book is the never-ending saga of media mediating one another, and in Blair Davis’s most capable hands, it’s a tale meticulously researched and engagingly told." Film scholar Dana Polan says ""His proven talent for trenchant research well on display, Blair Davis not only chronicles comics' influence on cinema but shows innovatively the movies' frequent adaptation into comics. A masterful study."
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/movie-comics/9780813572253
