EXTRACTS: Illustrators Crime Comics Special © 2020 Book Palace Books (144 pages in full edition)

137 American Daredevil: Comics, Communism and the Battles of Lev Gleason $24.99 Brett Dakin, Gleason’s great-nephew, opens up the family archives—and the files of the FBI—to take you on a journey through the publisher’s life and career. In American Daredevil you’ll learn the truth about Gleason’s rise to the top of comics publishing, his unapologetic progressive activism, and his sudden fall from grace.