Topics Covered in Volume 1

These are the historical topics covered in our first volume, A Comic Book History of Boston. They show the range of subjects our contributors tackled, and what topics are still out there to be explored in our second volume.

1600-1799

The Granary Burying Ground

New England’s “Dark Day”

The Sons of Liberty

Cowpaths of Waltham

Shays’ Rebellion

Boston’s First Duel

Pope’s Night

1800-1899

Black Sam the Pirate

Boston Athenaeum’s book bound in human skin

Heywood’s Brook in Concord

The Lost Pirate Treasure of “Dungeon Rock”

The Boston Slave Riot and the Trial of Anthony Burns

Edwin and John Wilkes Booth

Mark Twain Visiting Boston’s Literary Crowd

Old Ironsides

1900-1949

Moxie Soda

Charles Ponzi

Sacco and Vanzetti

The Old Howard Burlesque House

The Great Boston Molasses Flood

Harry “Bucky” Lew

Robert Goddard

1950-2009

Local Surfing History

ZOOM

James Brown’s concert on the night of the King assassination

The Busing Crisis

William Moulton Marston

The Boston Strangler

Boston Punk Rock

WBCN Breaks “Roxanne”

The Gardner Museum Heist

Student Activism on Immigration at Harvard

Celtic Rookie Dee Brown

Whitey Bulger, Fugitive

The Mooninite Bomb Scare

Town-Gown Relations in Cambridge

Are You a Contributor to Volume 1?

Were you one of the forty-two contributors to A Comic Book History of Boston, also known as Inbound 4? If so, we want to keep in touch with you!

Actually, we have kept in touch with a lot of you through the BCR, so we know all the great things you’ve accomplished since 2009. You’ve published books, graduated, started new jobs, moved to new towns, had kids, won Eisner Awards, and more!

The last couple of pages of Inbound 4 listed your email addresses and websites—as they were back then. We hope to update those pages with your current websites plus a short bio of each of you, including books, comic books, webcomics, or other art and history projects you’ve worked on. (And no emails.)

Please help us out by filling out the form on this page with your updated information.

Any questions? Please drop us a line at comicbookhistoryofboston@gmail.com. Thanks!

The Jernegan Solution, a True Story from Maine

The Jernegan Solution is, as its subtitle says, a true story of a get-rich-quick scheme in Maine at the end of the nineteenth century. It’s a true Gilded Age story, flecked with real gold. The author and artist is Dan Mazur, one of the editors of A Comic Book History of Boston.

Order The Jernegan Solution through Ninth Art Press.

Colonial Comics: New England

Some of the creators behind our Comic Book History of Boston volumes also contributed work to the Colonial Comics: New England series edited by Jason Rodriguez and published by Fulcrum Publishing.

The first volume covers the years 1620 to 1750 with stories of the British settlement of what they called New England, the Native peoples’ reactions to these newcomers, and the uneasy creation of a new society in the New World.

The second volume looks at the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War with more stories of discontent printers, displaced Native healers, enslaved men advocating for their liberty, counterfeiters, politicians, and the first shots heard ’round the world.

Look for both volumes in bookstores and online, or click on the cover images above to order direct.