IDW Released March 2021

The Comic Book History of Animation #4 (2021) First Print, Cover A

The Comic Book History of Animation #4 is an issue of the The Comic Book History of Animation series from IDW, released March 24, 2021. Written by Fred Van Lente with artwork by Ryan Dunlavey. This page represents the regular first-print Cover A edition. Separate pages are available for the 1 incentive, retailer-exclusive and later-printing variant cover.

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Published March 2021
Cover Price $3.99
Pages 32

Don't touch that dial! It's SATURDAY MORNING FUNHOUSE! We roll into the 1960s, during which a CBS executive named Fred Silverman had the brilliant idea to turn Saturday mornings into all kids programming, transforming the toon landscape forever! Hanna and Barbera are fired from MGM, but become the biggest animators in the country-but what happens to all the jobs sent overseas? In Japan, the animation industry begins taking its first few steps toward dominance, where Hayao Miyazaki begins learning his trade-and yearning for more!