Provides instruction on the techniques used to illustrate comic book stories, using as examples such Mighty Marvel heroes as Thor, The Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, and The Hulk.

"A Fireside book." Reprint. Originally published: ©1978.

The tools and the talk of the trade -- The secrets of form: making an object look real -- The power of perspective -- Let's study the figure -- Let's draw the figure -- The name of the game is action -- Foreshortening: the knack of drawing the figure in perspective -- Drawing the human head -- Composition -- Draw your own comicbook page -- The comicbook cover -- The art of inking.