The Big Book of Scandal

by Jonathan Vankin

Book Overview

'The Big Book of Scandal ' features comic-style treatments of over 50 of the most sordid sagas to rock the 20th century. Witness the exploits of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Elvis, Liz, Di, Tricky Dicky... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563893584
• ISBN13: 9781563893582
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: DC Comics
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Scintillating And Amusing.

Shame on the people inside this book whose scandalous lives provide such fun reading! By reducing (or is it "elevating") to graphic recreations the misadventures of these celebrities and other assorted famous people who got caught in the act, the authors and artists here provide us with some wickedly delightful re-tellings of the juiciest scandals of the recent past. They're all here!

Better Than the Enquirer!

"The Big Book of Scandal" from Paradox Press digs up all the hottest dirt from the 20th century! Find out that Clinton wasn't the first philandering president! And royal scandals didn't begin under Queen Elizabeth II either! Learn just how Hollywood became Babylon! You won't believe your eyes!

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!

A riotous look at how the mighty fall: Greed, sex, perversion, and fraud. All the things what make people watch the news, and buy papers. The artwork and writing are top notch, as is the right amount of humor in each story.

Concise comic book on forgotten scandals

Vankin does a great job of concisely and completely dealing with long forgotten scandals, without too much crossover into his previous books (Conspiracies, Cover Ups and Crimes and 60 Greatest Conspiracies) and he does not pick easy targets. The Lockheed Scandal, the Wilson-Terpil Affair, several minor celebrity sin-fests, even something on tired old Watergate get comicized here. The book focusses on Hollywood, society, political and big business scandals, and so distinquishes itself from the other Big Books--on the unexplained, criminals, martyrs, urban legends, weirdos, losers and freaks. To coin a Vankinish observation, that list looks more like readers than topics the longer it gets. The first book in this series--from Factoid Books, a front for Paradox Press, which is an imprint of DC Comics--was the excellent Big Book of Conspiracies.