1970, 1st edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed on title page. In a protective mylar wrap.

A history of comic books as described through the essays of Harlan Ellison, Roy Thomas, Ted White, Don Thompson, Ron Goulart, Richard Ellington, Dick Lupoff, Bill Blackbeard, Tom Fagan, Jim Harmon, and Chris Steinbrunner. 

There are 15 pages of full color reproductions of classic Golden Age comic covers, as well as numerous B / W illustrations. Or as the blurb on the jacket back puts it, "all this plus 15 swell pages in color, too!"