The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport

Amazing illustration, covered so much of the history of pro wrestling all the way back to the earliest beginnings. Just a fabulous read.

What I love most about this book is how condense and smartly structured it is. When it comes to the history of Professional Wrestling a lot of myths and historical gaps are throw in the common knowledge of this mysterious and misunderstood genre of entertainment. This book does a wonderful job parsing out and giving a pretty solid through line through important moments, personalities, and timelines. The book smartly breaks downs the eras and personalities that lead to why as the author claims that Professional Wrestling is "The One True Sport". It also allows a person for whom is not a fan to get a understanding of the complexities of its history and cultural importance. It's also an absolutely gorgeous book. Many of the panels would look great framed and on the wall of any professional wrestling fan. This is the perfect book for any fan that is fascinated and wanting to know more and get a fleshed out history of Professional Wrestling. Highly recommend to fans and non fans alike.

As a lifelong fan of both comic books and professional wrestling, I can honestly say that I have never seen a more well executed marriage of these two distinctly American genres. I quickly lost count of the number of times I caught myself smiling and nodding along as I leafed through these vibrantly animated pages. The art in the book is fantastic and the attention to historical detail is exceptional. The Author and the Artist must have culled over volumes of historical visual reference to present this as authentically as they have here. The writer does a fantastic job of balancing history, nostalgia and commentary, in making what may be the most satisfying "history" book I have every read. I also really appreciate that this was not done with the cooperation of any major professional wrestling organization, leaving the Author and the Artist to provide this unfiltered and unrefined history of the sport. I give it my very Highest Recommendation.

As a professional wrestling fan for over 30 years and since I was 5 years old, I felt there wasn't too much I didn't know about it. How wrong I was after reading this! Sitterson gives an intuitive and remarkable history lesson into the origins and inner workings of a genre long looked over by the general public. His words accompanying Moreno's vibrant illustrations suck you into the fantastical and, often times, controversial world of professional wrestling. The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling is just as informative as it is entertaining. Whether you're a hardcore fan, a casual fan, or someone who doesn't watch but wants to understand it's popularity, I highly recommend this to you or any other fans you may know!

Its a good book, a good bathroom read. Not for kids though, references to wrestlers murdering their families. Porn and other subjects parents probably wont want their kids trying to learn about. Glad I skimmed this before I let my sons look at it.

I haven’t read a comic book in years!! But if you want to travel through memory lane and relive your childhood wrestling memories, this is the book that gets it done. The writing from Aubrey guides you through the history of wrestling and gives you many “ohh now I get it” moments. The artwork from Chris is superb and super cool. I would definitely recommend this comic book to all OG wrestling fans and the newcomers who want to delve into it. All around great work, keep it going guys!!

Writer Aubrey Sitterson and artist Chris Moreno do too. They've crafted a fantastic story retelling the fascinating history of professional wrestling, from it's beginnings to where it is today. What I've found myself doing while reading this book is taking breaks just to search online all of the wrestlers and promotions. This story is my tool for looking up matches, promos and interviews of both things I love and have never heard of in wrestling. Meaning if used as a guide, this book doesn't just entertain you for the time it takes to read it. The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling can entertain you for days, weeks, months, years, DECADES! Now that's a con worthy of the one true sport.

Sitterson did a great job with the research and narrative of this book, following the threads of pro wrestling's strange lineage and presenting it in a fun, informative way. It'll never lose you, confuse you or piss you off. Sure, there will be some omissions because of how vast the world of pro wrestling is, but all of the major stuff is there. The artwork is stylized in a way that helps bring the cartoony, larger-than-life but inherently too serious medium of pro wrestling to life. Worth the purchase for both fans of wrestling and non-fans who are into well-made comic books.

This book was incredible. The artwork is amazing and the information inside makes it a real page turner. Highly recommend for any Pro Wrestling fan.

fantastique livre sur l'histoire du catch dans le monde entier, je conseil ce livre à tout les fans de catch/lutte(attention livre en anglais) du début de son histoire dans les fêtes forraine, au catch traditionnel au Mexique jusqu'au catch américain très connu ainsi que le catch très technique au Japon, super content du livre

My 11 year-old grandson read this from cover to cover in two days and absolutely loved it. Great graphics and informative.

Great illustrations and linear story of the discipline that we all love from when we were kids till now. Useful for long time fans and also for beginners who want to know more of why the business right now is how it is. Beautiful and accurate in every part, loved the parts dedicated to briths, mexican and japanese wrestling.

Very interesting graphic novel. Artwork is very good, and the story they covered is really interesting to keep you on the subject of wrestling all the time. :-)😁