Ka-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comic Book Words (Kevin J. Taylor, ed.) collects Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & Which Have Never Before Been Published in Any Lexicon
. It contains such useful terms as HWOKSH [Batman #502, 1993] The sound of a head being kicked
and MMMBUH-WHAMMM [The Adventures of Bayou Billy #2, 1989] The complex sound of a monster truck crashing through a wall
, it goes far beyond the eponymous KaBoom.
Kronos: A Chronological History of the Martial Arts and Combative Sports is a far more substantial work, and it appears to attempt to list any historical evidence or anecdote pretaining (however peripherally) to its subject. It’s organized as a long list of snippets of information, arranged chronologically and broken up into sections by time periods. It’s absolutely fascinating and well worth dipping into time and again.
I originally found both of these web publications archived at the National Library of Canada Electronic Collection.
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Just to let you know that KA-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comic Book Words, Symbols & Onomatopoeia is now in print and much much larger than the web dictionary of almost a decade ago. It is available at http://www.comicbookwords.com