Kiss: Where No Band Has Tread Before
Michael Gross, Marvel Comics, 1977
THE BEST WAY to understand KISS is to look at the faces in the concert-going crowd, tens of thousands of faces attached to the fans who have made KISS America's premier rock and roll band. "Our audiences," drummer Peter Criss once said, "are a show in themselves."
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