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Availability:In StockContributor:Sean HoweSeries:P.S.Publish date:2013-10-01Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061992117ISBN-10:61992119UPC:9780061992117Book Category:Business & Economics, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Corporate & Business History, Industries, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Topic:Media & CommunicationsSize:8.00 x 5.38 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC8XT1P0V4

The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America's history -- Marvel Comics - and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.

"Sean Howe's history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world...That it's all true is just frosting on the cake." --Jonathan Lethem

For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939, Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades and Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company's marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span, Marvel Comics packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most enduring pop cultural forces in contemporary America.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061992117ISBN-10:61992119UPC:9780061992117Book Category:Business & Economics, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Corporate & Business History, Industries, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Topic:Media & CommunicationsSize:8.00 x 5.38 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SC8XT1P0V4
Howe, Sean: -

Sean Howe is the editor of Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics and the Deep Focus series of film books. He is a former editor and critic at Entertainment Weekly, and his writing has appeared in New York, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Spin, and The Village Voice. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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