Marvel Comics - The Untold Story

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Howe, Howe Sean
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9780061992117
• ISBN: 978-0-06-199211-7
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 31 mm
• Series: New York Times Bestseller; New York Times Bestseller
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, United States of America, USA, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, REFERENCE: Research, PERFORMING ARTS: Film / Genres / Animated, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Historical Fiction / General