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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.09.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches
• EAN: 9780061992117
• ISBN: 978-0-06-199211-7
• Pages: 496
• Dimensions (packing): 13.5 x 20.3 x 3.1 cm
• Series: New York Times Bestseller; New York Times Bestseller
• Subjects: Roy Thomas, Wolverine, Marvel, Wonder Woman, Captain America, X-Men, Thor, Iron Man, Steve Ditko, Stan Lee, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Jack Kirby, Superman, Spiderman, Martin Goodman, Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Business, Daredevil, Anime, Hawkeye, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, History, Popular Culture, Creativity, Performing Arts, Fangirl, 20th Century, books, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, him, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Entertainment, company history, Boys, Criticism, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Drawing, History of Art, Manhwa, Iceman, behind the scenes, Superheroes, Comic Art, Howard the Duck, Defenders, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Marvel Universe, John Romita, Portuguese, Audible, pop culture, Comic Con, History of the Americas, The Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: arts and entertainment, Animated films and animation, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, publishing industry, Film history, theory or criticism, Research methods: general, Webtoon, creative industry, Archie Goodwin, REFERENCE: Research, PERFORMING ARTS: Film / Genres / Animated, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Science fiction, comic books, Dark Horse Comics, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Historical Fiction / General, Media, entertainment, information and communication industries, trials and tribulations, comics history, marvel characters, Marvel comic books, Larval, lawsuits, fanboy, History of Marvel Comics, Jim Shooter, comic artists, Depression-era, graphic books, animated cartoons, young avengers, story of marvel, Superhero storytelling, corporate politics, Sean Howe, creative teams, social advances, stans soapbox, bullpen bulletin, catws, comics creators guild, stever gerber, struggling industry, stan leigh, marvel entertainment group, shadow unleashed, catfa, multi-billion dollar enterprise, making of the mcu, CACW, comic book empire, creative infighting, ms marvel carol danvers, Marv Wolfman, PULP PUBLISHING, marvel artists and writers, cooking with deadpool