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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sean Howe, Howe Sean
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9780061992117
• ISBN: 978-0-06-199211-7
• Pagine: 496
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 31 mm
• Serie: New York Times Bestseller; New York Times Bestseller
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura d'interni, design; History, Popular Culture, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, History of Art, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, 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, Film history, theory or criticism, Research methods: general, REFERENCE: Research, PERFORMING ARTS: Film / Genres / Animated, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Science fiction, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Historical Fiction / General