Sean Howe

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

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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.
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681 printed pages
Original publication
2013
Publication year
2013
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  • Roberto Millashared an impression7 years ago
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    Fun story about Marvel, incredible to think that so many talented and creative people don't get to enjoy the riches from their creative work. Especially considering the amount of exposure those characters get and enormous cash they generate .... this is just sad.

  • Regisshared an impression5 years ago
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