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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 LethemFor 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.
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 LethemFor 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.