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The Untold Story
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"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 "Exhaustively researched and artfully assembled, this book is a historical exploration, a labor of love, and a living illustration of how the weirdest corners of the counterculture can sometimes become the culture-at-large." - Chuck Klosterman In the early 1960s, Marvel Comics introduced a series of bright-costumed superhero characters-including Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and the Amazing Spider-Man-that would evolve into a modern American mythology for millions of readers. Over the last half-century, these characters have been passed along among generations of brilliant editors, artists, and writers who struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another. Written by Sean Howe, former comic book reviewer and editor at Entertainment Weekly, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is a gripping narrative of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural entities in America's history.

Author Biography:

Sean Howe’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Observer, Spin, and The Village Voice. He is a former comic book reviewer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. He is the editor of Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics (Pantheon, 2004) which included contributions from Jonathan Lethem, Luc Sante, and Lydia Millet, among others. He lives in Brooklyn.
Release date NZ
October 15th, 2013
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
496
Dimensions
135x203x31
ISBN-13
9780061992117
Product ID
21228936

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