Sean howe marvel5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span,Marvel Comicspacks anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the mostenduring pop cultural forces in contemporary America. Combine Editions Sean Howe’s books Average rating: 4. His writing has appeared in New York, the Los Angeles Times, Spin, and the Village Voice. Jonathan LethemFor the first time,Marvel Comicstells 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 companys marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Sean Howe is a former editor at Entertainment Weekly and The Criterion Collection. ![]() ![]() The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in Americas history - Marvel Comics and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.Sean Howes history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the worldThat its all true is just frosting on the cake. ![]()
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