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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Sean Howe

Hardcover | Pages: 485 pages

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Original Title:	Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
ISBN:	0061992100 (ISBN13: 9780061992100)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Art Spiegelman, Andy Warhol, Steven Spielberg, Grant Morrison, Stokely Carmichael, Yuri Gagarin, Michael Jackson, Anthony Burgess, Tom Wolfe, Kurt Vonnegut, Bruce Jay Friedman, Václav Havel, Larry King, Federico Fellini, Ben Carruthers, Stanley Martin Lieber, Jacob Kurtzberg, King Vidor, Steve Gerber, Jim Shooter, Chris Claremont, Gene Simmons, Steve Ditko, Gil Kane, William M. Gaines, Martin Goodman, Carl Burgos, Bill Everett, Lloyd Jacquet, Joe Simon, Jerry Siegel, Jean Davis Goodman, Robbie Solomon, Chip Goodman, Iden Goodman, Frank Torpey, Syd Shores, Maurice Coyne, Vince Fago, Jack Goodman, Celia Goodman, Mickey Spillane, Patricia Highsmith, John Romita, Gene Colan, John Buscema, Joe Maneely, Joan Boocock Lee, Larry Lieber, Frederic Wertham, Monroe Froelich, Jr., Dick Ayers, Jules Feiffer, Don Heck, Mike Sekowsky, Eric Stanton (comics fan), Stan Goldberg, Sol Brodsky, Leon Lazarus, George Roussos, Florence Steinberg, Mario Puzo, Marie Severin, Joe Orlando, Wally Wood, Ethan Roberts (Marvel), Chic Stone, Artie Simek, Sam Rosen, George Tuska, John Severin, Steve Skeates, Roy Thomas, Mort Weisinger, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Morrisey, Michael McClure, Robert Lawrence, Mel Shestack, Dennis O'Neil, Roz Kirby, Carmine Infantino, Paul Reinman, Al Harvey, Myron Fass, Batton Lash, Jim Steranko, Herb Trimpe, Jim Warren, Stu Schwartzberg, Linda Fite, William David Sherman, Leon Louis, Jacques Bergier, Dick Giordano, Neal Adams, Martin Ackerman, Timothy Wylie, Don Wallace, Mark Evanier, Jack Schiff, Alan Resnais, Sheldon Feinberg, Charles Revson, Robin Green (Marvel secretary), Tony Mortellaro, John Verpoorten, Barry Windsor-Smith, Morrie Kuramoto, Kenneth Koch, Steve Lemberg, René Auberjonois, Peter Boyle, Chuck McCann, Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys), Chico Hamilton, Eddie Carmel, Roberta Goodman, Frank Giacoia, Harvey Kurtzman, Denis Kitchen, Kim Deitch, Basil Wolverton, Mike Ploog, Mike Esposito, Jack Abel, Danny Crespi, Vince Coletta, Archie Goodwin (Marvel), Jeff Jones, Rich Buckler, Steve Englehart, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Gerry Conway, Don McGregor, Tony Isabella, Jim Salicrup, Albert Einstein Landau, Jean Thomas, Phil Seuling, Carole Seuling, Billy Graham (illustrator), Doug Moench, David Anthony Kraft, Gary Groth, Jim Starlin, Rick Moody, Val Mayerik, Mike Friedrich, Alan Weiss, Al Milgrom, Frank Brunner, Dave Cockrum, Bill Mantlo, Ross Andru, Sal Buscema, Howard Chaykin, Barry Kaplan, Jim Galton, Ivan Snyder, Arte Johnson, Victoria Principal, Vincente Minnelli, Mary Skrenes, Allyn Brodsky, Duffy Vohland, Roger Stern, Roger Slifer, Scott Edelman, Berni Wrightson, Bill Aucoin, Elton John, Angela Bowie, Ed Shukin, Berry Gordy, Don Goodman, Steve Krantz, Frank Pryce, Chuck Fries, John Payne, Jo Duffy, Mary McPherran, Bob Hall, Rick Marschall, Ralph Macchio, Mark Gruenwald, Larry Hama, Frank Miller, Bill Sinkiewicz, George Pérez, Lee Kramer, Olivia Newton-John, Chuck Rozanski, Lynne Graeme, David Michelinie, Joe Brancatelli, Donna Summer, Tom DeFalco, Alice Donenfeld, John Romita, Jr., Bob Layton, Frank Robbins, Roger McKenzie, David DePatie, Lee Gunther, Jim Belushi, Joe Ruby, Fred S. Warman, Michael Hobson, Ed Hannigan, Jenette Kahn, Annie Nocenti, Mike Carlin, Eliot Brown, Carol Kalish, John Tartaglione, Fred Hembeck, Peter David, Jack Morelli, J.M. De Matteis, Sterling Silliphant, Tom Selleck, Carl Weathers, Paul Gulacy, Mike Zeck, Gene Day, Roger Corman, Irwin Allen, Paul Levitz, Mario Cabelli, Joe Calamari, Diana Schatz, John Beatty, Walter Simonson, Ron Frenz, Vince Colletta, Don Perlin, Frank Springer, Jim Mooney, Harlan Ellison, Bob Budiansky, Peter Gillis, Jim Owsley, Howard Mackie, Paul Smith, Jackson Guice, Bob Harras, David Mazzucchelli, Michael Winner, Harry Sloan, Larry Kuppin, Robert Rehme, Carl Potts, Terry Kavanagh, Louise Simonson, Michael Higgins, Rusty Citron, Bob Gale, Boaz Yakin, William Rabkin, Ronald O. Perelman, Bill Bevins, Art Adams, Whilce Portacio, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Rob Liefeld, Kurt Busiek, Terry Stewart, Fabian Nicieza, Scott Lobdell, Danny Fingeroth, James Cameron (film director), Sven Larson, Lou Bank, Richard T. Rogers, Jim Valentino, Erik Larsen (comics), Mike Rockowitz, Avi Arad, Margaret Loesch, Irwin Linker, Tom Brevoort, Rob Tokar, Wesley Snipes, Wes Craven, Bernd Eichinger, Oley Sassone, Alex Ross, Matt Rogine, Bobbie Chase, Jim Sokolowski, Jerry Calabrese, Dan Jurgens, Larry Marder, Virginia Romita, Kevin Smith, Menahem Golan, Isaac Perlmutter, David Schfeff, Scott Sassa, Carl Ichan, Shirrell Rhoades, Michael Golden, Gary B. Sherman, Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti, Mark Waid, John Singleton, Robert Rodriguez, Joseph Ahearn, Eric Ellenbogen, Peter Cuneo, Bill Jemas, Brian Michael Bendis, Peter Paul, Scott Koblish, Peter Milligan, Mike Allred, Gail Simone, Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch, Sam Raimi, Adam Sandler, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Will Smith, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Joss Whedon, Jeph Loeb, J. Michael Stracyzynski, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, David Maisel, Clifford Meth, Colleen McMahon, Axel Alonso
Literary Awards:	Harvey Awards Nominee for Best Biographical, Historical, or Journalistic Presentation (2013), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Comics-Related Book (2013)

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An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America

Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil—these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of a half century, Marvel's epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.

Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel's identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. As the company has weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market, its characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers—also known as the celebrated Marvel "Bullpen." Entrusted to carry on tradition, Marvel's contributors—impoverished child prodigies, hallucinating peaceniks, and mercenary careerists among them—struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another.

For the first time, Marvel Comics reveals the outsized personalities behind the scenes, including 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 World War II veteran who'd co-created Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company's marquee characters in a three-year frenzy of creativity that would be the grounds for future legal battles and endless debates.

Drawing on more than one hundred original interviews with Marvel insiders then and now, Marvel Comics is a story of fertile imaginations, lifelong friendships, action-packed fistfights, reformed criminals, unlikely alliances, and third-act betrayals— a narrative of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural entities in America's history.

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Title	:	Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Author	:	Sean Howe
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 485 pages
Published	:	October 9th 2012 by Harper
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Sequential Art. Comics. Biography. Superheroes. Marvel

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DepressingShort shriftFascinatingDepressing, to see just how much Stan Lee and many others did some grand over-fucking of the painfully naive creators in whose backs this company was built. Short shrift, as in a great many sub-stories just beg to be told, but only get a passing reference amidst all the musical chairs of the corporate/management foolishness.Fascinating, imagining what it would've been like to be part of a rag-tag group of folks just blazing trails without any idea if any of this

Engrossing and well-written, Howe alternates between the drama of Marvel writers and artists and their characters. Like with most businesses, a peek under the hood shows a mess and people just trying to figure things out. Don't meet your heroes, I guess.

An essential, must-read history of the most recognizable comic book and entertainment company in the world. Sean Howe's meticulously researched and pitch-perfectly written book chronicles the story of Marvel from its early days as a pulp hero publisher before WWII to its current, mass-media juggernaut incarnation. Along the way, he introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters, including the eager to please Stan Lee, the tragic Jack Kirby, everyman Herb Trimpe, power-mad Jim Shooter and

The characters of Marvel comics have captured the imaginations of a multitude of audiences across the world. You see them on almost every other kind of merchandise and with the uber-successful Marvel universe brand of movies, this fame has hit the stratosphere. If the hype is paused for a moment then the characters themselves show signs of patterns running across their storylines. For instance most of the superheroes from the Marvel stables ( or DC for that matter) began life as crime fighters

Probably more than youd ever need to know about Marvel, but quite entertaining. So much drama! Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Marv Wolfman and so many more fought, created, and persevered. This is also a decent history of the comic book industry. I havent read a ton of comics, but enough to appreciate this and the process. Hoye is a phenomenal narrator!

This is an extremely readable and quite detailed history of Marvel Comics through the years, but exceedingly grim. It certainly shatters much of the Merry Marvel Mystique, for good or ill. As a result I found it rather sad to look behind the glittery curtain and see the bleak and crass reality. Regardless, Excelsior!

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is the story of Marvel Comics, from its beginnings in the late thirties until fairly recently, with all the highs and lows in between.Confession Time: For most of my life, I've been a comic book fan. I've got around 2000 of them in boxes in my nerd cave and have numerous super hero shirts. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story was a very gripping read for me. I read the sanitized version of some of the events in Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest