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The incredible 70 year story of Marvel Comics
For comic book fans everywhere, Marvel's fascinating story explored and explained, decade by decade, year by year, month by month. Everything is covered, from the company's beginnings as Timely Comics in the late 1930s to the founding of the Marvel Universe of Super Heroes in the 60s, right up to the present day.
Learn all about the birth of key Marvel Super Heroes from the X-Men, Spider-Man and Hulk to The Fantastic Four. Discover all about their extraordinary comic book debuts, the geniuses that invented them, the crucial events behind their creation and their continuing influence on the world today via comic books, TV series and blockbuster movies.
Packed with stunning original comic book art and covers, this is a vibrant and visually spectacular look at Marvel Comics spanning seven tumultuous decades.
About the Author
Peter Sanderson is a comics historian and critic, who was Marvel's first official archivist. He is the author of DK's best selling X-Men: The Ultimate Guide and co-author of DK's The Marvel Encyclopedia and Marvel Chronicle. Peter was also one of the main writers of the first four versions of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
Matthew Manning has written numerous comics for a variety of publishers, including Marvel and DC. His work has appeared in the pages of The Batman Strikes!, Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century, Justice League Adventures, Spider-Man Unlimited, Looney Tunes, and Marvel Romance Redux. For DK, he has penned Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon, the updated versions of Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide and Hulk: The Incredible Guide, the children's reader Marvel Heroes: Greatest Battles, and contributed to Marvel Chronicle. Manning currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife Dorothy, and a collection of comics much too large for any normal-size apartment.
Matthew Manning has written numerous comics for a variety of publishers, including Marvel and DC. His work has appeared in the pages of The Batman Strikes!, Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century, Justice League Adventures, Spider-Man Unlimited, Looney Tunes, and Marvel Romance Redux. For DK, he has penned Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon, the updated versions of Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide and Hulk: The Incredible Guide, the children's reader Marvel Heroes: Greatest Battles, and contributed to Marvel Chronicle. Manning currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife Dorothy, and a collection of comics much too large for any normal-size apartment.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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To be more accurate it is the history of Timely, Atlas and Marvel Comics. It's a solid, well illustrated month by month history of the key moments that made Marvel Comics what they are today. It comes inside a hard storage box illustrated with Marvel characters from across the ages, a couple of smaller copies of the artwork one in b&w and one in full colour are in a pouch inside the box as nice extras.
As a Marvel fan from the mid 1960's to late 1970's I was around to read some of the greatest issues of The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Avengers, Thor, Defenders and many more as they came out as well as the black & white magazine titles like Dracula Lives and Monsters Unleashed.
I have started catching up on many of the stories I missed with reprints and this book filled in lots of the gaps that I was missing.
The early years from its creation by Martin Goodman in 1939 up to 1960 are covered largely by a couple of pages for each year. This still manages to show how many super-hero, horror, romance, war and western titles they published and how quick they were to change themes and title names in mid-stream and how outside distribution changes affected them.
1961 saw Stan Lee and Jack Kirby create the Fantastic Four and the rest is history. From the fertile mind of Stan Lee came The Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, Iron-Man, The Avengers, X-Men and many more, illustrated with artwork from Kirby, Ditko, Heck, Everett, Colan etc. From 1961 onward each years gets 4 or 6 pages depending on the events of that year and familiar names start to appear Roy Thomas, Sal and John Buscema, John Romita senior and junior, Gerry Conway, Chris Claremont, Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane, Ross Andru, Herb Trimpe, John Byrne, Frank Robbins and countless others, it would be futile to try to name them all but together they produced many memorable tales that have stayed with me over the decades.
This volume takes us from the early stand alone tales to Team-Ups and title crossovers, from the Kree-Skrull War to major epics that cut across many titles like the recent Civil War and Secret Invasion. There have been tales that changed comic history, deaths and re-births, marriages and divorces and even crossovers with rival DC Comics. There were arguments over the comics code authority's restrictions, titles that failed some miserably so; TV shows, movies and financial issues, and there were decisions made that many fans disliked and major characters have been killed off, none more so than the original Captain America who was killed last year.
Only two minor points, the first black character to star in his own title was Luke Cage and not The Black Panther and some of the writing printed over coloured panels could have been made clearer but certainly does not detract from the book's impact as a whole.
Throughout it all the words of Stan Lee in the introduction ring through as Marvel's mission statement "Everything we've done has been for just one purpose-to guarantee you hours of reading enjoyment" and it certainly has.
Happy 70th Birthday Marvel...Excelsior!
As a Marvel fan from the mid 1960's to late 1970's I was around to read some of the greatest issues of The Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Avengers, Thor, Defenders and many more as they came out as well as the black & white magazine titles like Dracula Lives and Monsters Unleashed.
I have started catching up on many of the stories I missed with reprints and this book filled in lots of the gaps that I was missing.
The early years from its creation by Martin Goodman in 1939 up to 1960 are covered largely by a couple of pages for each year. This still manages to show how many super-hero, horror, romance, war and western titles they published and how quick they were to change themes and title names in mid-stream and how outside distribution changes affected them.
1961 saw Stan Lee and Jack Kirby create the Fantastic Four and the rest is history. From the fertile mind of Stan Lee came The Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, Iron-Man, The Avengers, X-Men and many more, illustrated with artwork from Kirby, Ditko, Heck, Everett, Colan etc. From 1961 onward each years gets 4 or 6 pages depending on the events of that year and familiar names start to appear Roy Thomas, Sal and John Buscema, John Romita senior and junior, Gerry Conway, Chris Claremont, Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane, Ross Andru, Herb Trimpe, John Byrne, Frank Robbins and countless others, it would be futile to try to name them all but together they produced many memorable tales that have stayed with me over the decades.
This volume takes us from the early stand alone tales to Team-Ups and title crossovers, from the Kree-Skrull War to major epics that cut across many titles like the recent Civil War and Secret Invasion. There have been tales that changed comic history, deaths and re-births, marriages and divorces and even crossovers with rival DC Comics. There were arguments over the comics code authority's restrictions, titles that failed some miserably so; TV shows, movies and financial issues, and there were decisions made that many fans disliked and major characters have been killed off, none more so than the original Captain America who was killed last year.
Only two minor points, the first black character to star in his own title was Luke Cage and not The Black Panther and some of the writing printed over coloured panels could have been made clearer but certainly does not detract from the book's impact as a whole.
Throughout it all the words of Stan Lee in the introduction ring through as Marvel's mission statement "Everything we've done has been for just one purpose-to guarantee you hours of reading enjoyment" and it certainly has.
Happy 70th Birthday Marvel...Excelsior!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
At the price Amazon are charging for this book it is a must buy for Marvel fans who are interested in the History of comics. The way the book is presented is worth the full five stars alone. This is a properly designed bit of kit. The book is actually in thick printed card box and has a cut out M as it's actual cover. It looks stunning. As for the contents it has all the depth that most fans would ever need and fills in those gaps that many on and off fans might need to know about. I missed out the 90's and after reading this book I now am a little more aware of what I missed and relieved to find out it was the worst decade in Marvel's history to be reading them anyway.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Quite simply this is a must have for any comic book or general Marvel fan. Superbly put together and extremelly well written - and looks damn good on any bookcase!!!
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Huge fan, huge reward for money.
I would recommend this product to anyone who is a marvel fan.
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