{"product_id":"marvel-comics","title":"Marvel Comics","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\n“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\u003cbr\u003e\nFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n“Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdos changed the world. That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nJonathan Lethem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A warts-and-all, nail-biting mini-epic about the low-paid, unsung ‘funnybook men’ who were unwittingly creating twenty-first century pop culture. If you thought the fisticuffs were bare and bloody on the four-color page, wait ‘til you hear about what went down in the Marvel bullpen.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nPatton Oswalt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Exhaustively researched and artfully assembled,\u003cbr\u003e\nMarvel Comics 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.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nChuck Klosterman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Page after page, Sean Howe’s\u003cbr\u003e\nMarvel Comics manages to be enchantingly told, emotionally suspenseful and totally revelatory. If I knew more about superpowers, I’d be able to explain how he did it.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nSloane Crosley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Sean Howe is to Marvel Comics what Procopius was to the Byzantine Empire: a court gossip of breathtaking thoroughness and exactitude, and a sly and nuanced writer. It is imperative that this work not fall into the hands of alien species, or we’re done for.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nLuc Sante\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A jittery, hilarious, anecdotal, and exhaustive history of the company. . . . If you’re a comics fan, this is essential reading. If you’re not, then it’s merely fascinating. Howe has written a biographical history of modern America’s id.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nGQ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Written crisply with lots of original reporting,\u003cbr\u003e\nMarvel Comics is a must for any superhero or pop-culture fan.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nThe New York Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Sean Howe reveals the real-world battles and triumphs behind the biggest name in comics.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Sean Howe’s gripping new history lays out five decades of Marvel adventures and insanity, and will make you believe that comic-book creators have even weirder lives than their mutant creations.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nRolling Stone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cbr\u003e\nMarvel Comics is a meticulous chronicle of the real secret origins of the superhero, a tragic love story about the relationship between a long parade of passionate, talented superhero devotees and the company that didn’t love them back.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\n      From the Back Cover      \u003cbr\u003e\nAn unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America\u003cbr\u003e\nOperating 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. 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