- History and criticism, Comic books, strips, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, Marvel Comics Group
Interweaves history, anecdotes, and analysis with more than one hundred interviews with Marvel insiders to reveal how Marvel, which introduced brightly costumed caped crusaders in the 1960s, became one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.
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Earnest, classical in form, cool and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Sean Howe
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 491
- Publisher
- Harper, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061992100
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