{"product_id":"all-of-the-marvels-a-journey-to-the-ends-of-the-biggest-story-ever-told-9780735222182","title":"All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditor's Choice \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the \"epic of epics\"--and to the past sixty years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thorough, fascinating, and joyfully executed, \u003ci\u003eAll of the Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for fans and scholars alike.\" --G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma and replenishing in its loving specificity . . . a testament, and a tribute.\" --Jonathan Lethem \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . \u003ci\u003eAll of the Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e is magnificently marvelous. Wolk's work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all.\" --Junot D?az, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961are the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. And Douglas Wolk has read the whole thing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wolk sees both into the ever-expanding story and through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In his hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years--a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A huge treat for Marvel fans, this book is also a revelation for readers who don't know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Wolk\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the Eisner Award-winning \u003ci\u003eReading Comics\u003c\/i\u003e and the host of the podcast \u003ci\u003eVoice of Latveria\u003c\/i\u003e. A National Arts Journalism Program fellow, Wolk has written about comic books, graphic novels, pop music, and technology for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615658381586,"sku":"9780735222182","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a159ad82-858d-4645-820b-9737716956f2.jpg?v=1732497998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-of-the-marvels-a-journey-to-the-ends-of-the-biggest-story-ever-told-9780735222182","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}