{"product_id":"marvel-comics-the-untold-story-9780061992117","title":"Marvel Comics: The Untold Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, \u003cem\u003eMarvel Comics\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eMarvel Comics\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowe, Sean:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSean Howe is the editor of \u003cem\u003eGive Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics\u003c\/em\u003e and the Deep Focus series of film books. He is a former editor and critic at \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, and his writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491407073554,"sku":"9780061992117","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd5a706b-c0ec-4db7-998e-96278f507e6a.jpg?v=1730540499","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marvel-comics-the-untold-story-9780061992117","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}