{"product_id":"marvel-comics-the-untold-story-9780061992100","title":"Marvel Comics: The Untold Story","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarvel Comics: The Untold Story\u003c\/strong\u003e by Howe, Sean. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780061992100.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\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.”\n—Jonathan Lethem\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953503596597,"sku":"ByrdShop_0061992100","price":35.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780061992100_8518dd06-cc92-4ea6-8bfb-692e7bdc6c4e.jpg?v=1781302882","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/marvel-comics-the-untold-story-9780061992100","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}