{"product_id":"all-of-the-marvels-douglas-wolk-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?z, \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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Wolk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0735222185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780735222182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Douglas Wolk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169723773183,"sku":"9780735222182","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2f4cde82-4a06-4cf5-b5e2-421cfd3c363e.jpg?v=1689654561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-of-the-marvels-douglas-wolk-9780735222182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}