{"product_id":"marvel-comics-sean-howe-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean Howe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0061992119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061992117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.38w x 1.30d","brand":"Sean Howe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996689301759,"sku":"9780061992117","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d11cf122-9b3d-480e-82d9-e3ac1d5e655f.jpg?v=1683343124","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marvel-comics-sean-howe-9780061992117","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}