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The Secret History of Marvel Comics

Blake Bell,Michael J. Vassallo
The Secret History of Marvel Comics Book PDF

Author : Blake Bell,Michael J. Vassallo
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781606995525

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The Secret History of Marvel Comics by Blake Bell,Michael J. Vassallo Pdf

The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children. The book also features a comprehensive display of the artwork produced for Goodman’s other enterprises by Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, Bill Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the very best pulp artists in the field, including Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and Marvel Comics #1 cover artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines also featured cover stories on celebrities such as Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, as well as contributions from famous literary and social figures such as Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.

Pulp Empire

Paul S. Hirsch
Pulp Empire Book PDF

Author : Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780226350554

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Pulp Empire by Paul S. Hirsch Pdf

"Paul Hirsch's revelatory book opens the archives to show the complex relationships between comic books and American foreign relations in the mid-twentieth century. Scourged and repressed on the one hand, yet co-opted and deployed as propaganda on the other, violent, sexist comic books were both vital expressions of American freedom and upsetting depictions of the American id. Hirsch draws on previously classified material and newly available personal records to weave together the perspectives of government officials, comic-book publishers and creators, and people in other countries who found themselves on the receiving end of American culture"--

Marvel Comics

Sean Howe
Marvel Comics Book PDF

Author : Sean Howe
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780062314697

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Marvel Comics by Sean Howe Pdf

The 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. “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 For 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.

The Secret History of Marvel Comics

Anonim
The Secret History of Marvel Comics Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret History of Marvel Comics by Anonim Pdf

The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn’t just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore
The Secret History of Wonder Woman Book PDF

Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804173407

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The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore Pdf

Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner … skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.

Our Gods Wear Spandex

Chris Knowles
Our Gods Wear Spandex Book PDF

Author : Chris Knowles
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781609253165

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Our Gods Wear Spandex by Chris Knowles Pdf

Was Superman's arch nemesis Lex Luthor based on Aleister Crowley? Can Captain Marvel be linked to the Sun gods on antiquity? In Our Gods Wear Spandex, Christopher Knowles answers these questions and brings to light many other intriguing links between superheroes and the enchanted world of estoerica. Occult students and comic-book fans alike will discover countless fascinating connections, from little known facts such as that DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz started his career as H.P. Lovecraft's agent, to the tantalizingly extensive influence of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy on the birth of comics, to the mystic roots of Superman. The book also traces the rise of the comic superheroes and how they relate to several cultural trends in the late 19th century, specifically the occult explosion in Western Europe and America. Knowles reveals the four basic superhero archetypes--the Messiah, the Golem, the Amazon, and the Brotherhood--and shows how the occult Bohemian underground of the early 20th century provided the inspiration for the modern comic book hero. With the popularity of occult comics writers like Invisibles creator Grant Morrison and V for Vendetta creator Alan Moore, the vast ComiCon audience is poised for someone to seriously introduce them to the esoteric mysteries. Chris Knowles is doing just that in this epic book. Chapters include Ancient of Days, Ascended Masters, God and Gangsters, Mad Scientists and Modern Sorcerers, and many more. From the ghettos of Prague to the halls of Valhalla to the Fortress of Solitude and the aisles of BEA and ComiCon, this is the first book to show the inextricable link between superheroes and the enchanted world of esoterica. * Chris Knowles is associate editor and columnist for the five-time Eisner Award-winning Comic Book Artist magazine, as well as a pop culture writer for UK magazine Classic Rock. * Knowles worked with Robert Smigel on The X Presidents graphic novel, based on the popular Saturday Night Live cartoon, and has created designs and artwork for many of the world's top superheroes and fantasy characters. * Features the art of Joe Linsner, creator of the legendary Dawn series, and more recently a collaborator with comics maestro Stan Lee.

New Avengers

Brian Michael Bendis,Brian Reed
New Avengers Book PDF

Author : Brian Michael Bendis,Brian Reed
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302367657

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New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis,Brian Reed Pdf

Collects New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5. The Illuminati. An elite group of the planet's most powerful guardians to face its greatest threats. Join Iron Man, Professor X, Black Bolt, the Sub-Mariner and Mr. Fantastic as they take on the threats no one else can handle - and learn of secrets that will forever alter the way they (and you) look at the Marvel Universe!

The Secret History of AA Comics

Bob Rozakis
The Secret History of AA Comics Book PDF

Author : Bob Rozakis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781105321719

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The Secret History of AA Comics by Bob Rozakis Pdf

"In the 1940s, M.C. Gaines sold his All-American Comics line to his partners at DC Comics. But what if, instead, he had bought out DC? And suppose Green Lantern and The Flash had become the surviving heroes of the Golden Age, with new versions of Superman and Batman launching the Silver Age of Comics? Comic book industry veteran Bob Rozakis delivers a fascinating tale of what might have been, complete with art from the Earth-AA archives!"--Amazon.com.

Stan Lee

Adrian Mackinder
Stan Lee Book PDF

Author : Adrian Mackinder
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526771353

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Stan Lee by Adrian Mackinder Pdf

Discover the astonishing history of modern American entertainment, seen through the eyes of a pop-culture icon who lived for nearly 100 years. Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World is not just another biography. It is a journey through twentieth century American history, seen through the life of a man who personified the American Dream. This book shows how Stan Lee’s life reflects the evolution of American entertainment, society and popular culture throughout the 1900s and beyond. Along the way, bold questions will be asked. Was Stan Lee himself a superhuman creation, just a mask to protect his true, more complicated secret identity? Just like the vibrant panels of the comics he wrote, Lee’s life, it seems, is never black and white. Sourced from Lee’s own words, this book also includes brand new and exclusive interviews with Marvel comic book creators, for whom Lee’s work proved an invaluable inspiration. Upbeat, accessible and fun, this book is told with a glint in the eye and a flair for the theatrical that would make Stan Lee proud. This is a bold celebration of the power of storytelling and a fitting tribute to Stan Lee’s enduring legacy. Excelsior!

X-Men Forever

Chris Claremont
X Men Forever Book PDF

Author : Chris Claremont
Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0785136797

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X-Men Forever by Chris Claremont Pdf

"Contains material originally published in magazine form as X-men forever #1-5"--P. 2 of cover.

History Of The Marvel Universe

Mark Waid
History Of The Marvel Universe Book PDF

Author : Mark Waid
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302519667

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History Of The Marvel Universe by Mark Waid Pdf

Collects History Of The Marvel Universe #1-6. It’s the greatest tale ever told — and you’ve never seen it like this! Writer Mark Waid and artist Javier Rodríguez weave together a sprawling, interconnected web of stories into one seamless narrative that takes you from the dawn of the Marvel Universe all the way to its end! Far more than a collection of moments you may already know, this is a new tale featuring previously unknown secrets and shocking revelations, connecting dozens of threads from Marvel’s past and present! From the Big Bang to the twilight of existence, this sweeping saga covers every significant Marvel event, providing fresh looks at characters of all eras!

Make Ours Marvel

Matt Yockey
Make Ours Marvel Book PDF

Author : Matt Yockey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781477312506

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Make Ours Marvel by Matt Yockey Pdf

Tracing the rise of the Marvel Comics brand from the creation of the Fantastic Four to the development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this volume of original essays considers how a comic book publisher became a transmedia empire.

3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man (Expanded Edition)

Matt Kindt
3 Story The Secret History of the Giant Man Expanded Edition Book PDF

Author : Matt Kindt
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506706221

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3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man (Expanded Edition) by Matt Kindt Pdf

From New York Times bestselling and Harvey award-winning Mind MGMT graphic novelist Matt Kindt comes a decades-spanning tale of love, secrets, aging, espionage, and family. Craig Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig's strange gigantism brings a variety of problems as he becomes more isolated and unknowable. Told during three eras by three different women with unique relationships with nearly three story tall Craig, 3 Story follows his sad life from his birth to the present.

The Marvel Book

DK,Stephen Wiacek
The Marvel Book Book PDF

Author : DK,Stephen Wiacek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781465496010

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The Marvel Book by DK,Stephen Wiacek Pdf

The Marvel Book is an exhilarating journey through the endlessly fascinating, ever-dynamic, and awe-inspiring Marvel Comics universe. One Marvel book to guide them all. If you want to understand the Marvel Comics Universe in all its complex glory, The Marvel Book is the only book you need. It is a unique exploration of the vast, interconnected Marvel Comics Multiverse from its birth to the end of everything and beyond. Meticulously researched and expertly written, The Marvel Book is packed with vivid, carefully sourced artwork, illuminating infographics, and incisive, specially curated essays that shed new light on the myriad wonders of the Marvel Comics universe. From iconic Super Heroes such as the Avengers, Spider-Man, and the Black Panther, to revolutionary technology like Iron Man's armors and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarriers, to enduring villains such as Thanos and Loki, The Marvel Bookexplores the key concepts, characters, and events that have defined and shaped Marvel Comics over the past 80 years. The book's content is divided into key subject areas-The Multiverse, Science and Technology, War and Peace, Cosmic Forces, Magic and the Supernatural, and Alternate Realities-that form the foundations of Marvel Comics. The Marvel Bookis a revealing and invaluable roadmap to a boundless comics universe that no Marvel fan will want to miss! © 2019 MARVEL

The Secret History Omnibus Volume 1

Jean-Pierre Pecau
The Secret History Omnibus Volume 1 Book PDF

Author : Jean-Pierre Pecau
Publisher : Archaia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1932386785

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The Secret History Omnibus Volume 1 by Jean-Pierre Pecau Pdf

Four immortal brothers and sisters are entrusted with ivory cards in the dawn of prehistory by a dying shaman, and told never to use the cards together. Four immortal brothers and sisters, four archons, leaping through time, consumed in an epic struggle to influence and shape the history of Western civilization. From Moses’ challenge to the Pharaoh to the origin of the Grail myth; from the Pope’s extermination of the Cathars to Nostradamus’ travels in Italy; from the Spanish Armada and the Great Fire of London to Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt; and finally to the Angel of Mons appearing over the trenches of World War I. A secret occult history of the world told in seven chapters. Collects the first Secret History series in preparation for the second, coming in 2010.