“Spider-Man”, “The Fantastic Four”, “Captain America”, “The Incredible Hulk”,” The Avengers”, “Iron Man”, “Thor”,” The X-Men”, “Daredevil” – these superheroes quickly won children’s hearts and sparked the imagination of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Coming from Harper in October, an exceedingly well researched history of Marvel from Timely on to the first Spider-Man movie, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story Howe’s previous comics exploits include the anthology of essays Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comicsįrom a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company named “Marvel Comics” introduced a series of bright-costumed superhero characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Disclosure: Author Sean Howe interviewed me for this and he interviewed everyone else.
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