All of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
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- ISBN: 9780735222168
- ISBN: 0735222169
- ISBN: 9780593300596
- ISBN: 0593300599
- ISBN: 9780735222175
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367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The Mountain Of Marvels -- 2. Where To Start, Or How To Enjoy Being Confused -- 3. Curse Of The Weird (Frequently Asked Questions) -- 4. The Junction To Everywhere -- 5. Interlude: Monsters -- 6. Spinning In Circles -- 7. Interlude: Lee, Kirby, Ditko -- 8. Rising And Advancing -- 9. Interlude: The Vietnam Years -- 10. The Mutant Metaphor -- 11. Interlude: Diamonds Made Of Sound -- 12. Thunder And Lies -- 13. Interlude: Before The Marvel Cinematic Universe -- 14. What Kings Do -- 15. Interlude: Presidents -- 16. The Iron Patriot Acts -- 17. Interlude: March 1965 -- 18. The Great Destroyer -- 19. Interlude: Linda Carter -- 20. Good Is A Thing You Do -- 21. Passing It Along. |
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Genre: | Literary criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. |
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All of the Marvels : A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
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All of the Marvels : A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The 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 "Thorough, fascinating, and joyfully executed, All of the Marvels is essential reading for fans and scholars alike." --G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel) "A revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma and replenishing in its loving specificity . . . a testament, and a tribute." --Jonathan Lethem "Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolk's work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all." --Junot DÃaz, New York Times Book Review The 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. 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. 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.