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Marvel Comics
- The Untold Story
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
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 WW II veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, 20 years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy.
Incorporating more than 100 original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a 70-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.
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- orkney buyer
- 18-07-16
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I loved this audio book and I wanted more like this in the future.
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- A. Macgregor
- 12-02-18
Great Story
Where does Marvel Comics rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
over all this is a great story about marvel
What other book might you compare Marvel Comics to, and why?
good to hear just one side after hearing slug fest
How did the narrator detract from the book?
the narrator was very monotone made listening to the audiobook a struggle
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- Anonymous User
- 13-08-21
very interesting
The book was well read and quite informative.
gives a lot of history and backstop to the company.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-02-22
Hi
I thought it was amazing to listen to marvels history as a fan I found it very interesting.
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- MR H S G CHAMBERS
- 04-03-15
few inaccuratecies about Marville
could have done with more background on the none big characters and seemed to miss the whole Marvel Japan and Marvel UK and hardly mentioned Alan Moore or the massive effect of Watchmen and adult comics like American Splender or love and rockets on the comic market or any mention of Sam Raimi's first Marvel Comic film Darkman or emergence of hero films due to the Matrix film or any mention of the 90's hero films like the rocketeer Dick Tracy the shadow or the phantom or any mention of how batman and robin nearly killed hero films and worst for me no real mention of the computer games made with marvel character, it's an ok book it could have been better if sliced in to 4 books covering the 4 ages of comics
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- K. A. Mason
- 15-01-21
This is a story that you may not want to know
A very how the sausage is made tale. Heartbreakingly honest, but fascinating in equal measure.
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- Mrs
- 14-12-15
No thread to keep you engaged.
I find really good histories of companies or historical figures have a thread and one story links well in to another. This was missing in this and so it just because a series of events which have little bearing on each other. I just drifted through most of the book. It had its moments but not enough to hold my interest unfortunately.
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- Phil
- 12-03-18
Good, but...
It's an interesting insight to the history of Marvel, but after listening to Slugfest this was quite tough to listen to as the narrator is so boring.
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- Joe White
- 04-10-18
Book about Marvel
History of Marvel. Get's a tad boring, MCU not really mentioned just an end chapter. Stan Lee has lived a charmed life.
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