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A very, very comprehensive history of Marvel Comics from it's beginnings, to the downturn in the 1960s when Jack Kirby and Stan Lee laid the foundations for the current Marvel Universe, through the resurgence in the 2000s (the narrative ends about 2012). I'd heard that Kirby, Ditko, and others got kind of screwed by the company but WHOA did they basically get treated like crap. I do wish that the book had included some images (maybe as chapter headings) because I had to do some Googling so I cou
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An exhaustive and fascinating look at a dysfunctional family, basically.
This is absolutely fascinating and a dense/action-packed history of Marvel - a must-read for comic fans.
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