All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

ISBN: 0735222185

Author: Wolk, Douglas

Condition: New

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 LethemWinner of the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related BookA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceThe 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 taleThe superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are 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 dont know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.An indespensable handbook. -Forbes