MARVEL Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics By Introduction By Stan Lee
Reviews
I don't even like comic books, but I was
completely enthralled by this book. The hefty 300 pages of high clay-content,
color-saturated pages with over 700 illustrations and detailed text covers the
50-year history of the canonical comic books company which later became one of
the industry's greatest innovators. Here there be artists highly skilled at
depicting mayhem with clarity and precision, and writers who unerringly touch
the (popular) collective unconscious. In addition to being highly praised within
the comic book community, this book has also received rave reviews from
mainstream magazines such as Newsday and People. The strongest impression one gets from this
commemorative album is of the extraordinary skill with which Marvel Comics has
hopped on the bandwagon throughout its 50-plus-year history. Timley Publications
(Marvel's original name) started publishing superhero comics after Superman and
Batman became prominent in the late 1930s (and stopped when the genre lost
popularity after WW II), and romance and horror comics after competitors Prize
Publications and EC Comics, respectively, popularized those genres in the late
1940s/early 1950s. When DC Comics's Justice League of America repopularized
super-heroes, Marvel inaugurated its famous line of superhero comics, starting
with The Fantastic Four in 1961. Daniels ( Living in Fear: The History of Horror
in the Mass Media ) lays to rest the myth that Marvel publisher Lee (whose
introduction is written in hyperbolic, adjective- and alliteration-laden prose)
was the sole creator of those 1960s superheroes, which was Marvel's position
until others in the field pushed to give proper credit to the artists who worked
with Lee, especially Jack Kirby. The book does a fine job of documenting
Marvel's overlooked pre-1961 background and is beautifully illustrated. -- Publisher's Weekly
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