"Marvel": Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comic

by StanLee (Introduction), Les Daniels (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $10.04

  For over 50 years, Marvel comics has been the world's leading publisher of comic books. This book is the fascinating story of Marvel , beginning with the invention of the comic book and the discovery of Marvel's formula for success with the launch of two offbeat super heroes, the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch. Captain America, introduced nine months before Pearl Harbor, immediately became one of the best-selling comic books of all time. In the 1960s Marvel restyled its heroes as complex, trouble figures in a chaotic modern world. Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and Spiderman, all commanded the fierce loyalty of a new generation of fans.