{"product_id":"9780061992100","title":"Marvel Comics","description":"By: Sean Howe     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, \u003cem\u003eMarvel Comics\u003c\/em\u003e 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 WWII veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span, \u003cem\u003eMarvel Comics\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":47320801673443,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780061992100","price":168.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":47320801870051,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780061992117","price":124.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780061992100.jpg?v=1760354257","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9780061992100","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}