Marvel

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Summary: Make Mine Marvel!
Review: First thing: I'm a comic fan. Second thing: I'm mostly a DC fan.

But, looking for a whole understanding of the comic history I ordered this book, and found an excellent time reading it!.

It covers the story of Marvel Comics, its characters, its writers, artists, colorists, everything. Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, John Romita, Sal Buscema, Roy Thomas, Frank Miller and several other big names are part of this adventure.

Here you'll find: a Spider-Man memorabilia collector. preliminary sketches of Wolverine, the Punisher, and others. data on every major marvel character.

Plus: reprints of four "hard-to-find" stories.

Besides, this book was written by one of us, a comic lover.

This book, together with its brother "DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comics", must be on the bookshelf of every comic fan.

(I gave it 4 out of 5 stars mostly because is a book not intended for everyone).

Rating:
Summary: Make Mine Marvel!
Review: First thing: I'm a comic fan. Second thing: I'm mostly a DC fan.

But, looking for a whole understanding of the comic history I ordered this book, and found an excellent time reading it!.

It covers the story of Marvel Comics, its characters, its writers, artists, colorists, everything. Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, John Romita, Sal Buscema, Roy Thomas, Frank Miller and several other big names are part of this adventure.

Here you'll find: a Spider-Man memorabilia collector. preliminary sketches of Wolverine, the Punisher, and others. data on every major marvel character.

Plus: reprints of four "hard-to-find" stories.

Besides, this book was written by one of us, a comic lover.

This book, together with its brother "DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comics", must be on the bookshelf of every comic fan.

(I gave it 4 out of 5 stars mostly because is a book not intended for everyone).

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Summary: They are the Greatest Comics!
Review: I am a big fan of Marvel Comics, and I know just about everything there is to know about Marvel's history. Despite this fact, I still learned several things from this book, especially of the early days of Marvel's former name, Timely. I especially loved the section dividers by Romita, Sr., the photos of past Marvel employees, and the scans of classic covers and moments. A great read!

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Summary: They are the Greatest Comics!
Review: I am a big fan of Marvel Comics, and I know just about everything there is to know about Marvel's history. Despite this fact, I still learned several things from this book, especially of the early days of Marvel's former name, Timely. I especially loved the section dividers by Romita, Sr., the photos of past Marvel employees, and the scans of classic covers and moments. A great read!

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Summary: MARVEL;Five Fabulous Decades
Review: I found this a must read.It explores the origins of Marvel Comics like no other book.Included is rare pictures of comics Marvel Comics no#1 to the later 1990'S material.It also shows you the P.T.Burnum Genious of Stan Lee and common sense of what is wanted by the public by founder Martin Goodman.It also shows how the likes of Roy Thomas kept Marvel afloat in latter Silver Age and how hard a job Mark Gruenward tried to survive in the post Yuppie Darth Shooter Marvel-when comic showmanship of Stan the Man had left-taking Marvels Soul with them,without saying much,but implying alot.Rare Namor,FF and Wolverine material is also added in back,along a how too comic lesson.Fun rEADING FOR ALL COMIC FANS.joseph gilbert thompson.maveric comics inc,studios,6142 torresdale avenue,phila,pa,19135.

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Summary: the action behind marvel
Review: i got the book, opened it in my car and spent half an hour fliiping through it until i realized that i had to get to the office...finished it that evening!
i liked the whole concept and found out a lot (!) of interesting information about marvel, the people behind it, the philosophies, the characters.
the book is easy to read and easy to use.
i dropped off one star from the rating because, in the end, it is rather shallow and there were times when i wanted more information but there just wasn't any.
a good read.

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Summary: A darn fine history of Marvel
Review: I think this book is the tops. And the clear, easy design and layout makes this a joy to flip through.

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Summary: JACK! STAN! JOE! GENE! AND FANTASTIC FOUR #51, TOO!!!
Review: MARVEL:FIVE FABULOUS DECADES is a long book with a lot of details that the average comic fan isn't interested in, but what I liked the most about it was the analysis of the work of Jack "The King" Kirby, Stan "The Man" Lee, Gene "The Dean" Colan, and INKER SUPREME Joe Sinnott!

But what made an overwhelming impression on me about this book--and forced me to give it 5 stars!!!--was the surprise appearance of FANTASTIC FOUR #51--"This Man, This Monster"-- right in the middle of the book, a comic book I had never seen before, and probably one of the top 4 FANTASTIC FOUR ISSUES EVER MADE!!!

BUY MARVEL:FIVE FABULOUS DECADES JUST TO GET A COPY OF FANTASTIC FOUR #51!!!

EXCELSIOR!!! Chari Krishnan RESEARCHKING

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Summary: THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE ART
Review: The incredible reprinted art from a lot of old comics makes this book worthwhile. The text is very, very weak.

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Summary: SERIOUS FLAWS
Review: THis book is a very generic portrait of Marvel, with one serious flaw: the book is edited by Marvel itself. This means that the writer, altough a real expert in comic book history, could not deal with all the subjects in a neutral way all the time. So, what we have is, generally, praise after praise for this mighty (with justice) company, but no real insight into their history. Of course, there is not space for such, since the book is crowded with magnific art from various artists and various comics. I think it lacked appendices, which could have lists of Marvel's greates artists, MArvel's greatest selling books, Marvel's greates histories. The book is also clearly outdated, since it was first published in 1992. Since then, there was the "mutiny" from the artists (Silvestri, Jim Lee and McFarlane, amongst others) who left to form their own company; the writer, altough mentions it, doesn't explain why Stan Lee, whose role in the company since 1980 is to supervise adaptations to movies and animated features, permitted such lousy adaptations as THE PUNISHER, for example. It does not touch the fact of how the artists were totally underpaid until Jim Shooter was Editor-In-Chief, nor how Lee permitted one editor after another to resign due to the sheer impossibility of editing 54 books at the same time. All in all, this book is great for the art, but for text PEter Sanderson's work, MARVEK UNIVERSE, is better.