Marvel Comics In The 1960s: An Issue-By-Issue Field Guide To A Pop Culture Phenomenon - Softcover

Comtois, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605490164 ISBN 13: 9781605490168

Verlag: TwoMorrows Publishing, 2009

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• After being relegated to the realm of children's literature for the first 25years of its history, the comic book industry experienced an unexpectedflowering in the early 1960s. A celebration of that emergence, Marvel Comicsin the 1960s: An Issue-by-Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenonpresents a step-by-step look at how a company that had the reputation of beingone of the least creative in a generally moribund industry, emerged as one ofthe most dynamic, slightly irreverent, and downright original contributions toan era when pop-culture, from Tom Wolfe to Andy Warhol, emerged as the dominantforce in the artistic life of America.
• In scores of handy, easy-to-reference entries, Marvel Comics in the1960s takes the reader from the legendary company's first fumblingbeginnings as helmed by savvy editor/writer Stan Lee (aided by such artists asJack Kirby and Steve Ditko), to the full maturity of its wild, colorful, offbeatgrandiosity. With the history of Marvel Comics in the 1960s divided into fourdistinct phases, author Pierre Comtois explains just how Lee, Kirby, Ditko, et.al. created a line of comic books that, while grounded in the traditionalelements of panel-to-panel storytelling, broke through the juvenile mindset of alow brow industry and provided a tapestry of full-blown, pop-cultureicons.

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Pierre V. Comtois has been the editor and publisher of Fungi, the Magazine of Fantasy and Weird Fiction since 1984 and has had a number of books released by numerous publishers including Goat Mother and Others by Chaosium Fiction in 2015, A Well Ordered Universe by Desert Breeze Publishers in 2016, and three volumes dealing with Marvel Comics including Marvel Comics in the 1980s: An Issue by Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon, Marvel Comics in the 1970s, and Marvel Comics in the 1980s by Twomorrows Pubs in 2015. More recent releases include Scheduled for Extinction, a science fiction novel from Desert Breeze and Talismanic, a horror novel from Rogue Phoenix Press. Comtois has contributed fiction to many small press magazines over the years including various Chaosium Books anthologies. The author has also written a number of other books including novels such as Strange Company and Sometimes a Warm Rain Falls; non-fiction such as Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor; and short story collections such as The Way the Future Was and The Portable Pierre V. Comtois. Comtois has also found the time to contribute non-fiction articles to such magazines as World War II, America's Civil War, Wild West, and Military History, many of which were collected in Hazardous History. For more information visit www.pierrevcomtois.com

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After being relegated to the realm of children's literature for the first 25 years of its history, the comic book industry experienced an unexpected flowering in the early 1960s. A celebration of that emergence, Marvel Comics in the 1960s: An Issue-by-Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon takes the reader from the legendary company's first fumbling beginnings as helmed by savvy editor/writer Stan Lee (aided by such artists as Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko), to the full maturity of its wild, colorful, offbeat grandiosity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TwoMorrows Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1605490164
• ISBN 13: 9781605490168
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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