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New PDF release: The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the

By Blake Bell,Michael Vassallo,Various

ISBN-10: 1606995529

ISBN-13: 9781606995525

the key historical past of wonder Comics digs again to the Nineteen Thirties while wonder Comics wasn't only a comic-book generating corporation. wonder Comics proprietor Martin Goodman had tentacles right into a publishing international that may have made that era’s conservative American mom and dad lynch him on his entrance porch. surprise used to be yet a small a part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had began years sooner than he released his first comedian e-book. Goodman ordinarily released lurid and sensationalistic tale books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, that includes sexually-charged detective and romance brief fiction, and megastar gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who used to be generating Captain the United States for eight-year-olds, have been concurrently dipping their feet in either ponds. the key background of surprise Comics tells this parallel tale of 1930s/40s surprise Comics sharing places of work with these Goodman courses now not really healthy for kids. The e-book additionally encompasses a finished exhibit of the art produced for Goodman’s different organizations by means of wonder Comics artists corresponding to Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, invoice Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the superior pulp artists within the box, together with Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and wonder Comics number 1 hide artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines additionally featured disguise tales on celebrities equivalent to Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, in addition to contributions from recognized literary and social figures corresponding to Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.

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