All of the Marvels

An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics

All of the Marvels
Douglas Wolk
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Hardback
h234 x 153mm - 352pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781788169288
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Every schoolchild recognizes their protagonists: the Avengers, the X-Men, your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. The superhero comics that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 make up the biggest self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages and counting. Eighteen of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time are based on it. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing - nobody' s supposed to. But Douglas Wolk did. In All Of The Marvels, a critic and superfan takes on the superhero epic to end all epics. What he finds is a magic mirror of the past 60 years, from the atomic terrors of the Cold War to the political divides of our present. Wolk teases out Marvel' s mixture of progressive visions and painful stereotypes, its regrettable moments as well as its flights of luminous creativity. The result is an irresistible travel-guide to the magic mountain at the heart of popular culture.
Some of us are haunted by the memory of a childhood glimpse of some vast evocative dream; others exasperated by the slick iconography that has taken over our screens, wallets, and eyeballs. If you' re like me, it' s both. For all of us, Douglas Wolk' s naked dive into the Marvel source code is a revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma, and replenishing in its loving specificity. As an account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology out of the dodgiest of commercial occasions, it' s also a testament, and a tribute. Like Greil Marcus in Mystery Train or Manny Farber in Negative Space, Wolk pushes aside paraphrase to free up an encounter with what' s been there all along, homegrown art -- Jonathan Lethem What sounds like a madman' s quest turns out to be a deeply emotional hero' s journey. The best work yet from the best writer about the medium of comics -- Brian K. Vaughan, author * Saga *
Douglas Wolk is the author of the Eisner Award-winning Reading Comics and the host of the Marvel-themed podcast The Voice of Latveria. He has written about comic books, graphic novels, pop music and technology for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Pitchfork.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781788169288
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 352

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