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This is the incredible 70 year story of Marvel Comics. For comic book fans everywhere, Marvel's fascinating story explored and explained, decade by decade, year by year, and month by month. Everything is covered, from the company's beginnings as Timely Comics in the late 1930s to the founding of the Marvel Universe of Super Heroes in the 60s, right up to the present day. Learn all about the birth of key Marvel Super Heroes from the X-Men, Spider-Man and Hulk to The Fantastic Four. Discover all about their extraordinary comic book debuts, the geniuses that invented them, the crucial events behind their creation and their continuing influence on the world today via comic books, TV series and blockbuster movies. Packed with stunning original comic book art and covers, this is a vibrant and visually spectacular look at Marvel Comics spanning seven tumultuous decades.
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About the Author
Peter Sanderson is a comics historian and critic, who was Marvel's first official archivist. He is the author of DK's best selling X-Men: The Ultimate Guide and co-author of DK's The Marvel Encyclopedia and Marvel Chronicle. Peter was also one of the main writers of the first four versions of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Matthew Manning has written numerous comics for a variety of publishers, including Marvel and DC. His work has appeared in the pages of The Batman Strikes!, Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century, Justice League Adventures, Spider-Man Unlimited, Looney Tunes, and Marvel Romance Redux. For DK, he has penned Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon, the updated versions of Spider-Man: The Ultimate Guide and Hulk: The Incredible Guide, the children's reader Marvel Heroes: Greatest Battles, and contributed to Marvel Chronicle. Manning currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife Dorothy, and a collection of comics much too large for any normal-size apartment.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great gift!,
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This review is from: Marvel Chronicle (Hardcover)
I got this for my brother and, when I was looking through it while wrapping it, I was seriously tempted to just give it to myself. I also think it would make for a great coffee table book if you like to show off your love of Marvel comics to like-minded friends. It's got a fantastic look and layout! It's even got a fairly comprehensive index! Within 24 hours of unwrapping it, my brother was already taking pleasure in pointing out interesting facts that he'd discovered in the book. It's also fairly recent, covering most of the important Marvel events in 2008 and prior, only missing the very end of 2008, when it was published. That meant there was only a year of events missing when I gave this as a gift for Christmas, 2009. The quick skimming and select reading that I did do of the book suggested it was giving a fair treatment, showing all of Marvel's successes and failures over the years, though it seemed to gloss over any of the unpopular things that happened in the recent years since Joey Q. took over.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Marvel Chronicle,
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This review is from: Marvel Chronicle (Hardcover)
Great book, with a lot of info and vantage pics. If you're a Marvel fan it is a good purchase.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
My son's best christmas book gift,
By Sylvie Trudeau "Sylvie" (Montreal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marvel Chronicle (Hardcover)
what a surprise for him to receive that gift, he always gets at least one book in one of his Christmas presents. And he was in heaven, cannot stop telling us what he had found out.
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