Research Catalog

Title

Amazing fantastic incredible : a marvelous memoir / Stan Lee and Peter David and Colleen Doran.

Author

Lee, Stan, 1922-2018

Publication

New York : Touchstone, 2015.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
• URL
• Image

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Details

Additional Authors

• David, Peter (Peter Allen)
• Doran, Colleen, 1963-

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

• Graphic memoir about the career of Stan Lee, the American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
• "In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he has been the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics, and has brought to life--and into the mainstream--some of the world's best-known heroes and most infamous villains throughout his career. His stories--filled with superheroes struggling with personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity--added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good vs. evil. Lee put the human in superhuman and in doing so, created a new mythology for the twentieth century. In this beautifully illustrated graphic memoir--illustrated by celebrated artist Colleen Doran--Lee tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comics. Moving from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, through his military training films during World War II and the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to the current resurgence in movies, Amazing Fantastic Incredible documents the life of a man and the legacy of an industry and career"--

Subjects

• Comic books, strips, etc
• Authors, American
• Graphic novels
• 1900-1999
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Lee, Stan, 1922-2018 > Comic books, strips, etc
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc
• United States
• Comic books, strips, etc > United States > 20th century > History and criticism > Comic books, strips, etc
• Autobiographical comics

Genre/Form

• Autobiographical comics.
• Comic books, strips, etc.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Graphic novels.

Note

• "Written by Stan Lee and Peter David with contributions from POW! Entertainment. Art by Colleen Doran"--Title page verso.

Audience (note)

• 640

Call Number

JFF 18-1568

ISBN

• 9781501107726
• 1501107720

LCCN

2016288288

OCLC

904813237

Author

Lee, Stan, 1922-2018, author.

Title

Amazing fantastic incredible : a marvelous memoir / Stan Lee and Peter David and Colleen Doran.

Publisher

New York : Touchstone, 2015.

Edition

First Touchstone hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Comics writers

Americans

Men

Study Program

Accelerated Reader 4.3.

Reading Counts! 4.7.

Audience

640 Lexile.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

URL

Image

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

David, Peter (Peter Allen), author.

Doran, Colleen, 1963- artist.

Research Call Number

JFF 18-1568