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The secret history of Marvel Comics : Jack Kirby and the moonlighting artists at Martin Goodman's empire / by Blake Bell and Michael J. Vassallo.

Title
The secret history of Marvel Comics : Jack Kirby and the moonlighting artists at Martin Goodman's empire / by Blake Bell and Michael J. Vassallo.
Author
Bell, Blake.
Publication
Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2013.

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Vassallo, Michael J.
Description
300 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.
Summary
A tribute to the lesser-known publications by Marvel Comics reproduces rare art from the golden era of the 1930s and 1940s and describes owner Martin Goodman's creation of lurid, sensational, and sexually charged "pulp" stories.
Subject
  • Kirby, Jack
  • Marvel Comics Group > History
  • 1900-1999
  • Comic books, strips, etc. > History > United States > 20th century
  • Cartoonists > United States > Biography
  • Superheroes > United States > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
  • History.
Note
  • Includes bibliographic references (p. 289-300).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The way it began -- When lawyers clash -- Brand? Echh! -- Drowning the newsstands -- Torture porn -- A house divided -- The last laugh -- Artist profiles.
ISBN
  • 9781606995525 (hbk.)
  • 1606995529 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 792747847
  • SCSB-11941618
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library