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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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Details
- Additional Authors
- 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.
- Subjects
- 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