Print this page
The Secret History of Marvel Comics

The Secret History of Marvel Comics

Hardback (28 Nov 2013)

Not available for sale

Includes delivery to the United States

Out of stock

This service is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Check stock

Publisher's Synopsis

Everyone knows that Marvel Comics is home to legendary super-heroes as Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Iron Man. But Marvel comics has a rather different secret history hidden in those well-known franchise empires. This fascinating collection digs back to the 1930s when Marvel wasn't just a comic-book company. Owner Martin Goodman had interests in a publishing world that lead to production of lurid and sensationalistic short stories and magazines featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, as well as gossipy scandal sheets.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606995525
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 300
Weight: 1106g
Height: 260mm
Width: 185mm
Spine width: 28mm

We recommend

$1.38off

Beauty and the Beast

Sally Morgan (author...

Hardback
Published 02 Sep 2021

Save $1.38

  • RRP $19.27
  • $17.89
Add to basket

$0.62off

Asterix and the Griffin

Jean-Yves Ferri (aut...

Hardback
Published 21 Oct 2021

Save $0.62

  • RRP $15.41
  • $14.79
Add to basket

$1.96off

Blistering Barnacles

Albert Algoud (autho...

Hardback
Published 11 Nov 2021

Save $1.96

  • RRP $16.69
  • $14.73
Add to basket

$1.53off

The Best of Matt 2023

Matt (artist)

Paperback
Published 12 Oct 2023

Save $1.53

  • RRP $11.55
  • $10.02
Add to basket
Mind Full Creative

Radim Malinic

Paperback
Published 24 Oct 2023

  • $23.10
Add to basket

$2.58off

Giles

Giles (artist)

Paperback
Published 07 Sep 2023

Save $2.58

  • RRP $19.27
  • $16.69
Add to basket

$2.61off

Illustrators' Sketchbooks

Martin Salisbury (ed...

Hardback
Published 19 Oct 2023

Save $2.61

  • RRP $38.56
  • $35.95
Add to basket

$0.97off

Cute Chibi Animals

Phoebe Im

Paperback
Published 16 Feb 2021

Save $0.97

  • RRP $19.27
  • $18.30
Add to basket

$6.06off

H-Girl

Hisasi (illustrator)

Paperback
Published 05 Oct 2023

Save $6.06

  • RRP $37.26
  • $31.20
Add to basket

$2.35off

The Official Easy Illustration Guide

Mika Fujisawa (autho...

Paperback
Published 23 Nov 2023

Save $2.35

  • RRP $14.12
  • $11.77
Add to basket