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Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book.
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The spectacular exhibition catalog, Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes, celebrates 80 years of Marvel history with original comics pages, amazing sculptures, artifacts, original commissions, panoramic hallways and interactive displays. Marvel Comics and Marvel Studio Films are not only the enduring voices of the Super Heroes themselves, but also the diverse visions of Marvel's writers, artists, actors and filmmakers. The catalog features legendary comic...
10) Greatest battles
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When Super Heroes battle their foes they need to put their amazing powers into practice. Learn exactly what happens when our heroes come up against deadly enemies in the battle to fight crime and evil.
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"With the rise of new creators who emphasized their own individual voices while also focusing on their characters' inner lives, Marvel Comics in the 1970s laid the groundwork for the next decade's breakthroughs, expanding our sense of what the comics medium can do and what the superhero genre makes possible"--
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"In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. Their "comix," spelled that way to distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries, presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies...
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"The massive impact that comics have had on our culture becomes more and more clear every day, from the critically acclaimed musical Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking comic, to the dozens of superhero films hitting cinemas every year. What is it that makes comics so special? What can this unique art form do that others can't? In Comics for Grownups, comics scholar Hillary Chute reveals the history of comics, underground comics (or...
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"As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as deep as this long awaited anthology underscores. Liesa Mignogna the VP, Editorial Director at Simon Pulse and editor of this anthology can expound on the virtues of Batman (her wedding was even Batman-themed) but it's her retelling of incredibly harrowing yet ultimately inspiring encounters with The Dark Knight over the years, as she struggled to coexist...
19) Ultimate X-men
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Provides an overview of the history of the X-Men comics by outlining the characters and their storylines, discussing heroes and villains such as Cyclops, Magneto, Havok, Jubilee, Bishop, Wolverine, and Maggott.
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Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the New York Times book review, and comics historian and children's literature specialist Stephen Weiner explains the phenomenon in this groundbreaking book-the first history of graphic novels. From the agonizing Holocaust vision of Art Spiegelman's Maus to the teenage angst of Dan Clowes's Ghost World, this study enters the heart of the graphic novel revolution....