Description: MARVEL Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics By Les Daniels Introduction By Stan Lee A Fantastic Gift Idea ! - for a friend - or just for yourself ! Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1991. Hardcover. SIGNED! SIGNED BY STAN LEE! SIGNED! Beautiful, Like New! TRUE First Edition, First Printing! Incredibly, this book is PERSONALLY SIGNED BY STAN LEE directly on the half title page. (NOT signed to anyone) Book is Like New and Unread. No marks. Dust jacket is Like New, NOT price-clipped, in a protective mylar cover. A beautiful copy of this collectible book. Nearly 300 pages, and over 700 high quality, full color illustrations. Book measures approximately 10"x12" and weighs over 4 lbs. A Must Have For Any Stan Lee or Marvel Comics Fan !! ~ A BEAUTIFULLY AUTOGRAPHED, AWESOMELY RARE, FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING FOR COLLECTORS ~ Reviews I don't even like comic books, but I was completely enthralled by this book. The hefty 300 pages of high clay-content, color-saturated pages with over 700 illustrations and detailed text covers the 50-year history of the canonical comic books company which later became one of the industry's greatest innovators. Here there be artists highly skilled at depicting mayhem with clarity and precision, and writers who unerringly touch the (popular) collective unconscious. In addition to being highly praised within the comic book community, this book has also received rave reviews from mainstream magazines such as Newsday and People. The strongest impression one gets from this commemorative album is of the extraordinary skill with which Marvel Comics has hopped on the bandwagon throughout its 50-plus-year history. Timley Publications (Marvel's original name) started publishing superhero comics after Superman and Batman became prominent in the late 1930s (and stopped when the genre lost popularity after WW II), and romance and horror comics after competitors Prize Publications and EC Comics, respectively, popularized those genres in the late 1940s/early 1950s. When DC Comics's Justice League of America repopularized super-heroes, Marvel inaugurated its famous line of superhero comics, starting with The Fantastic Four in 1961. Daniels ( Living in Fear: The History of Horror in the Mass Media ) lays to rest the myth that Marvel publisher Lee (whose introduction is written in hyperbolic, adjective- and alliteration-laden prose) was the sole creator of those 1960s superheroes, which was Marvel's position until others in the field pushed to give proper credit to the artists who worked with Lee, especially Jack Kirby. The book does a fine job of documenting Marvel's overlooked pre-1961 background and is beautifully illustrated. -- Publisher's Weekly Stan Lee is the creator of SpiderMan and the force behind Marvel Comics. Please Check out my other items! *** FREE PRIORITY MAIL SHIPPING TO U.S. RESIDENTS *** Shipping & Handling: Standard shipping to U.S. buyers is via USPS Priority Mail and includes insurance. (Estimated delivery time according to USPS is about 2-5 business days.) Express Mail is available upon request for additional fees. No International shipping. Please email questions. All books are padded securely in bubble wrap and boxed to prevent damage. Payments: We accept PayPal. (Please note that if payment is made by echeck, shipping will be delayed until echeck is cleared). All items must be paid for within 5 days or will be re-listed.
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Book Title: Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades
Author: Stan Lee
