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All of the marvels A journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told
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- Baker & Taylor
The Eisner Awardâwinning author of Reading Comics and podcast host of Voice of Latveria describes his endeavor to read all 27,000 plus comics that make up the Marvel Universe so far, from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
"The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past 60 years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale. The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, and growing. TheMarvel story is a gigantic mountain, smack in the middle of contemporary culture. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Every schoolchild recognizes its protagonists: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men. 18 of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time are directly based on parts of it. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing--nobody's supposed to. So, of course, that's what Wolk did: he read all 27,000 comics that make up the Marvel universe thus far, fromAlpha Flight to Omega the Unknown. And then he made sense of it: seeing into the ever-expanding story, in its parts and as a coherent whole, and seeing through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In Wolk's hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a funhouse-mirror history of the past 60 years, from the atomic night-terrors of the Cold War to the technocracy and political division of the present day--a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders. As a work of cultural exegesis, this is sneakily significant, even a landmark; it's also ludicrously fun. Looking over close to sixty years of Marvel's comics, Wolk sees fascinating patterns -- the rise and fall of particular cultural aspirations, and of the storytelling modes that conveyed them. He observes the Marvel story's progressive visions and its painful stereotypes, its patches of woeful hackwork and stretches of luminous creativity, and the way they all feed into a potent cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. This is a huge treat for Marvel fans, but it's also a revelation for readers who don't know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels"-- - Penguin Putnam
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comicsâ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the âepic of epicsââand to the past sixty years of American cultureâfrom a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
âThorough, fascinating, and joyfully executed, All of the Marvels is essential reading for fans and scholars alike.â âG. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel)
âA revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma and replenishing in its loving specificity . . . a testament, and a tribute.â âJonathan Lethem
âBrilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolkâs work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all.â âJunot DÃaz, New York Times Book Review
The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961are the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. And Douglas Wolk has read the whole thing.
Wolk sees both into the ever-expanding story and through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In his hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty yearsâa boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders.
A huge treat for Marvel fans, this book is also a revelation for readers who donât know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.