![]() ![]() ![]() The complete lack of images (good thing the Marvel characters are so ubiquitous now otherwise, a reader unfamiliar with the publisher's wares might not even know what these guys looked like), the structure of the book and the sudden drying up of people willing to talk trash or gossip around the turn of the century attests to how excited Marvel must have been to learn Howe was writing its untold story. the movie's monstrous success being what gives Howe's book a sort of validating end-point, a raison d'etre to both Lee's decades-long ambition to see Marvel characters on the big screen, and owner after owner's ambition to become very, very rich off the heroes Kirby and company created. X-Men or even that billion-dollar feature Marvel Studios released over the summer. And, in a very real way, Sean Howe's book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story is probably the Marvel story of the year-bigger, more epic and with greater conflict and drama than Fear Itself or Avengers Vs. ![]() The characters who were making Marvel comics were in many ways just as colorful and talented as the characters starring in them the story of Marvel Comics is at least as exciting as any story in Marvel comics. ![]()
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