Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501107720 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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He remains Marvel’s chairman emeritus and best-known public representative. With some of the industry’s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, and more, forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. Stan Lee began his career with wartime Timely Comics, and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic book
I would highly recommend this to any Stan Lee / Marvel comic fan. E.Robyn I LOVED this. When I first heard about this book, I ordered it instantly, and then anxiously waited until the mailman dropped it off at my door.I love that the storyline is set up like Stan is giving a talk to a crowd- complete with getting carried away with a story and needing to stop and back up to fill in some details. Throughout the book, I thought that his voice and personality were captured perfectly. You could really feel his positivity, his pain, and his struggle. And of course the artwork was lovely!Favorite line:"As for what I read, it would. Great comic about Stan Lee. Stefaan Van Rossem It's a fun way to bring your memoires in comic-book form but I can't shake the feeling I'm missing something I would have found in a written book. I might be wrong. In any case this book showed me Stan in a different daylight. I found at a lot of things I didn't know about this great man. Definitely worth a read.. It was a birthday present to my son and he Virginia Morrissette It was a birthday present to my son and he says it was fascinating-- It told the other side of the story about the origins of the comics he grew up with.
With some of the industry’s greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, and more, forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. About the Author Stan Lee began his career with wartime Timely Comics, and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in story writing that endures to this day. . He remains Marvel’s chairman emeritus and best-known public representative. After an almost literal lifetime of writing and editing, Lee is now involved in movies and television via his company POV! Entertainment
evil. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he has been the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics, and has brought to life—and into the mainstream—some of the world’s best-known heroes and most infamous villains throughout his career. Moving from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, through his military training films during World War II and the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to the current resurgence in movies, Amazing Fantastic Incredible documents the life of a man and the legacy of an industry and career.This funny, moving, and incredibly honest memoir is a must-have for collectors and fans of comic books and graphic novels of every age.. His stories—filled with superheroes struggling with personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity—added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good vs. In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator