MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY
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"A WILD-RIDE ACCOUNT" —The Hollywood Reporter
"EPIC" —The New York Times
"INDISPENSABLE" —Los Angeles Times
"DEFINITIVE" —The Wall Street Journal
"SCINTILLATING" —Publishers Weekly
“FASCINATING” —GQ
"AUTHORITATIVE" —Kirkus Reviews
"GRIPPING" —Rolling Stone
"PRICELESS" —Booklist
"A MUST FOR ANY SUPERHERO OR POP-CULTURE FAN" —NY Post
"ESSENTIAL" —The Daily Beast
"A SUPERPOWERED MUST-READ" —USA Today
"REVELATORY" —The Miami Herald
"AS FULL OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS, TRAGIC REVERSALS AND UNLIKELY PLOT TWISTS AS ANY BOOK IN THE MARVEL CANON" —Newsday
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(Top) Art by Bill Everett, 1955
(Bottom) Art by Andy Warhol, 1963
Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, and John Severin, as depicted by Severin.
Chamber of Darkness #5. Art by Jack Kirby and Bill Everett.
Atlantis Blues
The Sub-Mariner’s family and friends used to have the same skin color as him—why did that change?
See how the melanin levels in Atlanteans have changed over the years, here.
Inspecting the shower-room, something in the last stall attracts his attention, and he pauses…. Wakka chikka wakka chikka. Marvel Mystery Comics #29, March 1942.
My Love #16. Art by Gene Colan and Bill Everett. Words by Gary Friedrich.
My Love #16. Art by Gene Colan and Bill Everett. Words by Jean Thomas.
With apologies to Goethe…
Strange Tales #147, August 1966. Art by Bill Everett. Words by Stan Lee.
Crowdsourcing the Latest Lingo, the Merry Marvel Way!
Sexiest Marvel comic of all time?
Gene Colan and Bill Everett’s Black Widow, from AMAZING ADVENTURES #5, 1971. When the comic was printed, the contours of the costume were slightly more modest.
Colan and Everett: Putting the va-va-voom into FOOM!
![How Black Widow ended up with Daredevil:“I had come back from a trip to San Francisco,” recalled Gerry Conway, “where I’d taken a ton of photos and fallen in love with the city. I wanted to shake up Daredevil and make it my own. I’d written a Black Widow story, plotted by Roy [Thomas], that Gene Colan had drawn. I was so taken with the character, and Gene’s approach, that I put her in Daredevil as a guest star. There seemed to be some natural chemistry between them. I think Gene’s Black Widow was comics’ first empowered, sexy babe.”
(From an interview conducted for Marvel Comics: The Untold Story)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc56kwr6QW1qzoglfo1_250.png)
How Black Widow ended up with Daredevil:
“I had come back from a trip to San Francisco,” recalled Gerry Conway, “where I’d taken a ton of photos and fallen in love with the city. I wanted to shake up Daredevil and make it my own. I’d written a Black Widow story, plotted by Roy [Thomas], that Gene Colan had drawn. I was so taken with the character, and Gene’s approach, that I put her in Daredevil as a guest star. There seemed to be some natural chemistry between them. I think Gene’s Black Widow was comics’ first empowered, sexy babe.”
(From an interview conducted for Marvel Comics: The Untold Story)
