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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Stan Lee holds the art for the cover of Strange Tales #151, 1966.
From the fear-drenched jungles of zombie-haunted Haiti—make way for Brother Voodoo!
A page from the Doctor Strange story in STRANGE TALES #131 by Steve Ditko.
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!
(Panels from Strange Tales #180. Art and words by Jim Starlin; lettering by Tom Orzechowski.)
“We got quite a few things through. I was able to establish inside the WARLOCK series that Pip eats nothing but shit. He not only ate shit, but he worshiped shit. One of his favorite things was coprolite, which was fossilized dinosaur crap. We got away with a lot of things like that. I started talking about certain bodily functions and they caught that.”
—Jim Starlin
Panel from Strange Tales #72, December 1959. Art by Steve Ditko.
Today, on the occasion of Ditko’s 85th birthday, cartoonist Michel Fiffe has written about exchanging letters with, and meeting, Ditko. You can read it here.
NEW YORK COMIC CON REMINDER!
I’ll be at the HarperCollins booth (#1005) on Saturday, October 13, from 11:00 to 11:30 am, next to a stack of copies of MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY. Stop by and say hello!
(Image from StrangeTales #18, May 1953; Art by George Tuska.)
“A Fortune in Beans!” Strange Tales #98, July 1962. Art by Steve Ditko. Words by Stan Lee.
Strange Tales #170, October 1973. Art by Gene Colan and Dan Adkins. Colors by Glynis Wein. Words by Len Wein. Lettering by Charlotte Jetter.
Millie the Model #107, March 1962. Art by Stan Goldberg. Words by Stan Lee.
