Author: Douglas WolkWinner of the Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice

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 sixty years of American culturefrom a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the taleThe superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are 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 yearsa 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 dont know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.