Marvel Comics: The Untold Story Audiobook (Free)

The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the very most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history — Marvel Comics – as well as the outsized personalities who produced Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby.

“Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of what sort of couple of weirdoes changed the world…That it is all true is just frosting in the cake.” – about Marvel Comics: The Untold Story Jonathan Lethem

For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories from the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939, Stan Lee, the energetic editor who shepherd the company through thick and thin for many years and Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the business’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Incorporating more than one hundred first interviews with those who worked well behind the scenes at Marvel more than a seventy-year-span, Marvel Comics packages anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people in the cusp of failing created one of the most enduring pop ethnic forces in contemporary America.