Book Report on MARVEL YEAR BY YEAR HISTORY by Tom DeFalco.
I thought it was good.
It starts out when Marin Goodman created the comic publishing company TIMELY
PRESS in 1939. Somehow Stan Lee was in
on it near the start. I don’t remember
reading it in the book but I think I read elsewhere Stan was Martin’s nephew.
It appears that for the first thee or more decades Stan Lee
did most the writing and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko did the illustrating.
Each chapter starts off with the main front page headlines
for the year, with I thought was interesting, which told the reader what was on
their minds on any time period. Many
names I knew from my MAD frame of mind such as Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Al
Jaffee, Marie Severin, her brother John, and Sergio Arafgones.
Also of interest is Mark Bagley, who does SPIDERMAN for
MARVEL. I am no expert on the arty
action of superheroes but I think he is very good.
I enjoyed the book, finding it very informative of the
comicbook world. The only gripe I have
is that I read it on Kendal, which the illustrations were in black &
white. I think the colors of action
heroes would make it much better.
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