Author: RAPHAEL, JORDAN & TOM SPURGEON
Title: Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
Description: Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1556525419. B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; xv,304 pages; Soft cover is blue withyellow lettering. NEW book. Illustrated with 30 b/w photographs. "The face of Marvel Comics and the cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and hundreds of other colorful heroes, Lee is known as a dazzling writer, skilled editor, and a relentless self-promoter, a credit hog and a huckster---a man in equal parts PT Barnum and Walt Disney. This book, based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extenisve archival research, is at once a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of Lee and his many accomplisments. " Sources; index.. New .

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