ALL OF MARVELS SC TP (Backorder, Allow 4-5 Weeks)

The Marvel story is a gigantic mountain¸ smack in the middle of contemporary culture. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Every schoolchild recognizes its protagonists: Spider-Man¸ the Avengers¸ the X-Men. 18 of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time are directly based on parts of it. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing-nobody's supposed to. So¸ of course¸ that's what Wolk did: he read all 27¸000 comics that make up the Marvel universe thus far¸ from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown. And then he made sense of it: seeing into the ever-expanding story¸ in its parts and as a coherent whole¸ and seeing through it¸ as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. Looking over close to sixty years of Marvel's comics¸ Wolk sees fascinating patterns and the way they all feed into a potent cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears.