Marvel Comics in the 1970s
eBook - ePub

Marvel Comics in the 1970s

The World inside Your Head

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Marvel Comics in the 1970s

The World inside Your Head

About this book

Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics in the 1980s, Eliot Borenstein reveals a generation of comic book writers whose work at Marvel in the 1970s established their own authorial voice within the strictures of corporate comics.

Through a diverse cast of heroes (and the occasional antihero)—Black Panther, Shang-Chi, Deathlok, Dracula, Killraven, Man-Thing, and Howard the Duck—writers such as Steve Gerber, Doug Moench, and Don McGregor made unprecedented strides in exploring their characters' inner lives. Visually, dynamic action was still essential, but the real excitement was taking place inside their heroes' heads. Marvel Comics in the 1970s highlights the brilliant and sometimes gloriously imperfect creations that laid the groundwork for the medium's later artistic achievements and the broader acceptance of comic books in the cultural landscape today.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface: Secret Origins
  2. A Note on Formatting
  3. Introduction: The Best Marvel Comic of the 1970s
  4. 1. Inside Out: Stan Lee and the Drama of the Visible Self
  5. 2. Everyday Transcendence: Steve Englehart and the Quest for Selfhood
  6. 3. Crouching Tiger, Running Commentary: Doug Moench on the Margins of Marvel
  7. 4. Blood Will Tell: Marv Wolfman’s Tomb of Dracula
  8. 5. Bodies and Words: Don McGregor’s Tortured Romantic Individualism
  9. 6. Subjectivity and Its Discontents: Steve Gerber and the Uses of Disenchantment
  10. Coda: Claremont Rising
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index