The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era's conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman's publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic...

The story of how Superman's creators fought for years to receive proper credit and compensation.

How 9/11 fundamentally changed how comic books are written and superheroes are portrayed.

Jack Kirby and Stan Lee changed comics forever by inventing Marvel characters.

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