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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
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Author:
Douglas Wolk
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
October 12, 2021
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story.
What The Reviewers Say
... [a] brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful attempt to distill it all into a coherent narrative.
Rather than take a linear approach, listing who appeared when and what everyone was up to, chapters follow individual characters through time.
Mr. Wolk is quick to point out that his book is not a syllabus—one of the many charms of this highly enjoyable volume is its spirit of inclusivity: He is against the idea of Marvel as the special province of some grizzled, in-the-know crowd who have followed Marvel stories for most of their lives (a crowd that includes Mr. Wolk himself, who worked in a comic-book shop in the mid-1980s).
This isn’t any kind of definitive atlas, this is a hiking map. Wolk to his credit says as much throughout, maintaining from the beginning that it’s not really designed to be exhaustive - he calls it a 'strange, looping route' designed to lead past numerous trailheads.
