Former Marvel (and DC) editor Robert Greenberger read Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story and wasn’t particularly impressed:
Howe’s book breezily takes us from inception through the last year or so, but unevenly weights his sections so seems fascinated by the 1970s second generation of Marvel creators, which matches the first decade of his life… The entire final five years or so reads like a rough draft and merited far more attention, explaining how the company’s stability and growth potential was catnip to Disney, desperate for that very demographic it lacked.
As I’ve said before, I really enjoyed Howe’s book, but Greenberger’s criticisms aren’t entirely off-base; part of what I loved about it was the focus on the 1970s – An era of Marvel I particularly like – and I did think it tailed off towards the end, slightly (Something that I put down to my familiarity with the material, I admit). Greenberger’s original post goes into a lot more detail about the most obvious omissions; you should go check it out.
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