Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC

As an avid '80s comic book reader, this book brought it all back If I say to you "Spiderman #252 was very hard to find, Dreadstar was Jim Starlin's crowning achievement, and Omega Men was a superviolent X-Men knockoff" and that sentence meant something to you and wasn't total gibberish then you will love this book. If the sentence was gibberish, but you're a general comic book fan, you'll probably still like it. If you think I'm a silly nerdlinger, then you probably won. Bam! Pow! DC vs. Marvel Divascribe Fans of superheroes now can watch their idols on screen, but in earlier decades you had to read comic books to get their stories. Two publishers -- DC and Marvel -- dominated the market from the early 1960s onward. But as you might imagine, there were almost as many battles between the two companies for readership as there were between their superhero characters.DC became popular during the Great Depressio. The amazing tale of DC versus Marvel I enjoyed every time I sat down to read this book. It is a tale of the historical competition between Marvel and DC comics. From the beginning at the invention of the super hero itself to the modern day battle for the best movies. Stan Lee is front and center in this tale as he took Marvel from the severe under dog to the dominant force in the comics industry. I was astounded that Stan Lee was already with

But it has never completely disappeared, and it simmers on a low boil to this day. Slugfest, the first book to tell the history of this epic rivalry into a single, juicy narrative, is the story of the greatest corporate rivalry never told. For more than 50 years, Marvel and DC have been locked in an epic war, tirelessly trading punches and trying to do to each other what Batman regularly does to the Joker's face. It is also an alternate history of the superhero, told through the lens of these two publishers.Slugfest will com

He has written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles for everyone from Esquire and USA Today to O, The Oprah Magazine.. Reed Tucker is a freelance journalist and author who writes mostly about pop culture and entertainment, most recently as a staff features writer at the New York Post

"A smart, blow-by-blow narrative of the sometimes-friendly, often bitter rivalry between corporate comic-book behemothsA wild haymaker for the masses, perhaps, but a knockout read for capes-and-cowls aficionados."Kirkus