Download or read book Terrors and Marvels written by Tom Shachtman and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dreadful global conflagration known as the Second World War was more than the clashing of great armies on bloody battlefields. A different kind of war was being waged in the secret laboratories on both sides of the conflict -- a war that would alter the course and determine the outcome of the bitter hostilities, forever changing our world and future. In a stunning amalgam of science and history, Tom Shachtman, the critically acclaimed author of Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold and The Phony War, 1939-1940, gives us a riveting chronicle of World War II's forgotten combatants: the engineers, physicists, chemists, and academics whose contributions to the war effort were as important as the noble sacrifices of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who bravely risked their lives. While it is a widely accepted fact that America's development and employment of the atomic bomb ended the Pacific struggle -- and that the failure of Hitler's scientists to develop their own A-bomb helped to doom Germany -- little note has been made of the other remarkable scientific accomplishments of this dark and terrible epoch. Beginning with a fascinating overview of the Depression-era struggle to establish scientific and military alliances that would ultimately enable the Allies to catch up to the Axis's early dominance, Terrors and Marvels offers an eye-opening history of the furious battles for technological superiority covertly waged by the world's most brilliant minds. From the creation of faster, deadlier jets and rockets to the development of biological, chemical, and electronic warfare -- from astonishing advances in medical science to breakthroughs in radar and decoding -- the incredible successes and failures that occurred in top-secret facilities around the world in the early 1940s never made headlines but often determined triumph and defeat. Here, also, are the intensely human stories of the architects of the terrifying war machines -- men and women of rare intelligence and integrity torn by the conflicting demands of conscience and country, haunted by their roles in the use and abuse of powerful science. Edifying, enthralling, startling, and sobering, Terrors and Marvels is a masterful work that sheds light on the astonishing achievements of a remarkable few and the great and terrible technology that swung the pendulum of victory in the Allies' direction.
Download or read book Deadpool Classic Vol 23 written by Cullen Bunn and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Deadpool & The Mercs For Money (2016a) #1-5, Deadpool & The Mercs For Money (2016b) #1-8 And Deadpool: Back In Black #1-5. When Deadpool cashes in by franchising out his look, Stingray, Masacre, Solo, Foolkiller, Terror and Slapstick suit up as the Mercs for Money! But theyre all about to learn that Deadpool is a terrible boss, and the risky missions Wade assigns just arent worth the cash hes (barely) paying! Before long the M4M are revolting, and a new squad forms with Domino calling the shots! Then, remember back during the original Secret Wars, when Deadpool found the symbiotic costume that would later bond with Spider-Man? No? Well, the costume remembers and months later when Spidey rejects it, the costume tracks down DP again! Witness an untold story from Wade Wilsons past as Deadpool goes back in black!
Download or read book Tales of Terror A Graphix Book Marvel s Rocket and Groot written by Amanda Deibert and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Marvel's fan-favorites Rocket and Groot in this delightfully spooky graphic novel adventure! Determined to pull off another (not so) successful heist, Rocket and Groot find themselves trapped in the forest with a mysterious cloaked figure. The problem? They can't actually leave the woods until they tell the scariest story ever heard. Zombie aliens? Not scary enough. Bloodthirsty bugs? Nope, not good enough either. It isn't until the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy arrive that Rocket and Groot even stand a chance! Join the Guardians of the Galaxy in this hilarious (and spooky) Graphix adventure! It's perfect for young fans of the beloved Marvel characters.
Download or read book All of the Marvels written by Douglas Wolk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale “Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolk’s work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all.” —Junot Díaz, New York Times Book Review The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, as Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, and still growing. The Marvel story is a gigantic mountain smack in the middle of contemporary culture. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. Yet not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing—nobody’s supposed to. So, of course, that’s what Wolk did: he read all 27,000+ comics that make up the Marvel Universe thus far, from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown. And then he made sense of it—seeing into the ever-expanding story, in its parts and as a whole, and seeing through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In Wolk’s hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years, from the atomic night terrors of the Cold War to the technocracy and political division of the present day—a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders. As a work of cultural exegesis, this is sneakily significant, even a landmark; it’s also ludicrously fun. Wolk sees fascinating patterns—the rise and fall of particular cultural aspirations, and of the storytelling modes that conveyed them. He observes the Marvel story’s progressive visions and its painful stereotypes, its patches of woeful hackwork and stretches of luminous creativity, and the way it all feeds into a potent cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. This is a huge treat for Marvel fans, but it’s also a revelation for readers who don’t know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.
Download or read book Strange Terrors written by William Ekgren and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Terrors was a pre-comic code horror comic series. Popular but short lived, this series was published by St. John publications who at one time was a giant of the comic book industry. St. John Publications was an American publisher of magazines and comic books. During its short existence (1947-58), St. John's comic books established several industry firsts. Founded by Archer St. John (1904-55), the firm was located in Manhattan at 545 Fifth Avenue. After the St. John comic books came to an end in 1958, the company continued to publish its magazine line into the next decade. This book has been image enhanced to give the reader a comic as it was, freshly published more then fifty years ago and contains stories from two complete issues.
Download or read book Marvel Comics Civil War and the Age of Terror written by Kevin Michael Scott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvel Comics has an established tradition of addressing relevant real-life issues facing the American public. With the publication of Civil War (2006-2007), a seven-issue crossover storyline spanning the Marvel universe, they focused on contemporary anxieties such as terrorism and threats to privacy and other civil liberties. This collection of new essays explores the Civil War series and its many tie-in titles from the perspectives of history, political science, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, law and education. The contributors provide a close reading of the series' main theme--the appropriate balance between freedom and security--and discuss how that balance affects citizenship, race, gender and identity construction in 21st-century America.
Download or read book All of the Marvels written by Douglas Wolk and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After 9 11 written by Sid Jacobson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle.
Download or read book The World of Marvel Comics written by Andrew J. Friedenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the history and long-lasting influence of Marvel Comics, this book explores the ways Marvel’s truly unique comic book world reflects real world issues and controversies alongside believable, psychologically-motivated characters. The book examines a decades-long dual focus on both tight-knit continuity and real-world fidelity that makes the Marvel Universe a unique entity amongst imaginary worlds. Although there have been many books and articles that analyze each of these aspects of the Marvel Universe, the unique focus of this book is on how those two aspects have interwoven over the course of Marvel’s history, and the ways in which both have been used as storytelling engines that have fueled the entire imaginary world of Marvel Comics. Andrew J. Friedenthal has crafted a groundbreaking, engaging, and thoughtful examination of how this particular story world combines intricate world-building with responsiveness to real world events, which will be of interest to scholars and enthusiasts of not just comics studies, but also the fields of transmedia studies and imaginary worlds.
Download or read book Black Terror Vol 2 3 written by Max Bemis and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being born with the memories of a life you haven’t lived yet, a life of crime fighting and adventuring, only to find out that no one believes you and, honestly, couldn’t care less. This is the story of Black Terror’s trusted sidekick…TIM! (It’s just Tim.)
Download or read book All New Ultimates Vol 1 written by Michael Fiffe and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects All-New Ultimates #1-6.
Download or read book Terror Inc Apocalypse Soon Tpb written by David Lapham and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ol' Skullface sings again! Our charming Mr. Terror - the cursed, undead, rotting, immortal entrepreneur - is back in action! Brutally ripping off his own limbs and "borrowing" other people's body parts comes in so very handy for the lucrative purposes of assassination, espionage, and other sticky situations. Business is truly recession-proof... but is it plague-proof? Terror better hope so when he agrees to recover a weaponized virus from Middle Eastern terrorists - just one of those odd jobs the unique Mr. Terror is so well suited for. Writer David Lapham (Stray Bullets) brings you another bloody, gruesome, hilarious, ultraviolent adventure in the MAX vein, with jaw-dropping art by Koi Turnbull (Fathom)! Collects Terror, Inc.- Apocalypse Soon #1-5.
Download or read book Avengers Assemble written by Terence McSweeney and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel cinematic universe, Terence McSweeney asks, "Why has the superhero genre reemerged so emphatically in recent years?" In an age where people have stopped going to the cinema as frequently as they used to, they returned to it in droves for the superhero film. What is it about these films that has resonated with audiences all around the globe? Are they just disposable pop culture artifacts or might they have something interesting to say about the fears and anxieties of the world we live in today? Beginning with Iron Man in 2008, this study provocatively explores both the cinematic and the televisual branches of the series across ten dynamic and original chapters from a diverse range of critical perspectives which analyse their status as an embodiment of the changing industrial practices of the blockbuster film and their symbolic potency as affective cultural artifacts that are profoundly immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era.
Download or read book The Preacher s Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament Jeremiah written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The preacher s commentary on the Book of Jeremiah written by William Harvey- Jellie and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zombie Terrors written by Frank Forte and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over 15 flesh-eating tales that shock and horrify, Asylum Press presents a giant flesh-rotting collection of all-new zombie tales, featuring an international cast of artistic talent. Stories include: Spawn artist Simon Kudranski's The Barber, a tale of the undead and the Mob; Creature Converts, in which a cat lady's feline friends develop a taste for the flesh; and Feast, in which a gangster's taste for a delicacy becomes his end.
Download or read book The Horror The Horror written by Jim Trombetta and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Censored out of existence by Congress in the 1950s, rare comic book images--many of which have been rarely seen since they were first issued--are now revealed once again in all of their eye-popping inventive outrageousness. Original.
