Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related BookThe first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the epic of epicsand to the past sixty years of American culturefrom 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. Wolks work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all. Junot D az, New York Times Book ReviewThe 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 con