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2014
Overview
Superheroes -- they're just like us! In a new commemorative book titled \"Marvel Comics: 75 Years of Cover Art\" (DK Publishing; $50), editor and author Alan Cowsill describes the groundbreaking approach that allowed the company to humanize its superheroes. Starting in the early 1960s, he says, characters were allowed to grapple not just with supervillains but with everyday problems such as paying rent and navigating complicated love lives. Marvel also began incorporating current events into its narratives, which allowed Spider-Man, for instance, to swing through the campus demonstrations of the protest era. The book includes 500 covers, ranging from the late 1930s to the present day. \"Between all those, you have grit and realism,\" says Mr. Cowsill.
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Dow Jones & Company Inc
