Before The Incredibles, there were Batman and Superman, Spiderman and Captain America... Gerard Jones' book tells the story of the birth of the superheroes!
Gerard Jones is a comics historian and comic and screen writer. His writing credits include Batman, Spiderman and Pokemon. He lives in San Francisco, California.
'Men of Tomorrow is written with the thrilled verve of the comic
book fan, along with a historians concern for scholarly apparatus
and a journalist's eye for a good story.'
*Daily Telegraph*
'The most insightful, engaging and yes, erudite account of how
comic books elbowed their way to the very core of mainstream
popular culture... For anyone who ever craved (and still does) the
next issue of Superman or Mad Magazine or the Fantastic Four, Jones
will remind you what that thrill felt like - and why' Scotsman
It's a tribute to the vividness with which Jones tells his tale
that Siegel and Schuster ultimately become more interesting than
Superman... Fascinating... Absorbing' Charles Shaar Murray,
Independent
[A] gleeful pop-culture history, told with comic book pacing,
deadpan wit and an ear for a telling phrase... It's a Jewish story
and it's an American story. It might even be an American
classic.'
*Glasgow Herald*
What a story... Men Of Tomorrow reads like a novel... Very
convincing...rich and rewarding.' Scotland on Sunday
The fascinating and heartbreaking true story of the goniffs,
shmendricks and shlemiels who gave birth to the superhero comics -
written with all the verve and velocity of a golden age comic
book
*Art Spiegelman*
'Men of Tomorrow is written with the thrilled verve of the
comic book fan, along with a historians concern for scholarly
apparatus and a journalist's eye for a good story.' * Daily
Telegraph *
'The most insightful, engaging and yes,
erudite account of how comic books elbowed their way to the
very core of mainstream popular culture... For anyone who ever
craved (and still does) the next issue of Superman or Mad Magazine
or the Fantastic Four, Jones will remind you what that thrill felt
like - and why' Scotsman
It's a tribute to the vividness with which Jones tells his tale
that Siegel and Schuster ultimately become more interesting than
Superman... Fascinating... Absorbing' Charles Shaar Murray,
Independent
[A] gleeful pop-culture history, told with comic book pacing,
deadpan wit and an ear for a telling phrase... It's a Jewish story
and it's an American story. It might even be an American
classic.' * Glasgow Herald *
What a story... Men Of Tomorrow reads like a novel... Very
convincing...rich and rewarding.' Scotland on Sunday
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