Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC
by Reed Tucker
Recommended by Marc Andreessen
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The most bruising battle in the superhero world isn't between spandexclad characters; it's between the publishers themselves. 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. Slugfest, the first book to tell the history o...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Comics, Most Recommended Books, and Business.
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Marc Andreessen
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“Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50year Battle between Marvel and DC by @reed_tucker Spellbinding creative and business history of the incredibly imaginative comic book industry in the decades before it ate Hollywood.”
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