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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3606 - I came across this book that was first published in 2008. It's called 'Marvel Chronicle', A Year By Year History of Marvel Comics. I've been around Marvel Comics since the 'Beginning of Marvel Comics' in 1961. I've also had some experience on Atlas Comics, the forerunner of Marvel Comics. The pages look similiar to this one dating from 1952:
You can see the year at the top left of the page, with a little bit of history for the year, and then siginificant months in the year to the right. This is a copy of the two page spread. The 1952 year was picked because this was the year that 'Atlas Conquers All'. Atlas wasn't "anybody's favorite comic book company necessarily, but just about anybody reading comics books in 1952 was reading Atlas". The rest of the years from 1939 - 2007 were depicted in this style, along with certain comic book issues that the writers chose to talk about. Some were good stories, some were okay, and others I wondered why they were chosen to be presented in this book! Tom DeFalco, Peter Sanderson, Tom Brevoort, and Matthew Manning were the Authors of this book. I found that the years I definitely knew, (the 1960s & 1970s), were pretty much right on in their presentations. The book itself is a good 'coffee table' book to have! I would give it a Near Mint (NM) 9.4 out of a 10.0 comic book grading scale. This is where you can purchase Marvel Chronicle Reading level: Ages 17 and up ~Michael D Hamersky
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(Hyperion, Sept 2009) is the first in the series and introduces us to Castle's fantasy of Beckett: the tough and sexy Nikki Heat. The victim of the week is a philandering real estate tycoon who takes a dive off his exclusive balcony into a sidewalk cafe. The story takes us into the worlds of real estate development, private clubs, fine art, trophy wives and mobsters during one very, very hot NY City summer. You can smell the hot dogs, exhaust and melting asphalt. Like an episode of Murder, She Wrote, or most episodic murder mystery/cop shows, you know who done it by the casting, timing, even the music. Here, you sense the denouement, but, like the show, you don't mind; the fun is getting there. 
(Hyperion, Sept 2010) takes us deeper into the world of Richard Castle a k a Jameson Rook. 
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