Shazam!
Chip Kidd
Shazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn’t long before a variety of merchandise was licensed?secret decoders, figurines, buttons, paper rockets, tin toys, puzzles, costumes?and a fan club was created to keep up with the demand. These collectibles now sell for outrageous prices on eBay and in comic book stores and conventions. Seventy years later, an unprecedented assortment of these artifacts are gathered together by award-winning writer/designer Chip Kidd and photographer Geo Spear. Join Kidd, Spear, and the World’s Mightiest Mortal in this first, fully authorized celebration of ephemera, artwork, and rare, one-of-a-kind toys, and recapture the magic that was Shazam!
Stan Lee (1922–2018) was a writer, editor, comic book creator, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Jack Kirby (1917–1994) created or co-created some of comic books' most popular characters including Captain America, the X-Men, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and the New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer, and editor at large for Pantheon. A three-time Eisner Award winner, he has written and designed more than a dozen books on comics. He lives in New York. Walter Mosley is one of our most celebrated and beloved writers, whose books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He lives in New York. Tom Brevoort is the executive editor and senior vice president of publishing at Marvel Comics, most notably on the New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four. As of 2020, Brevoort has become Marvel's longest-serving editor. He lives in New York. Mark Evanier is a comic book writer and historian and author of the award-winning monograph Kirby: King of Comics. He has three Emmy Award nominations and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for animation from the Writers Guild of America. He lives in Los Angeles. Geoff Spear is an award-winning photographer. His photographs have appeared on the cover and in the pages of Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, and many others. He lives in New York.
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