Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics

by Blake Bell

Bill Everett invented comics' first anti-hero in 1939; an angry half-breed (half-man, half sea-creature) that terrorized mankind until uniting with the Allied Forces to conquer fascism's march across Europe during World War II. But the reasons to celebrate Bill Everett's monumental career in comics books don't stop with his water-based hero. Everett was a master of many comic genres, and was one of the pre-eminent horror comic-book artists in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606991663
• ISBN13: 9781606991664
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher