In late 1992, on small budgets and under tight schedules, the cast and crew of X-MEN: The Animated Series crafted a television show that, despite an industry full of naysayers, immediately shot to #1. This “kids' show” often landed more than half the TV viewers across America, and a twenty-year gold rush of Marvel motion pictures and TV series followed. Previously on X-Men is Eric Lewald’s personal, inside account of how the series got on the air, the many challenges that were overcome, and how the show prevailed. The head writer interviewed 36 of the artists, writers, voice cast, and executives who helped make this game-changing series a worldwide success. This book is an authoritative look into the creation of the animated series that nobody expected to succeed. Lewald offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Saturday-morning cartoon series that changed Hollywood.

Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series

Arts & Photography

Lewald, Eric

Graphic Design

Jacobs/Brown Media Group

With "These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2 (1975-77)," author Marc Cushman’s groundbreaking research covering the history of "Star Trek" continues. Using memos and letters from "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, his colleagues, the studios, and the networks, you will witness pop-culture history being made. Included are production reports, TV ratings, vintage press coverage, and interviews, as Cushman documents the "Trek" events from 1975 through 1977, including Gene Roddenberry’s 1977 TV pilot film "Spectre," and Roddenberry’s other sci-fi projects from this period, such as “The Nine” and “Battleground: Earth.” Also covered in definitive detail, the efforts throughout 1975 and ’76 by Paramount Pictures and Roddenberry to make a "Star Trek" movie, which gave way to the development of a new television series in 1977, the aborted “Star Trek Phase II.” While the series never became a reality, this book covers how it’s the script for its two-hour premiere episode became the template for 1979’s "Star Trek – The Motion Picture." This is your boarding pass to go behind the scenes as a TV series and its creator become a worldwide phenomenon and achieve legendary status. “Cushman’s attention to detail is astounding, and he does fans a great service by recounting not only the Star Trek-related happenings of [the 1970s], but also what the folks involved in Star Trek were doing at that time. Do yourself a favor and pick this up.” – Kyle Hadyniak, Treknews.net.

These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2 (1975-77)

Marc Cushman

Science Fiction & Fantasy

When You Step Upon A Star is a wildly entertaining confessional of a former National Enquirer bad boy who earned a living by exposing stars' private lives while harboring deeply personal secrets of his own. Learn what inspired author WILLIAM KECK to risk his safety and reputation by infiltrating the off-limits realms of the Hollywood icons he grew up idolizing, and what invaluable life lessons ultimately led him to make peace with the sins of his tabloid past and befriend the celebrities he'd once wronged.

When You Step Upon a Star: Cringeworthy Confessions of a Tabloid Bad Boy

William Keck

Biographies & Memoirs

Keck, William

Leaders & Notable People

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