A legend of cinematic success, Rocky Balboa first graced our screens and became an overnight movie sensation more than 40 years ago. With images from the MGM archives and the Academy Library and a foreword by and interviews with Sylvester Stallone, this massive tome brings you all the guts and all the glory of this enduring action hero and movie masterpiece.

Art Edition (No. 26–50), numbered and signed by Sylvester Stallone, with the pigment print Rocky II (1979) by Neil Leifer, signed by Leifer and Stallone; a signed print of Stallone’s painting Finding Rocky (1975); and a 36-page Rocky notebook facsimile