So where MARVELS (1994) was about an ordinary guy’s view of the marvels, THE MARVELS is about the marvels themselves.

The heroes, the villains, the oddities-all of it. THE MARVELS features the marvels-all the many and varied characters of the Marvel Universe. It’s a concept, or a universe, depending on how you look at it. It’s a smorgasbord of Marvel heroes and history. THE MARVELS is intended as a freewheeling book that can go anywhere, do anything, use anyone. I think I described it to Tom Brevoort as something like a Tom Clancy thriller, in that there would be multiple threads of story going on, and those threads could come together and split apart again, or maybe never even meet-there could be characters involved in a story that do something important but never meet the other characters in the story, which will very much be the case in the opening storyline, at least.īig stuff can happen in the Marvel Universe, but we usually see it confined largely to the Avengers in AVENGERS, to the FF in FANTASTIC FOUR, and so on.

The whole idea of THE MARVELS is to be able to use the whole Marvel Universe-not just all the characters in it, but all the history of it. This is a huge series with seemingly endless possibilities. We caught up with modern Marvel master Mister Busiek himself for a perspicacious primer on the story to come! Featuring Captain America, Spider-Man, the Punisher, the Human Torch, Storm, the Black Cat, the Golden Age Vision, Aero, Iron Man, Thor, and introducing two new characters-all beautifully drawn by Yildiray Cinar in the opening act of a thrilling ongoing series that’ll take us across the Marvel Universe…and beyond. The first issue includes an invasion from orbit, a picnic in Prospect Park, Super Hero sightseeing in Manhattan, the All-Winners Squad in 1947, Reed Richards during his time in military intelligence, cosmic beings beyond space and time-and that’s only for starters.

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