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After making his home primarily at DC Comics for decades, NEIL GAIMAN decided to work on a major project for MARVEL COMICS. Giving his unique spin on characters such as SPIDERMAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE FANTASIC FOUR, THE X-MEN, DOCTOR STRANGE, NICK FURY AGENT OF SHIELD, DAREDEVIL, THE INCREDIBLE HULK and many more!
Gaiman took the Marvel Universe characters and set them up in the historical and political landscape of the year 1602. He used most of the classic Marvel Silver Age characters and presented them to us in a way we have never seen before, in a fresh and entertaining adventure.
An interesting side-note about this project is that profits from MARVEL 1602 were dedicated to Gaiman's lawsuit against TODD MCFARLANE over the creator rights to SPAWN characters such as ANGELA, CAGLIOSTRO and MEDIEVAL SPAWN, as well as sorting out the rights to the legendary MIRACLEMAN/MARVELMAN characters and stories.
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
MARVEL 1602 written by NEIL GAIMAN!
8 COMIC BOOKS - THE COMPLETE SERIES
THIS VERSION IS OUT OF PRINT. HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEMS.
Original 1st PRINT, 1st EDITIONS!
All's not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange storms are brewing and strange new powers are emerging! Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Dr. Doom, Black Widow, Captain America, and more appear in the waning days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. As the world begins to change and enter into a new age, Gaiman weaves a thrilling mystery. How and why are these Marvel stars appearing nearly 400 years before they're supposed to?
The always inventive Gaiman has concocted an unlikely—but fantastically successful—superhero comic that transfers Marvel's classic characters to the Elizabethan period. Nick Fury is still a lethal government operative, but now he's an adviser to Queen Elizabeth. Her Majesty is equally reliant on magician and doctor Stephen Strange. X-Men mentor Charles Xavier still shepherds a band of mutant teens, only now he's called Carlos Javier, and the mutants are known, and mistrusted, as "witchbreed." Carlos's mysterious nemesis has taken on a new job: grand inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. Peter Parker (here "Parquah") is still a confused but well-meaning teenager who has yet to be bitten by a radioactive spider. Placed in a period landscape (rendered in rich, painterly panels by illustrator Kubert and digital painter Richard Isanove), these familiar characters must grapple with the issues of the day, chief among them the machinations of the evil King James of Scotland. And, in classic superhero style, they must save the world. The improbable combination works remarkably well, as the superheroes' strange abilities adapt to Elizabethan culture. This glorious adventure is peppered with Scott McKowen's gorgeous, moody cover-art woodcuts.
Entertainment Weekly
"1602 is a triumph. The Marvel universe hasn't been this engrossing in ages."
These are the original published version of Gaiman's 1602, and was never sold in any mass market retail outlets. It was only available to purchase through comic book specialty shops.
Printed on high quality glossy paper to enhance the lavish artwork.
About the Author
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
Asked why he likes comics more than other forms of storytelling Gaiman said “One of the joys of comics has always been the knowledge that it was, in many ways, untouched ground. It was virgin territory. When I was working on Sandman, I felt a lot of the time that I was actually picking up a machete and heading out into the jungle. I got to write in places and do things that nobody had ever done before. When I’m writing novels I’m painfully aware that I’m working in a medium that people have been writing absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant things for, you know, three-four thousand years now. You know, you can go back. We have things like The Golden Ass. And you go, well, I don’t know that I’m as good as that and that’s two and a half thousand years old. But with comics I felt like — I can do stuff nobody has ever done. I can do stuff nobody has ever thought of. And I could and it was enormously fun.”
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