New Comic Series In The Works At Marvel; ‘The Marvels’ Set To Launch Early Summer

Marvel is currently working on an upcoming project that will be “the most sprawling series to ever hit the Marvel Universe,” according to the publisher.

Set to launch this summer, ‘The Marvels’ is a new comics book that will expand the Marvel Universe and Marvel Entertainment like never before.

Marvels,’ which was created by Kurt Busiek, is “intended as a freewheeling book that can go anywhere, do anything, use anyone,” the writer said.

“It’s a smorgasbord of Marvel heroes and history,” Busiek explained to Marvel.com. “It’s not a team. It’s a concept, or a universe, depending on how you look at it. The Marvels features the marvels — all the many and varied characters of the Marvel Universe. The heroes, the villains, the oddities — all of it. There’ll be popular characters of today; there’ll be obscure characters from long ago — heck, there’ll be story threads that take place in the past, or possibly the future. We’re not limited to just the present. And there’ll be new characters, too, from the street-level to the cosmic.”

Fans of the Marvel world may have already guessed it, but ‘The Marvels’ is a spin-off of ‘Marvels’ a 1994 mini-series.

The original series, according to The Hollywood Reporter, retold different events of Marvel comics prior to that time, all from the standpoint of a photojournalist.

This isn’t the first time ‘Marvels’ is making a return, as in recent years, the story has evolved into a podcast becoming the idea for different Marvel comic books such as ‘Marvel,’ ‘Marvels X,’ and ‘Marvels Snapshot.’

Illustrations for the upcoming comic book series will be created by Yildiray Cinar, while covers and character designs will be created by Alex Ross, who partnered with Busiek on the ‘Marvels’ miniseries as well, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

“We knew we needed someone who could draw whatever part of Marvel we threw at him, from gritty mean-streets stuff for a Punisher scene to hi-tech Super Heroes with the Avengers to cosmic oddities and ancient history and more,” Busiek explained. “And Yıldıray can do all that and make it feel spectacular and active and human and quirky, all at once.

“Having Alex and Yildiray both involved give me a lot of confidence that wherever the stories go, we’re in very good hands,” Busiek continued.

Fans can look forward to the first issue of the brand new comic book series ‘The Marvels’ to be released in May.