NEW YORK (AP) — For those who love motion pictures or comics, you’ve got seemingly adopted the adventures of Spider-Man,Iron Man and different superheroes. A brand new line of books will allow you to discover the again tales of their creation.
On Wednesday, Bloomsbury and Marvel introduced a multi-year, multi-volume licensing settlement for “Marvel Age of Comics.” The books will combine history and personal narrative, starting this fall with Stuart Moore’s “Doctor Strange,” Paul Cornell’s “The Mighty Avengers of the 1970s” and Chris Ryall’s “Daredevil.” The illustrations will characteristic unique work from Marvel’s digital archive.
Initiated by Marvel, the brand new sequence was impressed partially by Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 books, quick and compact works about fashionable music starting from the Conflict and Judy Garland to Madonna and Kendrick Lamar.
“We’ve been tremendous fans of Bloomsbury’s work on projects like 33 1/3, and we can’t wait to see them take a similar approach combining their reverence for the material, academic expertise, and unique insights with some of our greatest publishing moments for the new ‘Marvel Age of Comics’ series,” Sven Larsen, vp of licensed publishing at Marvel, mentioned in an announcement.
Haaris Naqvi, director of publishing at Bloomsbury USA, mentioned he had been a fan of Marvel since childhood and welcomed the comics empire’s proposal for a “smart” sequence on its historical past.
“I remember me and my brothers reading Marvel issues when they came out in the ’80s,” he mentioned throughout a latest interview. “Working on this series has brought me back to that time. I would love it if the series had that effect on readers.”