marvel masterworks Archives

At the Diamond Retailer lunch yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con Marvel Comics showed off new prints of the early Marvel Masterworks volumes, going back to the original files and artwork, in the light of what people like Scott Dunbier at IDW brought to the act of archiving and repringting classic comic books, as well as[...]

Marvel Comics has been publishing the Marvel Masterworks hardcovers and paperbacks since the mid-eighties, the first attempt by a comic book publisher to publish an archive of their companies' early work in such a fashion This year they will publish the 300th collection… which means it is time for Marvel to start all over again,[...]

This collection features stories by the renowned GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW team of writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, who brought a new sense of purpose to comics' greatest detective. Collects BATMAN #229-244 and stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #408-426. A second Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender: The Complete Collection Volume 2 There are new HC editions for Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four, Incredible[...]

UPDATE: Marvel's David Gabriel gets in touch to tell us that Comic Shop News misquoted him, and that he never said that the Essentials program was

For their 75th Anniversary, Marvel Comics is releasing a Slipcase set, for the first ten volumes of their Marvel Masterworks hardcover collections, as well as an extra eleventh Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities Volume 1. CollectedEditions.com got the scoop from Marvel's David Gabriel and Jeff Youngquist. With our 75th anniversary this year, we wanted something completely different from[...]