Marvel announces an all-star creative roster for a new anthology celebrating 75 years of stories.
Legendary and current superstar creators like Stan Lee and Bruce Timm, Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, Len Wein and Paul Gulacy, James Robinson, Tom DeFalco, Stan Goldberg, Scott Hanna, and more will be part of the Marvel 75th Anniversary Special.
“I knew that I wanted to do stories that would celebrate Marvel’s long history,” Executive Editor Tom Brevoort told Marvel.com.
“I knew that I also wanted to utilize a number of our classic creators, but not in an ‘Old Timer’s Day’ sort of fashion. And I knew that I wanted the overall package to touch on as much of the overall span of Marvel’s publishing history as possible—not just the very recent nor the very old material. So it’s a particular aesthetic balance I was trying to achieve.”
For such an incredible opportunity how do the editors decide which writers, artists and heroes to pair up with?
“In the case of Len Wein, it was [editor] Mike Marts’ idea to reunite Len with his most famous creation, Wolverine,” Brevoort explained. “In the case of Bruce Timm, I hit on the notion of turning Stan Lee’s very first story, a two-page text feature, into an actual Captain America tale, and Bruce seemed like a guy with the right set of skills to be able to take on that job. I had an idea for a story that would show what all sorts of other Marvel characters were doing during the time the Fantastic Four were embarking on their rocket journey, and that sounded like a James Robinson story to me. And when I mentioned the project to him, Brian Bendis came up with the notion of he and Michael Gaydos doing a new Jessica Jones story that would have her investigating a case with a legacy element to it.”
Paulo Rivera (Daredevil) created this amazing cover celebrating that first issue from 1939.
Marvel 75th Anniversary Special arrives in October.
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