Marvels — Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross (Trade Paperback, Preowned)

Written by Kurt Busiek • Illustrated by Alex Ross

What does a world full of superheroes look like to everyone else?

Marvels steps away from the usual superhero perspective and looks at the Marvel Universe through the eyes of the ordinary people living beneath all those battles in the sky.

Written by Kurt Busiek and brought to life through the painted artwork of Alex Ross, the story revisits the arrival and rise of Marvel’s heroes from a more human point of view. Familiar figures—including Spider-Man—appear not simply as heroes on an adventure, but as extraordinary beings whose presence changes the world around them.

The result combines superhero storytelling with a different sense of scale and perspective, giving iconic moments in Marvel history the feeling of events witnessed by the people who happened to be there.

This 2001 Marvel Comics trade paperback brings Busiek and Ross’s acclaimed collaboration together in a collected edition.

Details

Format: Trade paperback
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Printing: 2001
Language: English
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artist: Alex Ross
Cover Art: Alex Ross
Genre: Superhero / graphic novel
Era: Modern Age

Condition

Preowned. Please review the product photographs for condition details and the appearance of the specific copy available.

Why We Love It

Superhero stories usually put us right beside the person wearing the cape.

Marvels asks us to look up instead.

That shift in perspective makes these enormous characters feel enormous again. Through the eyes of ordinary people, superheroes can be inspiring, frightening, mysterious, and completely beyond comprehension—and Alex Ross’s painted artwork gives them exactly that kind of presence.

Sometimes changing where you stand changes the whole story.

Preowned Copy

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