Marvels
| Marvels | |
|---|---|
Marvels #1, cover art by Alex Ross. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January – April 1994 |
| No. of issues | 4 + #0 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Kurt Busiek Alex Ross |
| Written by | Kurt Busiek |
| Artist | Alex Ross |
| Letterer(s) | John Gaushell Richard Starkings |
| Colorist | Alex Ross |
| Editor | Marcus McLaurin |
| Collected editions | |
| 10th Anniversary Edition | ISBN 0-7851-1388-6 |
Marvels is a four-issue miniseries comic book written by Kurt Busiek, painted by Alex Ross and edited by Marcus McLaurin. It was published by Marvel Comics in 1994.
Taking place between 1939 and 1974, the series examines the Marvel Universe, the collective setting of most of Marvel's superhero series, from the perspective of an everyman character, news photographer Phil Sheldon. The street-level series portrays ordinary life in a world full of costumed superhumans, with each issue featuring major events in the Marvel Universe as observed by Sheldon.
Marvels won multiple awards and established the careers of Busiek and Ross, who would both return to the "everyday life in a superhero universe" theme in the Image Comics (later Homage Comics and currently DC Comics) series, Astro City.
Warren Ellis's Ruins returned to this theme in 1995 with a twisted story of an alternate universe in which everything that can go wrong does go wrong, but an actual sequel was not developed until 2008 with the release of Marvels: Eye of the Camera, but only Busiek was involved. A single issue epilogue was released in late 2019 with both Busiek and Ross returning.