Marvel Comics is reviving its Amazing Fantasy title with a new series by writer/artist Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: Reign, Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One).
The new iteration of Amazing Fantasy will star Captain America, Spider-Man and Black Widow, who are plucked from different eras and dropped onto a mysterious island. Black Widow comes from her time as a student of Russia's Red Room, Spider-Man is still a teenager and Captain America comes from his World War II days before being frozen in ice.
"My very first memories of reading anything, even before I could read words, were of holding a Marvel comic in my hands at the age of four. I had no idea what the characters were saying, but I was enchanted with the story told through pictures. It is a thrill to return to a new Marvel limited series, writing and drawing not just my favorite characters -- but my favorite versions of those characters. I just had to come up with a plan to put WWII Captain America, teenaged Spidey and spy school Black Widow into the same adventure," Andrews said in a statement.
He continued, "This is a story that combines not just different Marvel eras but different art styles to depict them. As a creator, sometimes you want to invent new heroes and villains to expand the universe into different places or ideas, but sometimes there is an even greater power in embracing what has come before. In telling fresh and passionate tales with heroes that an audience has already invested a lifetime in. There is a beating heart to these archetypes. And they need to live again!"
AMAZING FANTASY #1 (OF 5)
- Written by KAARE ANDREWS
- Art and Cover by KAARE ANDREWS
- On Sale 7/28
- Red Room Black Widow, teenage Spider-Man, World War II Captain America — the most iconic versions of your favorite Marvel characters from across time and space all wake up on an island of intrigue, darkness and...Amazing Fantasy. Are they dead? Are they dreaming? Or have they truly been transported to another fantastical realm? And is there any way for them to return home? This isn’t just a love letter to your favorite Marvel eras, it’s a reinvestment in the seminal characters you’ve always loved, plucked from their quintessential timelines.
Amazing Fantasy #1 goes on sale July 28 from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel