Panini Comics continues the call for the next few months. For the integrals of the family Marvel Classic, the Italian publisher announces three new series for the summer program: the Captain America original from Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the Hulk from Tales to Astonish, and one Marvel Rarities comprising different stories of the Silver Age, with Watcher, of Dr Doom or Dr Druid, the one who is both a doctor and a druid.
Catch up session
Flagship of editions Panini Comics, the Marvel Classic play the role of giant archives for the various series of the Maison des Idées in France: large volumes generally organized in years of publication for ongoings superheroes, with the objective of making available all of these great soap operas from the past. In this case, the Captain America: The Golden Age from Simon and Kirby clearly covers the character’s early years after appearing in 1941 in Captain America Comics #1.
The Hulk of Tales to Astonish is also stuck in the early years of Bruce Banner in Marvel : after the cancellation of the first series Hulk and a lot of cameos in the Fantastic Four and a leading role within Avengers, the character will be entitled to a second attempt atongoing alone in Tales to Astonish in 1964. In this case, Panini plans to cover a set of numbers with Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby at drawings.
Finally, the volume Marvel Rarities will include a few more compact stories, put together to be able to print a complete volume with smaller series. In this case, the dodteur fateful from Wally Wood, the Uatu from Stan Lee and the Doctor Druid from Jack Kirby. The publisher promises more announcements in the coming weeks.
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