Set Description:
A truly ground-breaking mini-series which also introduced Alex Ross and Kurt Busiek into mainstream comic fandom. The first time I laid eyes on Ross' breathtaking painted art, I just knew I had to collect the series! To say that I'm a big fan is an understatement; I still have my raw reader's copy on hand (including a few duplicates), 2 copies of the hardcover edition, and a copy of the softcover edition. My work takes me away from my home for extended periods of time (as in, two-year stints or so), and I always make sure that I pack along the a trade or HC, along with Ross' Kingdom Come, with me; find myself rereading this, and oogling on the art, every few months or so. Truly a 'bring along to a desert island' book for me.
Summary (from Wikipedia):
Marvels is a four-issue comic book limited series written by Kurt Busiek, painted by Alex Ross and edited by Marcus McLaurin, and published by Marvel Comics in 1994.
Set from 1939 to 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 portrayed ordinary life in a world full of costumed supermen, with each issue featuring events well-known to readers of Marvel comics as well as a variety of minute details and retelling the most infamous events in the Marvel Universe.
Marvels was a success, winning multiple awards and launching the significant careers of Busiek and Ross, who would both return to the "everyday life in a superhero universe" theme in the Homage Comics series Astro City.
The theme would be returned to in 1995 with Warren Ellis' Ruins but an actual sequel had to wait until 2008 with the release of Marvels: Eye of the Camera.
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