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Jupiter's Legacy #1-2
Jupiter's Legacy Library Edition, Volume 2
Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s comic-book masterpiece, a vast epic covering three generations of superheroes from the early 20th Century to the far future.
>During the depths of the Great Depression, a mysterious island sent out a call to seven good-hearted people. They returned with fantastic powers and helped the United States through World War 2, The Cold War, and countless crises. They were beloved by all mankind, but their children were a different breed entirely.
Rich, spoiled and growing up in the Hollywood hills without their parents’ sense of duty, they grew tired of mankind’s ways and decided to murder their parents, take over the world and impose their ideas on a human race they regard as weak and stupid. Brandon Sampson, the son of the two most powerful superheroes who ever lived is their leader, a callow narcissist who always felt in his father’s shadow. But his sister Chloe refused to buckle and now leads the resistance movement against the superheroes. She and her super-villain boyfriend are recruiting all the old crooks they drove into hiding with a plan to rescue the world from the people born to save it.
For mature audiences.
Collects Jupiter's Legacy (2015) 1 and 2.
>During the depths of the Great Depression, a mysterious island sent out a call to seven good-hearted people. They returned with fantastic powers and helped the United States through World War 2, The Cold War, and countless crises. They were beloved by all mankind, but their children were a different breed entirely.
Rich, spoiled and growing up in the Hollywood hills without their parents’ sense of duty, they grew tired of mankind’s ways and decided to murder their parents, take over the world and impose their ideas on a human race they regard as weak and stupid. Brandon Sampson, the son of the two most powerful superheroes who ever lived is their leader, a callow narcissist who always felt in his father’s shadow. But his sister Chloe refused to buckle and now leads the resistance movement against the superheroes. She and her super-villain boyfriend are recruiting all the old crooks they drove into hiding with a plan to rescue the world from the people born to save it.
For mature audiences.
Collects Jupiter's Legacy (2015) 1 and 2.
280 pages, Hardcover
First published November 11, 2025
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About the author
Mark Millar
1,514 books2,562 followersMark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.
His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.
Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.
His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.
Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.
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November 8, 2025
(A-) 81% | Very Good
Notes: Review pending re-read. Individual reviews for included volumes can be found here:
- Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 3
- Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 4
Notes: Review pending re-read. Individual reviews for included volumes can be found here:
- Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 3
- Jupiter's Legacy, Vol. 4
November 16, 2025
By far the best part about this book is Frank Quitely's art with Peter Doherty's colours. This book simply looks incredible. As for the story (and some other reviewers have touched on this), Mark Millar blatantly recycles previously used plot ideas (some of which were even his own). And you know what? I'm okay with that. How many times have plots and storylines been recycled in comics? Honestly: recycling plots & storylines is actually part of the comics tradition. So one thing I would suggest/recommend to anyone reading this book would be to forget all about other comics and just enjoy Jupiter's Legacy on its own merits (which are, incidentally, a great superhero story with crisp, eye-popping art). Sure, Jupiter's Legacy is not perfect - what is? - but it's undeniably better than a lot of what the Big 2 are flooding the market with.
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