Marvel Super Stories Book One: All-New Comics from All-Star Cartoonists

Marvel Super Stories #1

by John Jennings (Editor), Marvel Entertainment, Nathan Hale (Contributor)

Marvel Super Stories is the first-ever middle-grade anthology from Marvel Comics, featuring all-new comics stories by 15 all-star cartoonists.

Welcome to the Marvel Universe and the World Outside Your Window! This first volume in a middle-grade anthology series with Marvel Comics, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator John Jennings, features all of your favorite Marvel super heroes in original six-page stories written and illustrated by some of the biggest names in comics for young readers. These mighty team-ups

Black Jerry Craft ( New Kid ), Mike Curato ( Flamer ), Miles Morales C. G. Esperanza ( Soul Food Sunday ), Iron John Gallagher (Max Meow), Gale Galligan (The Baby-Sitters Club), the Chris Giarrusso (G-Man), Nathan Hale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales), Captain Michael Lee Harris (Choco Leche), Ben Hatke (Zita the Spacegirl), Ms. Priya Huq ( Piece by The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab ), John Jennings ( The Graphic Novel Adaptation ), Thor and George O’Connor (The Olympians), Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate), Squirrel Maria Scrivan (Nat Enough), and Ghost Jessi Zabarsky ( Witchlight ).

This renowned roster takes a fun, fresh look at Marvel’s greatest super heroes, delivering all-new comics for fans of all ages.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Anthologies

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 17, 2023

About the author

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Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Familiar names from the children's graphic novel scene get to play in Marvel's sandbox.

The short tales are generally light and frothy concoctions intended to introduce Marvel's heroes to a new generation of readers. A helpful text block before each story gives an abbreviated backstory story for the featured hero so the writers can feel free to do something other than origin rehash stories.

Some are cute and silly, some are dull and dumb, but I think the positives outweigh the negatives.


FOR REFERENCE:

Contents:
• Acknowledgments
• Preface: The Page Is a Window / John Jennings
• Spider-Man: National Parker / Nathan Hale
• Black Panther: Banned Together / Jerry Craft
• Squirrel Girl: Acorny Situation / Maria Scrivan
• Hawkeye: Gosh, I Love Arrows / Ben Hatke
• Thor: Thor's Day / George O'Connor
• Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Spider-Kicks / C. G. Esperanza
• Namor: The Depths of Evil / Lincoln Peirce
• Sam Wilson, Captain America: Just Captain America / Michael Lee Harris
• Iron Man: Blinded by the Light / John Gallagher
• Shang-Chi: The Café Cat-astrophe! / Gale Galligan
• Hulk: Follow the Leader / Chris Giarrusso
• Wiccan: Good Things Come to Those Who Bake / Mike Curato
• Ms. Marvel: The B-list Super Hero / Priya Huq
• Ghost Spider: Girls over Ghouls / Jessi Zabarsky
• Daredevil: Secret Weapon / John Jennings
• About the Authors/Illustrators

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wait … Mike Curato doing a story about Wiccan!? You had me at Mike Curato! Sign me up!
A fun bunch of kid friendly short stories that feature a wide array of Marvel characters.
And yes, the Wiccan story by Curato is probably my favorite among them.

[Matt Glaviano · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this because it's an absolutely ridiculously stacked collection of writers. Ben Hatke, Jerry Craft, Gail Galligan, Nathan Hale, Lincoln Pierce... oh my.

Loved the Miles Morales story - great art.

The stories are all super short and accessible. This works for the and against them; the simplicity of the tales keep them accessible, but their short length also makes it hard for the story to really, you know, go anywhere.

That said, it's still a really fun collection to look at and it would be an extremely easy book to hand a Marvel fan working on their reading skills.

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a delightful little short story graphic novel collection, featuring well-known writers and artists of graphic novels taking on Marvel characters and telling a short story in their style. I loved the different art and writing styles throughout, and the stories themselves were short but sweet. My favorite ones were the Iron Man, Thor, Ms. Marvel, Black Panther, and Hulk stories, and I loved that Ms. Marvel's story looked hand-drawn as if Kamala had done it herself!

[Jayda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was more child like than I thought it would be. I was hoping for an entry point in the Marvel Universe. This wasn't that. The art was very colorful and eye-catching. It just wasn't what I thought it was.

[Kelli]

Nice, short one-offs for different Marvel characters in fun art styles.

[Kathryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

So fun

[Josh Newhouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was fantastic! Cant wait for the sequel!

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I see Mike Curato doing a Wiccan story, I read Mike Curato doing a Wiccan story.

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bunch of kid-friendly short stories starring Marvel superheroes. Most of them aren't really fighting bad guys. Different creators for each, so the quality is mixed.

[Aurora · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stories range from “bad” to “not great” to “might’ve been good, if it had more than 6 pages to work with…” 😅