Marvel Is Making the First Comedian That Exists Contained in the MCU

Marvel has made loads of tie-in comedian books for his or her motion pictures. I bear in mind promoting fairly a couple of copies of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man guide that was written by Stan Lee again in my days as a comic book retailer clerk. Marvel has made film prequels and film variations, and film spinoffs.

So it’s not significantly stunning in and of itself that Marvel is making a comic book tied to their upcoming Incredible 4 movie, The Incredible 4: First Steps. What makes it somewhat extra notable, or a minimum of extra fascinating is that (per Deadline) the corporate’s First Steps comedian is “designed to be an artifact from the world of the upcoming film” and likewise confirms that the movie is “not an origin story, however will choose up 4 years after they turn into heroes.”

In different phrases: this Incredible 4 comedian isn’t simply concerning the MCU model of the characters — performed by Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bacharach — it exists as a comic book inside the movie’s universe. As in, if you have been a child who liked the Incredible 4 within the MCU, you could possibly stroll to your native comedian retailer (or extra probably your nook drug retailer, since First Steps takes place up to now earlier than comedian shops even existed) and purchase a copy of this guide.

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Marvel’s First Steps comedian is written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Mark Buckingham, with a canopy by Phil Noto. As you’ll be able to see above, Noto’s piece is impressed by the quilt to the very first Incredible 4 #1 from 1961 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Provided that picture, and the truth that the guide supposedly confirms the movie just isn’t an origin story, I’m going to make the educated guess that this comedian is this FF’s origin — retelling their first battle with the Mole Man, simply as Lee and Kirby did of their authentic Incredible 4 #1, for followers of the group within the MCU. (The film’s trailers have already made it clear the FF are large celebrities of their universe.)

Lee and Kirby’s Incredible 4 tales typically referenced the truth that the FF have been celebrities with their very own comedian guide — which, in an much more meta contact, was written and drawn by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. So this continues that custom as nicely.

Marvel‘s First Steps comedian goes on sale on July 2. The Incredible 4: First Steps is scheduled to open in theaters on July 25.