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| Marvel 1602 | 
| Author: Neil Gaiman
Creator: Andy Kubert
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 77474
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0785123113
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785123118
ASIN: 0785123113
Publication Date: March 8, 2006
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Condition: THIS ITEM IS UNUSED AND IN GOOD CONDITION. IT MAY HAVE SLIGHT SHELFWEAR BUT OTHERWISE IT IS FINE.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good for Marvel Fans August 7, 2008
I had tried reading this in the book store one time and did not have good feel for it. I recently went to Wizard World Philly and saw it and decided to try it again. I thought maybe I would have enjoyed more at home and I was right.
Now I am not a big comic book reader. Unless it is written by Joss Whedon and I then I read things here and there. I knew of some of the background story's of the X-men and Fantastic Four but I don't follow them religiously. I am also not a Neil Gaiman fan. My husband loves him but I have a hard understanding what some brit authors are talking about in their books. That aside I still thought it was an interesting story line to the Marvel Universe. Putting in the past made it seem more real.
One of the best comic series in years. July 18, 2008
A unique style of illustration combined with Neil Gaiman's excellent writing makes a recipe for one of the better comic books of recent years. It is based off the simple premise: what if the mutants had existed 400 years prior? Answers: The Inquisition would be pleased at proof of Satan's influence upon the world, monarchs would use the mutants talents in an attempt to keep their kingdoms going, and like the modern day books, the people blessed or cursed with talent would be caught betwixt and between. Highly recommended.
Graphic SF Reader June 12, 2008
Alternate history Marvel.
I thought this look at a different history of the Marvel Universe, with various major characters having 17th century analogues in influential geopolitical roles as ok, but that was about it.
Not sure the ambiguous viewpoint character of Captain America improved it, although made a link to possible future stories, presumably important to the publisher, at least.
 Nearly Perfect March 11, 2008
I admit, I had doubts about how well this concept--contemporary Marvel superheroes recast in the year 1602--could be pulled off. My concern was that this would end up being just one giant gimmick, a kind of Marvel "Where's Waldo?", superhero-style. I couldn't have been more wrong! The artwork and storyline are engaging and absolutely successful in terms of taking old, familiar superheroes and recasting them in fresh ways with emotional, three dimensional plots. I did have a couple small complaints--for example, I think more could have been done with the characters of Jean Grey, Cyclops, and Archangel.
I would also have liked to see a bit more of Daredevil--although that's not really a complaint, so much as a statement of how much I enjoyed what Gaiman did with that particular character, who I'd never really liked before! I also liked what Gaiman did with Fury and Strange--two more characters I'd never really liked before this. Overall, I'd rank this as one of my favorite graphic novels yet!!
Refreshing look at some too familiar characters February 12, 2008
The publishers of Marvel and DC Comics seem to define creativity as realigning their comic universes every few years. After all the buildup, the then-current hoopla and the subsequent "thrills and chills" of the afterglow, whatever universe remains is always populated by the same characters with the same lives, facing the same powers. All that changes, if change is the appropriate word, is that the current writers can put their stamp on established developments by claiming to not be "hampered" by events of the past. The end result, ultimately, is a disavowment of years of continuity to the less creative can produce new continuity which will define the characters until the next all-encompassing crisis is produced.
Not so with Neil Gaiman. He always adds new spins to established characters without dishonoring the work of his predecessors. The true genious of his Sandman character was not the highly imaginative world the Endless inhabited, but how he wove this world around DC's established characters without ignoring or disrespecting the works of his predecessors.
In Marvel 1602, Gaiman moves the Marvel superheroes back in time 350 years, give or take a crisis, and begins the Marvel Universe anew. This new telling of the origins and coming-of-age of all-too-familiar characters offers an exciting vision of a Universe that is just as valid as the one we grew up reading about. The heroes are inherrently noble, the villains evil, and the struggle between the two timeless. The story is an exciting read that honors the original work without copying it. This is Gaiman's greatest strength as a comic writer, and this collection stands equal to his other comic collections.
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