Marvel Unlimited

Marvel Unlimited Edition: After Steve Gerber
Marvel Unlimited Edition: After Steve Gerber
Marvel Unlimited Edition: After Steve Gerber
The Marvel Unlimited app is a gigantic, messy cache of awesome and terrible old comic books: a library of 13,000 or so back issues of Marvel titles, available on demand for subscribers with tablets or mobile phones. Like any good back-room longbox, it’s disorganized and riddled with gaps, but it’s also full of forgotten and overlooked jewels, as well as a few stone classics. In Marvel Unlimited Edition, Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk dives into the Unlimited archive to find its best, oddest and most intriguing comics. Steve Gerber died in 2008, but his work is still casting a shadow over contemporary comics -- it's a good bet that Guardians of the Galaxy and The Defenders wouldn't be what they are now without him, for instance, and the biting, off-kilter tone of his writing has found its way into the central stream of superhero comics. Here are a couple of ingenious variations on projects he co-created, as well as a posthumously published jewel.
Marvel Unlimited Edition: (G)Roots of the Guardians
Marvel Unlimited Edition: (G)Roots of the Guardians
Marvel Unlimited Edition: (G)Roots of the Guardians
The Marvel Unlimited app is a gigantic, messy cache of awesome and terrible old comic books: a library of 13,000 or so back issues of Marvel titles, available on demand for subscribers with tablets or mobile phones. Like any good back-room longbox, it’s disorganized and riddled with gaps, but it’s also full of forgotten and overlooked jewels, as well as a few stone classics. In Marvel Unlimited Edition, Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk dives into the Unlimited archive to find its best, oddest and most intriguing comics. Two spin-offs of Guardians of the Galaxy launch in recent weeks: The Legendary Star-Lord and the already-surprise-hit Rocket Raccoon. Marvel Unlimited's got a fairly thorough, if not quite complete, selection of most of the Guardians' previous appearances, especially the ones in the Annihilation/Annihilation: Conquest/Annihilators sequence. But their prehistory is worth digging into, too, and there's some choice proto-Guardians material in the archive.
Marvel Unlimited Edition: Fin Fang Foom
Marvel Unlimited Edition: Fin Fang Foom
Marvel Unlimited Edition: Fin Fang Foom
The Marvel Unlimited app is a gigantic, messy cache of awesome and terrible old comic books: a library of 13,000 or so back issues of Marvel titles, available on demand for subscribers with tablets or mobile phones. Like any good back-room longbox, it's disorganized and riddled with gaps, but it's also full of forgotten and overlooked jewels, as well as a few stone classics. In Marvel Unlimited Edition, Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk dives into the Unlimited archive to find its best, oddest and most intriguing comics. In today's edition: Who needs Godzilla when you've got Fin Fang Foom? One of the most ridiculous of the many monsters Stan Lee and Jack Kirby dreamed up in the pre-Fantastic Four era, the giant green (or maybe orange) dragon was first revived in 1974, and has shown up on a fairly regular basis over the past couple of decades. Sometimes (as in Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen's Iron Man) he's taken very seriously; sometimes (as in Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen's nextwave) he's not. Here are some of his most entertaining appearances in the Unlimited archives.
‘Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited’ Is Now ‘Marvel Unlimited’ On iOS
‘Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited’ Is Now ‘Marvel Unlimited’ On iOS
‘Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited’ Is Now ‘Marvel Unlimited’ On iOS
Today at SXSW in Austin, TX, Marvel Comics officially announced the rebranding of its web-based Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited subscription service as simply, "Marvel Unlimited." The name change signals the launch of a new Marvel Unlimited iOS app, which gives users access to the same shifting stable of some 13,000 digital comics on a potentially more convenient platform and interface.