From Homer to Henry James to... Spider-Man. How a collaboration between Marvel and Penguin Classics resulted in scholarly, annotated hardcover editions of vintage superhero stories — and why it changes the conversation about comic books as a literary form
that he co-curated with Patrick A. Reed, opens on July 1st in San Diego.) She envisioned him as the main editor for the series, someone who’d be able to connect the dots between these four-color sagas and ancient tales of bravery and heroism. “The project was still at the talky stage then,” Saunders says.
From there, Rotor, Saunders and the brass at Marvel narrowed down a core six titles that they felt made sense to start with. And they all agreed that, unlike the majority of anthologies and hardback omnibus collections of Marvel comics on the market, the idea was not to go after comprehensive artist/writer runs or stand-alone storylines. They would have the freedom to skip around if it meant tracing a character or characters’ arc over several years, or even decades.
“I know when you say Marvel plus Penguin Classics, some people are like, Huh? And others are like, Yes. It’s about time.”—Penguin Classics Publisher Elda Rotor For some, the chance to slip gorgeous editions of Spidey and Cap comics next to their similarly orange-lettered/black-spined versions of Henry James novels, Alain Locke’s Harlem Renaissance essays and, yes, even Moz’s autobiography is enough to seek these books out.
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