Marvel Masterworks aren't the only place you can get your fix for classic Marvel Comics. As you know, the Masterworks series starts from the very beginning and slowly but judiciously moves forward through time, collecting everything in one line of books. However, there's a whole bunch of great material that Marvel has to reprint that will take years to get to through Masterworks, and in those cases, you can expect to see the material in a trade paperback!

The other pages of the MarvelMasterworks.com's Trade Paperback Library focus on the "Current Era" of comics, what I have aribitrarily determined to fall after the Onslaught/Heroes Reborn Era in the late 1990s. Since that time, Marvel has put out a lot of quality comics, but they aren't the comics most of us grew up on! But Marvel isn't taking us for granted just because we like old-school comics, no sir! They're serving it up pretty heavy, as you can tell if you look down in this very column and scope out the Upcoming Trade Schedule list!

Marvel has delivered a ton of AVENGERS titles in trade, with the Kree/Skrull and Avengers/Defenders War seeing print. Heck, even West Coast Avengers have gotten their due! JACK KIRBY has seen his library of late 70s material grow, with volumes of CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON and BLACK PANTHER! FRANK MILLER'S DAREDEVIL is available in full in the Visionaries series, and JOHN BYRNE'S FANTASTIC FOUR and WALT SIMONSON'S THOR are nearing the same status!

Also included on this library page are Marvel Comics from the past for which Marvel no longer has the license, but which are being reprinted by other companies, notably STAR WARS and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, both of which are being reprinted by DARK HORSE COMICS.

If you're a fan of classic Marvel Comics, between the books on this page and the MASTERWORKS LIBRARY, you'll have PLENTY of reading material!

- - Your pal in comix, Gormuu
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Upcoming Marvel Trade Paperbacks: CLASSIC ERA

Fantastic Four Visionaries: Walt Simonson Vol. 1
reprints Fantastic Four #334-341
DUE 5/2

Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne Vol. 7
reprints Fantastic Four #285-286 and Annual #19, Avengers #263 and Annual #14 and X-Factor #1
DUE 6/13

Captain America: War & Remembrance * new printing *
reprints Captain America #247-255
DUE 7/5

Invaders Classic Vol. 1
reprints Invaders #1-9, Giant-Size Invaders #1 and Marvel Premiere #29-30
DUE 7/5

Hulk Visionaries: Peter David Vol. 4
reprints Incredible Hulk #355-363 and Marvel Comics Presents #26, 45
DUE 7/11

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Star Brand Vol. 1

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Visionaries: David Vol. 1
Visionaries: David Vol. 2