Middle-grade creators, assemble! Marvel and Abrams have announced a new anthology for later this year featuring stories by some of the hottest names in middle-grade graphic novels. They’ll be writing and drawing six-page stories featuring Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye, Shang-Chi, Hulk and many more.
The project is being edited by John Jennings, who heads up Abrams’ award-winning Megascope imprint. He’s also doing a Daredevil story for the anthology.
“I’m so thrilled to have helped bring this amazing collection of Marvel stories to a new generation,” Jennings said. “Working with these super-talented storytellers has been a dream. Marvel Comics is an institution that has inspired so many imaginations across the world, including my own. With Marvel Super Stories we get to continue that legacy, presenting the best and brightest creators coupled with the most marvelous heroes.”
This is a very impressive list of creators, and I like the fact that the first two listed are Jerry Craft and Mike Curato, creators of the award-winning, and often-banned, New Kid and Flamer, respectively. Here’s the full list:
- Black Panther: Jerry Craft (New Kid)
- Wiccan: Mike Curato (Flamer)
- Miles Morales Spider-Man: C. G. Esperanza (Soul Food Sunday)
- Iron Man: John Gallagher (Max Meow)
- Shang-Chi: Gale Galligan (The Baby-Sitters Club)
- The Hulk: Chris Giarrusso (G-Man)
- Spider-Man: Nathan Hale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales)
- Captain America: Michael Lee Harris (Choco Leche)
- Hawkeye: Ben Hatke (Zita the Spacegirl)
- Ms. Marvel: Priya Huq (Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab)
- Daredevil: John Jennings (Kindred: The Graphic Novel Adaptation)
- Thor and Loki: George O’Connor (The Olympians)
- Namor: Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate)
- Squirrel Girl: Maria Scrivan (Nat Enough)
- Ghost Spider: Jessi Zabarsky (Witchlight)
The anthology arrives in stores Oct. 17.