Marvel has announced a new trade paperback line called the Marvel Premier Collection, which will offer material from “Marvel’s most celebrated and prestigious storylines and creators.”
The 6” x 9” formatted collections will be slightly bigger than DC’s Compact Comics line, but seems to be taking a similar approach — offering classic and recent beloved material from their back library. Marvel’s line will cost $5 more than DC’s, coming in at $14.99 each.
“We’ve all heard the age-old questions: ‘Where do I start? What is that one run you just cannot miss? What should I read before or after the next big movie or television show to have the best experience?’ The Marvel Premier Collection program is our answer to each of those questions,” said Dan Buckley, president of Marvel Comics and Franchise. “Comics are at the heart of everything we do at Marvel, so this collection will be our go-to publishing line for any and all fans looking for a way into — or further into — the Marvel Universe. These titles will not be the only place to start of course, but they will be one of the best.”
The line will kick off with a new collection of Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, which will feature a new intro by Miller and an afterward by Charlie Cox, star of the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again TV series on Disney+ (synergy!) It comes out Feb. 4.
That same day will also bring Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze and Chris Sprouse. It collects the first 12 issues of Coates’ run on Black Panther.
They’ll be followed in April by a new collection of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting’s Captain America run that re-introduced Bucky Barnes to the Marvel Universe, and then in June they’ll release Fantastic Four: Solve Everything by Jonathan Hickman, Dale Eaglesham, Neil Edwards and Epting. It’ll feature a “streamlined version of the seminal Fantastic Four run for the first time,” with issues curated by Hickman.