Neil Gaiman's vision of the Marvel Universe in the year 1602!
The year is 1602, and strange things are stirring in England. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. Stephen Strange senses the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a made despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings -- young men bearing fantastic superhuman powers and abilities. And in the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole world ends?
In Marvel 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and artist Andy Kubert present a unique vision of the Marvel Universe set four hundred years in the past. Classical marvel icons such as the X-men, Spider-man, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil appear in this intriguin world of 17th century science and sorcery, instantly familiar to readers, yet subtly different in this new time. Marvel 1602 combines classic Marvel action and adventure with the histortically accurate setting of Queen Elizabeth's reign to create a unique series unlike any other published by Marvel Comics.
