Classic Marvel icons such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil appear in this intriguing world of 17th-century science and sorcery, instantly familiar to readers, yet subtly different in this new time. In Marvel 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and artists Andy Kubert present a unique vision of the Marvel universe set four hundred years in the past.

Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole world ends? 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. News is spreading of 'witchbreed' sightings- young men bearing fantastic superhuman powers and abilities. 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 mad despot named Doom. Stephen Strange senses that the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. The year is 1602, and strange things are stirring in England. Neil Gaiman's vision of the Marvel Universe in the year 1602!

(Click panels for larger images.) _ Featured Characters: But I fear that in any universe my path will be marked with blood.” I hope there's one of them where I chose to walk another path. “Reed says that God made a thousand, thousand worlds, each like this one, only different.

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