The Press Release:
This summer, Marvel Comics and DC Comics join forces to bring JLA/AVENGERS, the 2003 limited series by legendary creators Kurt Busiek and George Pérez, back to comic shops! The history-making four-issue saga will be boldly re-presented in its original form as new Facsimile Editions with original trade tress and wraparound card stock covers. Marvel Comics will publish JLA/AVENGERS #1 (May) and #3 (July) while DC Comics will publish AVENGERS/JLA #2 (June) and #4 (August). The issues will also feature all-new variant covers.
It’s the grandest Marvel and DC comics crossover of them all and an icon-packed event decades in the making! After years of anticipation, JLA/AVENGERS reunited acclaimed writer Kurt Busiek (Marvels) with his AVENGERS collaborator George Pérez – an artistic legend for both companies – to assemble every single member of Earth’s Mightiest and the World’s Greatest in one blockbuster book! Universes collide as the Justice League fights the towering Terminus and the Avengers face the awesome menace of Starro! Each team must undertake an epic quest on the other’s world, with the fate of both realities in the balance!
Preorder JLA/AVENGERS #1 FACSIMILE EDITION at your local comic shop today, and ask to add all four issues to your pull list!
JLA/AVENGERS #1 FACSIMILE EDITION: Written by KURT BUSIEK; Penciled by GEORGE PÉREZ; Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ; Variant Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
On Sale 5/27
AVENGERS/JLA #2 FACSIMILE EDITION: Written by KURT BUSIEK; Penciled by GEORGE PÉREZ; Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
On Sale 6/24
JLA/AVENGERS #3 FACSIMILE EDITION: Written by KURT BUSIEK; Penciled by GEORGE PÉREZ; Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
On Sale 7/22
AVENGERS/JLA #4 FACSIMILE EDITION: Written by KURT BUSIEK
Penciled by GEORGE PÉREZ; Cover by GEORGE PÉREZ
On Sale 8/26
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PiercingMetal Thoughts: If memory serves me correctly, I don’t recall owning this whole original limited series from the time that it came out. I think I might have the first issue if anything else. This alone makes me interested in securing the facsimile editions but my real hope is for an expanded collected edition of all four of them since there might be additional art and narrative about it all to share. There was a time when I was snapping up every single facsimile edition that I saw but then they began to release far too many of them for my liking. Now its every once in a while when its something special and this particular series falls into the special categorization. It brought fans of both of the iconic teams together in the comic book store to grab their copies and to discuss what they thought about it and where the storyline might be heading. That’s all I’ve got to add about this one so now its all on you out there in the readership. Chime in down below if you want to share your own thoughts and I will see you next time around.
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