IDW Announces All-Ages Marvel Action: Avengers #1 Creative Team

Matthew K. Manning and Jon Sommariva Usher In a New Age for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in December

SAN DIEGO, CA (September 19, 2018) – IDW Publishing announces today its exciting line-up of creators for the all-new Marvel Action: Avengers comic book series for younger readers, based on Marvel’s most popular Super Hero team. Marvel Action: Avengers will be helmed by writer Matthew K. Manning and artist Jon Sommariva, introducing a dynamic roster to battle a mega-sized threat, weirder and wilder than any faced before!

“I’m really excited about working on Marvel Action: Avengers – we’re planning big, blockbuster plots, surprising twists, and both returning villains and new threats,” says Manning. “We’ll be digging into the personalities of these heroes to show all the fans – kids and adults both – exactly what makes them so great.”

“I am absolutely thrilled and inspired to be drawing some of the most iconic characters in the history of comics,” says Sommariva. “I grew up with these characters, so it's a real joy to bring my high energy to the visual style of Marvel Action: Avengers. I can't wait to make fun, action-packed comics for fans of all ages!"

In addition to writing Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Batman / TMNT Adventures crossover for IDW, Matthew K. Manning has proven his knowledge of the Marvel Universe as author of the DK Publishing books Iron Man: The Ultimate Guide to the Armored Super Hero and The Avengers Encyclopedia.

Jon Sommariva’s kept very busy at IDW over recent years, illustrating several licensed projects aimed at all ages: Star Wars Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Amazing Adventures, and – partnered with future Avengers collaborator Manning – Batman / TMNT Adventures.

"We're incredibly excited to work with Marvel to bring in a new era of all-ages Avengers comics,” says Bobby Curnow, Group Editor at IDW Publishing. “Having worked with the creative team in the past, and seeing the material they are cooking up, I'm eager for this book to get in the hands of readers. The enthusiasm and love of comics in this book is absolutely infectious and will be sure to create a new generation of Avengers fans.”

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  • Disney owns Marvel, but supports its competitors.

    IDW publishes Avengers for kids, Star Wars for kids and the Ducks.

    Archie publishes Marvel digests.

    Have I missed any?

  • Again, it seems Marvel does not want to produce its heroes in "Kids' Books/Movies" so it lets others do them.

  • Disney Princess books at Joe Books.

  • Is it that they don't want to or don't know how? They would probably have to hire an editor, writers and artists specifically for this. I'm sure it makes more economic sense to have IDW do it. It seems to me that this Avengers title, along with the Star Wars and Duck titles, should be available outside of comic shops. Are they?

    Philip Portelli said:

    Again, it seems Marvel does not want to produce its heroes in "Kids' Books/Movies" so it lets others do them.

  • They did once with their "Marvel Age" lines.

    And are comics still available outside of comic shops?

    Richard Willis said:

    Is it that they don't want to or don't know how? They would probably have to hire an editor, writers and artists specifically for this. I'm sure it makes more economic sense to have IDW do it. It seems to me that this Avengers title, along with the Star Wars and Duck titles, should be available outside of comic shops. Are they?

    Philip Portelli said:

    Again, it seems Marvel does not want to produce its heroes in "Kids' Books/Movies" so it lets others do them.

  • ... Philip asks a question I've been meaning to ask here - To what extent are standard-format comic books still available at newsstand accounts? When I left San Francisco about a year ago, there was one - rather atypical - newsstand place I knew of that carried funnybooks - a surviving " out-of-town/ international newsstand " called Fog City News, on Market Street in the Business District heading towards the Embarcadero. which did carry a quite nicely racked selection of DC titles! Funny, such places, even when there were more of them, tended to not carry standard-format comic books. But this one did! All priced at $3.99 per, a dollar extra for newsstands, as Marvel did in their later and years. Except for the SCOOBY-DOO! title(the only DC Kids they had), which was $2.99. A ways back I asked here and was told that the newsstand distribution of DC, and DC in general, had nothing to do with the print holdings of Warners, which had been spun off into a separate company, Time Inc., I believe...and which have, as of now, been completely broken up/diaspora-ized, though I've yet to look up the details of it, as I've many to --- Anyway, Fig City News. SF. Greeting cards and upscale chocolates, too. More " normally ", as I've said before, the frequently-mentioned-here Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble, I suppose, still have 'em? I've never even seen a B1,000,000 and I haven't been to a B&N for a long time.

      As for Marvel publishing kids' versions of the MU, several posts back in What Comic Books,,,? " I mention a recent title, called MARVEL SUPER-HEROES ADVENTURES, that appears, from the main portion of the story, to be aimed at a younger still audience than most Adventures titles, more a " wee ones/nursery " demographic...This concept fascinates me and I'll discuss it more later!!!!!!!

  • A few years ago I used to see a handful of regular comics at 7-11. I haven't see any recently. 

    The Grand Comics Database, when there was a lot of overlap in newsstand and comic shop titles, shows comic covers that are differently marked to differentiate returnable from non-returnable comics. If they still have newsstand/nonreturnable comics they must be tracking them by retailer rather than cover appearance because I can't seem to find any recent "newsstand edition"  cover images on GCD. I suppose it's possible that ALL retailers are now buying nonreturnable comics, which would account for fewer and fewer retailers that aren't dedicated comic shops.

  • Or...There were a few weird cases of comics from a comic-book company being licensed to another company for a newsstands edition - I recall a Young Indiana Jones comic, for one. For a famous example, remember Gladstone"s second attempt at traditional Disney comics - WDC&S, et al - ? Those were newsstand distributed as Marvels - Anyway, with an extra credit box, IIRC.

  • ...Remember in the 90s when Marvel tried some 2-dollar titles? There were newsstand repackages of two of those as s 48-page flip book, for $1.99. Charlton, in their 80s final days, distributed other companies to comics shops and. so as not to compete, published their own titles - Probably all reprints - for newsstands only. I remember some 90s boom period Malibu's having both " comics shop covers " and " newsstand covers - THE PROTECTORS. etc. I recall the newsstand covers being plenty awful! The newsstand covers were available to newsstand s, which meant three different covers, actually. Remember a period when CRACKED was owned by a publisher of supermarket tabloids? At that time. Cracked got branded metal supermarket check-out racks, as did the tabs.

  • The ones I remember were DC and/or Marvel and I think they were regular titles, not licensed characters. But it's been a long time.

    Emerkeith Davyjack said:

    Or...There were a few weird cases of comics from a comic-book company being licensed to another company for a newsstands edition - I recall a Young Indiana Jones comic, for one. For a famous example, remember Gladstone"s second attempt at traditional Disney comics - WDC&S, et al - ? Those were newsstand distributed as Marvels - Anyway, with an extra credit box, IIRC.

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