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Questions about Marvel Saga

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 10:13 pm
by Jason Doty
I know Marvel Saga has new scenes which are incorperated into the characters chronologies. My question are:

To what point does the series go? In other words what Marvel event does it end with? I have 1-24 and not 25. and is the series narrated by anyone revealed at the end?, or is it more of an source book type of read?

Re: Questions about Marvel Saga

Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:35 pm
by Peter Fabricius
There are 25 issues (I have all 25).
And it is the Watcher who is the narrator, of course. He appears on the very last page.

Re: Questions about Marvel Saga

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:02 am
by Jason Doty
Is he watching this unfold from roughly 1985 or from an earlier time in Marvel history, and shouldn't he get a behind the scenes entry for 1-24 and an actual appearance in no.25?

Re: Questions about Marvel Saga

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:29 pm
by Peter Fabricius
Hard to pin down exactly.

The main retelling stops after the FF first encounter Galactus, and then there is a brief 3 page summary of events up to the death of Dark Phoenix and the Celestials judgment from approx. #300 of Thor. So it has to be after that point of time.

I would say he should have an actual appearance in #25

Re: Questions about Marvel Saga

Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:45 pm
by Chris McCarver
After the Galactus retelling, the book spent two pages doing capsule synopses of events that followed closely thereafter:

Thor's defeat of the Demon (JIM 124)
Namor regaining the Atlantean throne (TTA 74)
The end of the Hulk's servitude to the Leader (TTA 74/2)
Dr. Strange seeing Dormammu being trapped in another dimension by Eternity (ST 146/2)
Nick Fury capturing HYDRA's NYC headquarters (ST 140)
Daredevil defeating the Organizer and helping Ka-Zar regain his title (DD 12-14)
The Avengers's first meeting with the Swordsman (A 19-20)
Iron Man's first battle with the Titanium Man (TOS 69-72)
The X-Men's first run-in with Sentinels (UX 14-16)
Spider-Man's prolonged conflict with the "Master Planner," a.k.a. Dr. Octopus (ASM 33)

From there the book spent a page chronicling a number of universe-changing events from that point on up to T 300 when the Celestials judged humanity worthy of survival, then another where the Watcher delivers a closing monologue.