A curious item celebrating 80 years of Marvel comics, not that they were called that for the first few decades, and even if you think in terms of the internal timeline, well, some bits of that still sit where they were (Captain America is still a product of the Second World War), and others have been shifted up (Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider well after the fall of the Twin Towers – which at least means that dreadful 9/11 issue never happened). But every page has to be tied to a...

8.5 goodThis was a very fun comic book to celebrate the 80 years of marvel comics. The theme Is very vague in this comic book but majority of pages written by al Ewing is linked to this mask crusader. It's very fun and goofy, not supposed to be taken seriously. It's a very light hearted ckmjc book. Love how the art is different on each page. It just shows what happens through the hears and is a MUSTVREAD for any marvel fan. However I cant give it more than an 8.5 sicne it will be an over praise....

The promise of a great sweep of Marvel Comics history, some joy, but just shown with greater clarity, wqhy I need to stop reading these works. The revisions only disturb me, and the beauty is superficial. The world turns and the relics of the past are defiled by the successive generations, I will wait for the next turn of the carousel and hope the next ring will actually be of brass, rather than the dross they attempt to pawn off today.

a fine tribute to marvel with a new(?) story intertwined called the masked raider. The new story is cool, has a Brubaker vibe which I liked. The tribute stories are just 1 page but are fun, some better than others. The art is really awesome, so many artists and styles. A good book to have sitting on a coffee table.

A brilliant retrospective of a magnificent, long running universe; that was much better than I thought it’d be, that’s for sure! As per usual when it comes to anthologies, some are better than others; but all of the stories convey a sense of care for the characters that makes it such a pleasant read. With each story, you’re also getting the history of Marvel Comics which progresses the stories in real time, which is neat. What stole the show were definitely Al Ewing’s stories that were woven tog...

To celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics Marvel put together Marvel Comics #1000 and Marvel Comics #1001. It is comprise of over 110 single page stories by numerous creative teams (100+!). There are three main themes, an ongoing mystery spanning the 80 years of the Marvel universe, mostly written by Al Ewing but with numerous individual creators, centred around the Eternity Mask.This story, that attempts to create a conspiracy that is rooted in the birth of the Marvel universe and has continued to...

This was a neat idea for a comic. 80 one-page comics. One for each year, all by different creative teams. Although this was completely abandoned for the #1001 issue which is just a bunch of random one-page comics. Of course, it's difficult to write a great one-page comic so most of these are middling at best. Al Ewing writes a bunch of the comics. Those all have a story running through them about this secret Enclave and a mask with some kind of powers called the Eternity Mask. It wasn't all that...

This was a mix bag. Some fun stories, especially the Spider-man stuff. I liked almost all the stories in there for him. There's also one shots here and there that worked really well. Then some that were dull and did nothing for me. All mattered which story. Either way worth reading for the accomplishment of getting to 1,000!

Like most jam issues that have a bunch of writers and artists involved, this is a mix bag, with some good and bad stuff. The Al Ewing story that runs throughout is pretty good. I like how they’ve started a thread with the original human torch and managed to bring it into the modern day. Some of the other highlights are also the Spider-man page by Slott and Marcos Martin, the Hulk page by Alex Ross and even the Daredevil page by Quesada is good. But there’s other stuff here that just lands flat a...

A nice anthology celebrating Marvel’s long history. I like how creative both the writers and artists were able to get only having a page to tell a story. I also like how each story correlated to something that happened that year.

This almost got a 2.5 star rating but some cool stories popped up toward the end. The coolest part of this was the mystical mask story running thru the issue. The rest is as most have said here, a mixed bag. I mean you have one page to tell some kind of story. Some were useless, some were just Ok and some were actually pretty cool.

Any anthology series is going to be a mixed bag, and this certainly was that. Unfortunately for every good one-page story, there were three mediocre (or just plain bad ones). 80 years of publishing comics is certainly an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this was a neat idea that just didn't really come together in the execution. The first issue, Marvel Comics # 1000, devotes one page to each of Marvel's 80 years of publishing, and while it's a neat tour through Marvel's history, I found som...

Interesting tribute that is both pushing forward a story I would like to see with tributes mixed in.I have no idea way the 1001 material wasn’t just worked into 1000. It would have made more sense.

Ridiculously long... took almost a month to get through. A semi-coherent story mixed in with fun weird little whimsys. The Nemo in Slumberland was my favorite.

This issue was a hot mess. The stories were mostly uninteresting, and I thought the main thread was hard to follow. I wish I had skipped this one altogether.

I really, really enjoyed this enormous collection of single-page stories from the entire eighty year history of the Marvel Universe. It really is incredible what some creators can do in just a single page; some of them even made me shed a wee tear (that's 'wee' in the Scottish sense, you sickos).The only reason I'm not giving this the full 5 stars is because, well, in any anthology there are going to be the occasional pieces that don't quite live up to the standard of the rest. Also, I can't bri...

So many amazing things in this. I love it.

Very cool collection with some of my favourite creators in marvel history for sure. Basically each creator/ creative team gets one page to Focus on 1 year in marvel history. Obviously some of the picks can't be memorable for everyone, and everything pre 90's for me was a history lesson of course. Still it's a fun concept and a great way to celebrate marvel's 80th b-day. I feel like this would be better to read in small doses like the daily newspaper funnies. It's a barrage on the senses to read

This hardcover contains issue #1000 and #1001.For someone who's been reading Marvel Comics for decades, this was a fun trip down memory lane. Each page marks a significant "event" in Marvel Comics, for example: First appearance of a particular character, first Iron Man movie, etc. That page is usually reverential to whatever significance that event had. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's an epilogue. For the most part, they are really well done, both writing and art, able to fit an idea or emo...