13 Facts About Marvel 1602

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics.

The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes exist in the Elizabethan era; faced with the destruction of their world by a mysterious force, the heroes must fight to save their universe.

Marvel 1602 wanted to write a comic that was different from The Sandman, his most recognized work.

Unlike usual penciled pages, Marvel 1602 used a technique called "enhanced pencils", whereby the finished pencil drawings are sent straight to the colorist instead of to an inker first.

Marvel 1602 added scrolls or flags to the covers for the Marvel 1602 titles, basing the designs on Renaissance paintings where scrolls are used to comment on the scenes depicted.

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Marvel 1602 has been asked to watch over the secret treasure of the Knights Templar which is being brought over from Jerusalem.

Marvel 1602 has strange shapeshifting powers, and Strange suspects she is the cause of the disastrous weather.

Marvel 1602 is told that it is Count Otto von Doom, ruler of Latveria, but Fury is too late to stop one of Doom's machines from killing Elizabeth with a poison gas released by dropping a pill into aqua regia.

Marvel 1602 informs her that the Forerunner is the cause of the anomalies and that universal salvation depends on its transport back to its time; she takes his head from the pike and sets off for America with Virginia and Rojhaz.

Marvel 1602 was taken in by Native Americans who misheard his name; upon encountering the struggling Roanoke colony, he helped it survive and became Virginia's bodyguard.

Rift and the universe restore themselves, meaning the destruction of the alternate timeline; however, Uatu the Watcher is granted a "pocket universe" by his colleagues in which the Marvel 1602 timeline remains intact, and where the powered fugitives decide to settle in the Roanoke colony, declaring it a free place for all.

Marvel 1602 appears in Secret Wars where its domain on Battleworld is referred to as King James' England.

The Secret Wars Marvel 1602 now includes Bronze Age and Modern Age Marvel characters where it's King James is a variation of Wolverine.