Marvel Two-in-One v.2 #1
“Fast Burn”
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Pencils: Jim Cheung
Inks: John Dell & Walden Wong
Colors: Frank Martin
Editor: Tom Brevoort
FF origin backup
Writer: Robbie Thompson
Pencils: Greg Land
Inks: Jay Leisten
Colors: Frank D’Armata
Editor: Darren Shan
Letters: Joe Caramagna
Cover artists: Jim Cheung (regular)/Alex Ross, Arthur Adams, Mike McKone, John Byrne, Jon Malin, Jack Kirby & John Tyler Christopher (variants)
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Price: $3.99 US
One of the first trade-paperback collections of comics I ever acquired was Marvel Two-in-One: Project Pegasus book; this would have been back in the very early days of book-sized reprints of comics in the 1980s. I still have that trade paperback; it’s worn to hell, but I absolutely love it. I got on board with the team-up title trend with DC Comics Presents in late 1979 or early 1980. I was mesmerized by the logos for two heroes on the cover of each issue. I quickly gravitated to The Brave and the Bold, and after taking the plunge into the Marvel Universe in the mid-1980s, I eagerly sought out issues of Marvel Team-Up and, of course, Marvel Two-In-One. The 1980s were the heyday of those team-up titles. Attempts at revivals never had the same staying power as those original books.
I’m hoping the same can’t be said of this relaunch, which offers strong traditional super-hero storytelling tempered with a more modern sensibility toward characterization. And should the publisher keep top-tier talent such as Jim Cheung on the book, I’d say there’s a strong chance it could make a nice, long go of it.
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