1986 - Anatomy of a Cover - Marvel Saga #14

By Keith Pollard

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1986 - Marvel Reference Library House Ad

1986 - Anatomy of a cover - Marvel Saga #3

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1986 - Anatomy of a cover - Marvel Saga #16

By Keith Pollard.

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1985 - Marvel Saga

Here's an internal Marvel Comics memo proposing the idea for the Marvel Saga series (herein named the Marvel History Project). Kind of cool to read.

(grabbed from jimshooter.com)

1985 - The Marvel Saga

Lovely wrap-around cover to Marvel Saga #1 by Ron Frenz.

The Marvel Saga: The Official History of the Marvel Universe was a 25-issue miniseries that served as the Bible of Marvel Comics history. I devoured the over 900+ pages of this Saga as it helped me catch up and fill-in the blanks in Marvel Comics history. Writer and historian Peter Sanderson wove together panels and narrative to chronologically tell the Marvel Saga.

It still stands today as a great reference allowing you to see how all the different Marvel events and storylines fit together in proper order. Issue #25 ended covering the Fantastic Four’s first encounter with Galactus and the Silver Surfer. This series was recently reprinted in two volumes in the Marvel Essentials black-and-white format.

An example of the series’ style and narration:

"Rainbow Bridging" art sequence by Walt Simonson:

Bridging art sequence by Bill Sienkiewicz: