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Marvels

Marvels is a four-issue miniseries comic book written by Kurt Busiek, painted by Alex Ross and edited by Marcus McLaurin. It was published by Marvel Comics in 1994. Taking place between 1939 and 1974, the series examines the Marvel Universe, the collective setting of most of Marvel's superhero series, from the perspective of an everyman character, news photographer Phil Sheldon . The street-level series portrays ordinary life in a world full of costumed superhumans, with each issue featuring major events in the Marvel Universe as observed by Sheldon. Marvels won multiple awards and established the careers of Busiek and Ross, who would both return to the "everyday life in a superhero universe" theme in the Image Comics (later Homage Comics and currently DC Comics) series, Astro City.

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Marvels is a four-issue miniseries comic book written by Kurt Busiek, painted by Alex Ross and edited by Marcus McLaurin. It was published by Marvel Comics in 1994. Taking place between 1939 and 1974, the series examines the Marvel Universe, the collective setting of most of Marvel's superhero series, from the perspective of an everyman character, news photographer Phil Sheldon . The street-level series portrays ordinary life in a world full of costumed superhumans, with each issue featuring major events in the Marvel Universe as observed by Sheldon. Marvels won multiple awards and established the careers of Busiek and Ross, who would both return to the "everyday life in a superhero universe" theme in the Image Comics (later Homage Comics and currently DC Comics) series, Astro City.

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  1. publication date: 1994 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1994". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378058284

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