Marvel Previews #98
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMarvel Previews #98 is part of the long-running Marvel Previews catalog series — comic-book-sized, full-color solicitation guides that Marvel distributed through the direct market to help retailers and readers plan their orders two months in advance. Arriving in shops on October 5, 2011, this issue covered the November 2011 release slate, placing it at the tail end of a particularly eventful year for the Ultimate Universe. As a category, the Marvel Previews series occupies an unusual editorial space: not a conventional narrative comic, yet a formally published artifact that sometimes contains the earliest printed images of soon-to-debut characters — making certain issues touchstones for completionist collectors even though, as GoCollect has noted, solicitation appearances are not considered canonical in-story first appearances.
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Marvel Previews launched in 2003 as a companion to Diamond's Previews catalog, giving Marvel dedicated real estate for full-color art, creator interviews, and solicitation copy aimed directly at retailer and fan audiences. Issue #98 carried Diamond order code AUG110002, meaning retailers placed orders for it in August 2011 for an October 5, 2011 in-shop date. The series ran through roughly issue #109 before Marvel restructured its solicitation publishing; no creative team in the conventional sense produced individual issues — content was assembled by Marvel's marketing and editorial departments from solicitation copy, cover art, and promotional pages supplied by the titles being previewed.
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- Marvel Previews #98 arrived in comic shops on October 5, 2011, with Diamond order code AUG110002, previewing Marvel's November 2011 release slate.
- The series is a full-color, comic-book-sized solicitation guide distributed through the direct market, not a conventional narrative comic.
- Issue #98 is part of the first volume of Marvel Previews (2003–2011), which ran approximately 109 issues before being restructured.
- Collector interest in the Marvel Previews series as a whole is driven by issues on which major characters make their first printed cover appearances — notably, Miles Morales appeared on the cover of Marvel Previews #95 (June 2011), three issues before #98.
- Solicitation appearances in Marvel Previews are generally not considered canonical in-story first appearances by the collector community, as they are promotional in nature rather than narrative.
- The Marvel Previews series was produced by Marvel's marketing and editorial departments rather than a credited creative team, distinguishing it from standard comic book production.
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