Marvel 1602

Marvel 1602, launched in 2005 by Marvel, reimagines the publisher’s iconic heroes in the Elizabethan era, blending swashbuckling adventure with the dawn of the Age of Discovery. The series is most closely associated with the distinctive, woodcut-style cover art of Scott McKowen, whose work gives the alternate-history world a timeless, theatrical weight. Though a single-issue series, it matters as a bold, self-contained experiment that proved Marvel’s characters could thrive in any century.