Marvel Celebrates 50 years of ‘Giant-Size’ Comics

Marvel’s Bronze Age included tales so big, the publisher had to come up with a new name for them — GIANT-SIZE comics! To celebrate 50 years of the super-sized issues, Marvel will introduce all-new GIANT-SIZE one-shots featuring heroes from across the Marvel Universe.

You can read more about the publisher’s plans below, with more information from their press release:

First up, MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN scribe Cody Ziglar and Marvel Stormbreaker artist Iban Coello spin a showdown between the next generation’s Spider-Man and Venom in GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #1! Dylan Brock has a bone…or a brain…to pick with Miles Morales in a GIANT-SIZED Spidey story that can’t be missed! GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #1 will also reprint ULTIMATE COMICS: SPIDER-MAN #22 by Spidey-legends Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli that features the epic conclusion of Miles' first battle with Ultimate Venom!

And that’s not all! In December, Marvel proudly re-presents the very first Giant-Size title ever, GIANT-SIZE SUPER-STARS #1, in a special facsimile edition. Experience one of the all-time great Marvel comic books from industry legends Gerry Conway and Rich Buckler, in its original form, ads and all! The Thing and the Hulk have one of the most powerhouse rivalries in the entire Marvel Universe—and in 1974, it spilled out of the pages of both of their own books into a double-length slobberknocker!