Marvel Released August 1995

Ruins #1

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Published August 1995
Pages 32

As a counterpoint to the legendary Marvels series, Warren Ellis explores a Marvel universe where absolutely everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong. Reporter Phil Sheldon investigates a dark and hopeless world where no supermen or women were created from amazing accidents, instead they have all died horrible deaths, or worse.

Key Facts

  • Two-part story that gives a dark perspective of the superhero influence in the real world, opposite of Kurt Busiek's 'Marvels' series, details include: Jean Grey is a prostitute, Captain Marvel and the Kree afflicted with cancer are confined to a Nevada reservation and Spider-Man contracts a radioactive virus from the spider bite

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