Title: MARVEL GOLD. The Avengers. THE SAGA OF KORVAC Authors: SHOOTER, PÉREZ, Buscema, WENZEL, ETC.
Publisher: PANINI
Pages: 236
RRP: € 21.95
In early 1978, the then associate editor and writer Jim Shooter was promoted to the rank of editor of Marvel Comics Group, which puts the first the ranks of the successful publishing company founded under the name Timely by Martin Goodman in 1939. Since its baptism as Marvel in the early 1960's, and through the creation of characters such as Spiderman or Hulk recovery of icons like Captain America, the company has experienced a spectacular development that has taken the lead in the sector, and after some years of relative internal disorder, must now create a structure that allows sales and capitalize on high to take a position of leadership. To this end, the new editor creates for himself the title of editor in chief and, from there, gives a flow chart of editors and associate editors who will assume the management of all publications of the house, always under the strict supervision and absolute control of their own editor in chief, that is, of itself.
meantime, just cover dated January
1978, Shooter start writing Korvac saga in the pages of The Avengers. Korvac, a middling villain created by Steve Gerber and Jim Starlin at number 3 of Giant-Size Defenders (1975), has undergone a dramatic transformation that has made us here in a sort of powerful being. For things of omnipotence, Korvac embraced philanthropy, but due to a series of fanciful and ridiculous plot reasons not worth pointing out, just to face life and death with the Avengers. "I'ma god," cries Korvac in the last scene of the number 176, The Avengers, "And it would be ... your savior! Because in the cosmos there is much cruelty and injustice. And I was in a unique position to change that, to put my whole life just and benevolent mandate. " Here own theme of a megalomaniac: the benefactor who is fought and beaten by his inferiors, lacking wisdom and vision of the powerful. The good dictator who renounces his desires, embodied in this tragic soap opera by the selfless and loving Carina and sacrifices in pursuit of the impossible utopia. So, after a long, painful battle epic in which the Avengers to Korvac summarily executed, the only superhero who is finally standing by Thor, Moondragon, confesses: "Now I feel the greatest agony I have ever felt ... I have seen how children first kill the dream ... And then hope!"-where children are battered superheroes lying on the ground and dream and hope with dots and admiration, are who knows what.
And the chiefs, editors in chief, also cry. Javier Fernández