Marvel Comics December 2022 Solicitations Spoilers Teases New Kang Collection That May Hold Clues To Timeless #1 (2022) and 2023?!
Solicitation and cover follows.
KANG: THE SAGA OF THE ONCE AND FUTURE CONQUEROR TPB
Written by STAN LEE, MARK WAID, PETER DAVID, CULLEN BUNN, DAN SLOTT & JED MACKAY
Penciled by JACK KIRBY, ADAM KUBERT, MIKE DEL MUNDO, BRIAN LEVEL, IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA, MATT HORAK, GREG LAND, JOHN ROMITA JR., KEV WALKER & MARK BAGLEY
Cover by KAEL NGUA timeless threat! Kang the Conqueror, the time-traveling despot determined to rule the timestream, has menaced the Avengers and Fantastic Four for years. But when the Vision tries a new strategy against their longtime nemesis, he ignites a temporal war – and Kang’s first strike is a killer! Can a team of Avengers gathered from across time save history? Plus: Kang sends Kamala Khan back to the Avengers’ earliest days; battles symbiotic threats with Spider-Man, Rocket Raccoon, the Black Knight and Monica Rambeau; and targets Moon Knight’s patron, Khonshu! And can the FF survive when Kang’s many personas – from Rama-Tut to Immortus – unite against them?
Collecting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #19; AVENGERS (1963) #8; ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS #13; AVENGERS (2016) #1-6; AVENGERS: BACK TO BASICS #5-6; MOON KNIGHT ANNUAL (2019) #1; SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN: KING IN BLACK #1-5; TIMELESS #1; and material from FANTASTIC FOUR (2018) #35.
512 PGS./Rated T+ …$44.99
ISBN: 978-1-302-95067-5
Trim size: 6-5/8 x 10-3/16
A cover for the tpb has not been released, but here are the covers to the books it collects.
Fantastic Four #19 (First appearance of Kang as Rama-Tut in 1963).
Avengers #8 (First appearance of Kang as Kang in 1964).
All-New All-Different Avengers #13 (Kang appearance from 2016).
Avengers #1 to #6, Avengers Volume 7, 2016-17 (Kang War arc).
Here’s a separate look at the virgin cover art for Avengers #2 from that arc as Alex Ross’ art reveals the various personas Kang has used up to that time from 1963 to 2016:
- Kang (first appearance Avengers #8 in 1964)
- Immortus (first appearance in Avengers #10 in 1964)
- Scarlet Centurion (first appearance in Avengers Annual #2 in 1968)
- Iron Lad (first appearance in Young Avengers #1 in 2005)
- Rama-Tut (first appearance in Fantastic Four #19 in 1963)
Avengers: Back to Basic #5 to #6 (Kang appearance from 2018).
Moon Knight Annual #1, Volume 2 (Kang in 2019).
Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #1 to #5, 2020 – 2021 (Kang involved in retro tale).
Timeless #1, Volume 1, 2021 (Kang peering into 2022).
Fantastic Four #35, Volume 6, 2021 (Kang part of FF’s 60th anniversary).
Here’s Mark Brook’s virgin cover art for Fantastic Four #35 without the 60th anniversary decals as its quite a nice piece.
A more modern Kang trade paperback, among the several collections Marvel has rightfully collected for Kang, that opens with his first two silver age appearances and then collects his more recent adventures.
I wonder what we can glean from that for Timeless #1 (2022) and its look into 2023.
