Minor League Marvel
It’s truly amazing to think how far comics have come since the 1950s in this country. While still fighting for total acceptance as a legitimate, high art in some circles, the medium is definitely embraced and loved by the mainstream now. A perfect example of this is a new cross-promotional book between Marvel and Minor League Baseball this summer, with talks of more books in 2008.
The title, “Triple-A Baseball Heroes,” will be given away at 30 different cities with Triple-A minor-league baseball teams, to the first 5,000 fans at each game. This is probably of particular notice to the collector-minded, as odd, small-run stuff like this tends to get valuable.
The stories seem to range from heroes versus mascots to the obvious "heroes are at a game and a villain shows up" scenario -- and were written by Chris Eliopoulos. The art looks great and was handled by Robert Adkins, Rick Ketchum and Drew Geraci.
To see comics really re-accepted into the Americana mainstream to the degree that they were before Dr. Wertham and the Comics Code Authority, or CCA, reared their ugly head is a great thing ... a shame it took 60 years to gradually happen.
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