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MARVEL SUPER STORIES de Marvel Entertainment

The first–ever middle–grade anthology from Marvel Comics, featuring all–new comics stories by 15 all–star cartoonists.

MARVEL SUPER STORIES
(Book One)
by Marvel Entertainment with various contributors; edited by John Jennings
Amulet/Abrams, October 2023

Welcome to the Marvel Universe and the World Outside Your Window! The first volume in a brand–new middle–grade anthology series with Marvel Comics, edited by John Jennings. All of your favorite Marvel super heroes are here in all–new six page stories written and illustrated by some of the biggest names in comics for young readers. These mighty team–ups include—

Black Panther: Jerry Craft (New Kid),

Wiccan: Mike Curato (Flamer), Miles Morales

Spider–Man: C. G. Esperanza (Soul Food Sunday),

Iron Man: John Gallagher (Max Meow),

Shang–Chi: Gale Galligan (The Baby–Sitters Club),

The Hulk: Chris Giarrusso (G–Man),

Spider–Man: Nathan Hale (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales),

Captain America: Michael Lee Harris (Choco Leche),

Hawkeye: Ben Hatke (Zita the Spacegirl),

Ms. Marvel: Priya Huq (Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab),

Daredevil: John Jennings (Kindred: The Graphic Novel Adaptation),

Thor and Loki: George O’Connor (The Olympians),

Namor: Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate),

Squirrel Girl: Maria Scrivan (Nat Enough), and

Ghost Spider: Jessi Zabarsky (Witchlight).

This renowned roster takes a fun, fresh look at Marvel’s greatest super heroes, delivering all–new comics for fans of all ages.

Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly–owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character–based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media.

John Jennings, illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, is associate professor of visual studies at SUNY–Buffalo and has written several works on African American comics creators and is curator of the Megascope imprint at Abrams ComicArts. He lives in Riverside, California.

DEVOUR de Jazmine Joyner, illustré par Anthony Pugh

In this horror graphic novel, American Gods meets Get Out in a dark retelling of the West African legend of Anansi the Spider.

DEVOUR
by Jazmine Joyner; illustrated by Anthony Pugh
Abrams ComicArts, May 2024

In the Deep South, something evil waits in the darkness . . .

This horror graphic novel tells the story of the Turner family, who move to Alabama to care for their ailing matriarch, Vassie, when she begins suffering from dementia. But Vassie isn’t just any old lady; she’s the last of a line of powerful root women who have been caring for the community since her ancestors were first captured and enslaved by white plantation owners. When Patsy takes a closer look at the Turner family home, what she finds is beyond her wildest nightmares.

In a magical room beneath the house, Patsy discovers the source of her family’s legendary skills: the Ghanaian spider god Anansi. Driven mad by the suffering of the enslaved Africans who worshipped him, Anansi was eventually captured and contained by Patsy’s ancestors.

With their legacy and the god’s imprisonment in the balance, Patsy and her brother, Demetrius, will have to take up their grandmother’s mantle—while she can still remember who they are.

DEVOUR is a terrifying new fable that delivers thrills and chills in equal measure.

Jazmine Joyner is a Black disabled nonbinary femme who has been working in various parts of the comics industry for years. They are based in Southern California and have written for Women Write About Comics, The Comics MNT, and others. DEVOUR is their debut graphic novel.

Anthony Pugh has worked on various projects in the creative industry, including marketing, advertising, storyboard art, character design, and comic book art. Anthony has worked with companies like IDW, Comedy Central, Ogilvy x Adidas, Kid Robot, and Pepsi Cola.

THE VANISHING STATION d’Ana Ellickson

A lyrical and bold YA debut about an underground magic system in San Francisco—and the lengths one girl is willing to go to protect the ones she loves.

THE VANISHING STATION
by Ana Ellickson
Amulet/Abrams, April 2024

Eighteen–year–old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her mother’s death. She can’t apply to art school like she’s always dreamed, and she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the top floor while they work to pay back her mother’s hospital bills.

Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworld—he “jumps” train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently, he’s fallen behind on deliveries (and deeper into alcoholism), and if his debts aren’t satisfied, they’re going to take her mother’s house. In an effort to protect her father and save all that remains of her mother, Ruby volunteers to take over her dad’s station and start jumping train lines.

But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and adventure: they’re also doors to trafficking illicit goods and fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious boy who’s helped her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head. Can she free her father and save her mother’s house? Or has she only managed to get herself pulled into the dangerous web her father was trapped in?

Ana Ellickson writes about fierce girls, family curses, and everyday magic. THE VANISHING STATION is her debut novel, inspired by daydreams about jumping portals in the San Francisco subway. Roman the Renegade–her graphic novel script about street art and Filipino monsters–was awarded the 2021 New Visions Honor by Lee & Low Books. She lives in sunny Santa Barbara.

WELCOME TO THE WOOFINGTON de Donna Gephart et Lori Haskins Houran, illustré par Josh Cleland

A paw–some new full–color chapter book series about a hotel for dogs!

WELCOME TO THE WOOFINGTON
(THE WOOFINGTON #1)
by Donna Gephart and Lori Haskins Houran, illustrated by Josh Cleland
Amulet/Abrams, May 2024

Welcome to the Woofington, where the water bowls are always full and there’s kibble on every pillow! Rufus and his boss, Ms. Coco, work hard to make every guest feel like a VIP (Very Important Pooch).

It’s the grand opening of the hotel, and Rufus and Ms. Coco want everything to be pawfect. Especially for their VIP guest, movie star Greta Garbark. How can Rufus keep the pup–parazzi from hounding Ms. Garbark? And what will Ms. Coco do when a (very itchy) problem hits the hotel?

With adorable illustrations and hilarious text, this new early chapter book series will hit young dog lovers smack in the funny bone!

Donna Gephart’s award–winning middle–grade novels include Lily and Dunkin, Death by Toilet Paper, How to Survive Middle School and others. Her first picture book, Go Be Wonderful, is a celebration of being perfectly imperfect. She’s worked as an editor at a greeting card company, a creative writing teacher at a high school, and as an indie bookseller. She lives in South Jersey with her family and her canine office assistant, Benji, a sweet retriever mix.

Lori Haskins Houran is a former children’s book editor and the author of more than 55 books for kids, including Next to You, a School Library Journal Best Picture Book; the Kirkus–starred Button Your Buttons; and Close Your Eyes, which SLJ called “a perfect bedtime work, filled with sly humor.” She lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts with her husband, four boys, and two rascally rescue dogs.

Josh Cleland is an illustrator working out of his home studio just outside of Portland, Oregon, where he resides with his wife, Rayna, and creative director/dog, Newman. Some of his recent illustrated children’s books include Fridge–opolis, The End, Chomp Chomp Dino, New York, Go!, Trick–or–Treat Songs, and Portland Baby. His work can also be found in various children’s magazines including Highlights and Storytime, as well as as greeting cards, games, and more.

A ROSE, A BRIDGE, AND A WILD BLACK HORSE de Charlotte Zolotow, illustré par Julie Morstad

A fresh new edition of a classic picture book by a legendary author and a beloved illustrator, about a girl and her mother, with themes of growing up, dreams, and letting go.

A ROSE, A BRIDGE, AND A WILD BLACK HORSE
by Charlotte Zolotow; illustrated by Julie Morstad; afterword by Crescent Dragonwagon
Cameron Kids/Abrams, March 2024

A girl declares all the things she’ll do for her mother when she is all grown up—from climbing mountains and swimming across oceans, to picking the pinkest rose, to building the biggest bridge and a castle for her mother to live in, to taming a wild black horse for her mother to ride—ending with the friend she will bring her mother to keep her company while she travels the world.

Originally published in 1964, A ROSE, A BRIDGE, AND A WILD BLACK HORSE is a new edition of a beloved picture book by renowned children’s book author Charlotte Zolotow, reenvisioned by her daughter, celebrated author Crescent Dragonwagon, and illustrated by award–winning artist Julie Morstad.

The book includes an afterword by Crescent Dragonwagon about her mother and this special new edition of their book.

Charlotte Zolotow was a children’s book editor for HarperCollins, where she edited hundreds of books over her 50–year career. In addition to editing, she authored over 90 books for young readers, including William’s Doll, which has been in print for over 50 years, and the original version of A ROSE, A BRIDGE, AND A WILD BLACK HORSE, published in 1964 by Harper & Row, which featured a brother and his younger sister.

Crescent Dragonwagon is the author of more than 50 books for readers of all ages, including a new edition of her 1977 classic Will It Be Okay?, illustrated by Jessica Love and published by Cameron Kids. Crescent is the daughter of and literary executor for her late mother, Charlotte Zolotow. A native New Yorker, Crescent lives in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Julie Morstad is an award–winning fine artist, author, and illustrator. Her illustrations can be found in numerous picture books, including The Dress and the Girl, published by Abrams. Julie lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.