Marvel Weddings

by Stan Lee, Jim Shooter, David Michelinie

Reed and Sue, heart and soul of Marvel's First Family of Super-Heroes. Peter and Mary Jane, the spider and the supermodel. Scott and Jean, childhood sweethearts sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them. Break out the tissue, True Believer: The House of Ideas cordially invites you to celebrate the history-making nuptials of its greatest couples in this keepsake edition! From the Fantastic Four to Spider-Man to the X-Men, with a few surprises in between, this commemorative volume proves that the power of love can overcome all obstacles!

Genres: X Men, Spider Man, Comics, Graphic Novels

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 2005

About the author

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Reviews

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading the Spider-Man wedding was like visiting an old friend

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

If there’s anything better than romance comics or superhero comics it’s romantic superhero comics, aka superheroes getting married. If you agree with me then this violently romantic book is for you.
The book is a compilation of superhero wedding stories that always end up in supervillains crashing the nuptials and ass smashing punch-ups breaking out! Stories include Spiderman marrying Mary Jane Watson, Bruce(Hulk smash)Banner gittin’ hitched to Betty Ross, and Scott Summers/Cyclops of the X-Men finally tying the knot with Jean Grey/Marvel Girl. Get out your handkerchiefs for this one!

[Simeon Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a really interesting time with this, as a collection of all the pre 2000 Marvel wedding issues it's obviously gonna be a mixed bag but man, it really helped me come to term with my issues with pre 80s comics. For the longest time I've always said I don't have a lot of interest in that stuff because I just couldn't get into a story that followed those early writing tenants and dialogue style, but reading through this I realized that there is a way to do this style well and make it an engaging read, I just hadn't seen it yet. Sure some of these I still have the issues I've always had with this era, the wedding of Quicksilver and Crystal in particular was hard to sit through. But overall this was some good fun and a great learning experience for me so I'd highly recommend it, especially if like me going into this, you haven't read any of these stories before.

[debo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m not a comic book reader but I do love all things romance. This was great to relate to the comic book lovers and marvel lovers in my life.

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some really fun stories here. Of course, Reed & Sue's wedding is a particular favorite as Jack Kirby really pulled out all the stops in trying to throw in every Marvel hero and villain (at the time) he could. It's a crazy no-holds-barred Kirby-extravaganza that everyone who was bored at a wedding as a kid would have loved. On the more sedate side we have Peter & Mary Jane's wedding and Cyclops & Marvel Girl/Phoenix/Jean Grey's wedding, the latter is the only really disappointing one because the art was rather rushed and the coloring was absolutely horrible - blotchy and uneven, a 10-year-old with crayons could have done better (particularly glaring because the coloring was so good with all the other stories). The memorable Wasp & Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/Yellowjacket wedding was a good inclusion as was the Quicksilver & Crystal wedding that offered a crossover wight he Avengers and the Fantastic Four, two other stories from my youth i enjoyed many times. But the other really great story was John Byrne's tale of the wedding of the Hulk, Bruce Banner & Betty Ross. Ah, nothing like a good Beauty and the Beast story to bring a tear to your eye.

Perhaps a second volume is in order with Black Bolt & Medusa; Northstar & Kyle; Human Torch & Alicia Masters; Luke Cage, Power Man & Jessica Jones; Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan & Patsy Walker, the Hellcat; the Vision & the Scarlet Witch and, of course, the always spectacular Black Panther and the one-and-only Ororo, aka Storm. True Believes can always hope.

[SBF · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this mainly for the Spider-Weddding (which sadly wasn't included in the otherwise great "You Just Hit The Jackpot" collection from Marvel). But I was pleasantly surprised by the other wedding stories. The best in the entire collection is likely Scott Summers and Jean Grey's wedding in 1994. I wasn't crazy over the artwork but it's a very sweet story, made all the better by it being a simple wedding story: no supervillains attacking. It's beautifully narrated by Professor Xavier, a great choice given Jean and Scott are two of the original X-Men from 1971. Reading this collection, I noticed how much comic weddings remind me of soap opera weddings. Just getting to the altar takes years. Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson's nuptials were my second-favourite: as one of the two great comic romances (the other being Clark Kent and Lois Lane), it was wonderful to see them finally tie the knot--even if the story did spend a little too much time on the "are we doing the right thing" angle, which is played to death in comic romances, and especially so in Spider-Man. The Fantastic Four wedding of Reed and Sue was fun but had very little to do with the actual wedding, unfortunately. However, it's saved by being a great action story, and the cameo by two familiar would-be wedding crashers, who crash right through the fourth wall. This collection is definitely worth picking up if you're a romantic at heart.

[Mollie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very sweet collection of the major marriage moments in the Marvel universe. In reading this anthology, you do lose a bit of the story line because you are not reading it along with the actual comic that surrounds it but the authors are always good enough to explain what is going on and all of them are standalones so we can all read about the wedding. Spiderman and Mary Jane, Scott Summers and Jean Grey, Yellowjacket and Wasp, Bruce Banner and Betty Ross, Reed and Sue Richards, Quicksilver and Crystal- all had beautiful comic books devoted to their weddings. This is a great book for comic book fans who are recently married (such as myself) or anyone who just needs a little bit of awwwwwwww in their day.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collections like this are a great way to step into the very, very vast world of comics. The stories selected range from early to modern, and it's interesting to see the changes in storytelling as the craft evolved.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very sweet little collection. Got it for the cover story as I'd never read the Spidey wedding story. It was the weakest link. Inked by Vince Coletta. It's actually a two-part story, with the honeymoon in Paris with Mary Jane not collected in this book. Felt a bit robbed on that point. The rest of the book is great though.