Marvel Press

Marvel Press

Parent company	Marvel Worldwide
Status	active
Founded	2003
Founder	Marvel Entertainment
Headquarters location	New York, NY
Key people	Ruwan Jayatilleke, SVP
Publication types	novels
Fiction genres	Superhero

Marvel Press is the prose novel imprint for Marvel Comics jointly published with Disney Books.

History

In 2003, following publication of the prose young adult novel Mary Jane, starring Mary Jane Watson from the Spider-Man mythos, Marvel announced the formation of the publishing imprint Marvel Press, saying in a press release it planned to launch with three prose novels, aimed at various ages, in 2004, and publish at least 12 in 2005.^[1] With few books issued under the imprint, Marvel and Disney Books Group relaunched the Marvel Press imprint in 2011 with the Marvel Origin Storybooks line.^[2]

Reference

1. ^ Weiland, Jonah (May 26, 2004). "Marvel Announces Creation of New Prose Imprint, Marvel Press". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on August 24, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/61BQDXKZC. Retrieved 24 August 2011. 
2. ^ Alverson, Brigid (July 15, 2011). "SDCC ’11 | Disney to unveil Marvel Press imprint at San Diego". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on Sep 25, 2011. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2c6GX67UY34J:robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/sdcc-11-disney-to-unveil-marvel-press-imprint-at-san-diego/+Marvel+Press&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1. Retrieved 28 September 2011. 

See also

• Marvel Books
• List of novels based on Marvel Comics