Marvel Masterworks

Marvel Masterworks is an American collection of hardcover and trade paperback comic book reprints published by Marvel Comics, with the main goal of republishing classic Marvel Comics storylines in a hardcover, premium edition, often with restored artwork and better graphical quality when compared to other Marvel collected editions. The collection started in 1987, with volumes reprinting the issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The Avengers. The Masterworks line has expanded from such reprints of the 1960s period that fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books to include the 1930s–1940s Golden Age; comics of Marvel's 1950s pre-Code forerunner, Atlas Comics; and even some reprints from the 1970s period called the Bronze Age of Comic Books. In 2023, Fantagraphics began releasing hardcover collections of Atlas and Marvel Comics that Marvel had neglected to issue themselves. Marvel announced that the series would be going on hiatus after volume 389, effectively cancelling the next volume, which was to be The Defenders vol. 10. DC Comics launched DC Archive Editions in 1989, their equivalent of the Marvel Masterworks line.