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Marvel Next was a short lived imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 that was launched by the American
United States

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 comics publisher Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
 in early 2005
2005 in comics

Events...
. It was designed to spotlight several unrelated titles that featured young protagonists. Like the Tsunami imprint before it, it aimed to attract young readers. Marvel Next titles carried a "Marvel Next" tag on the cover, but not in the place imprint names generally carry their logos. The title may have been an attempt to appeal to or identify with Generation Next
Generation Y

Generation Y is a generational cohort which consists of those people born after the Generation X cohort. Its name is controversial and is synonymous with several alternative names including The Net Generation, Millennials, Echo Boomers, and iGeneration....
.

The titles were set in the Marvel Universe
Marvel Universe

The Marvel Universe is the universe where the stories published by Marvel Comics take place.The Marvel Universe actually exists within a Multiverse consisting of thousands of separate universes, all of which are the creations of Marvel Comics and all of which are, in a sense, "Marvel universes"....
 and most of them (Araņa
Araņa

Ara?a is a fictional character, a superhero#superheroines in the Marvel Universe....
, Young Avengers
Young Avengers

Young Avengers is an United States comic book series written by Allan Heinberg and published by Marvel Comics. It follows the a group of young superheroes, each of whom patterns himself or herself after a member of the long-established Marvel superhero team the Avengers ....
, Runaways
Runaways (comics)

Runaways is a multiple award-winning series of comic books from Marvel Comics. The series features a group of teenagers who discover that their parents are part of an evil crime group called Pride ....
 and Amazing Fantasy
Amazing Fantasy

Amazing Fantasy was a comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. It is best known as the title that introduced the popular character Spider-Man....
) had connections to pre-existing titles, taking advantage of settings, characters and events from previous stories.

e was very little crossover between the various comics.






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Marvel Next was a short lived imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 that was launched by the American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 comics publisher Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
 in early 2005
2005 in comics

Events...
. It was designed to spotlight several unrelated titles that featured young protagonists. Like the Tsunami imprint before it, it aimed to attract young readers. Marvel Next titles carried a "Marvel Next" tag on the cover, but not in the place imprint names generally carry their logos. The title may have been an attempt to appeal to or identify with Generation Next
Generation Y

Generation Y is a generational cohort which consists of those people born after the Generation X cohort. Its name is controversial and is synonymous with several alternative names including The Net Generation, Millennials, Echo Boomers, and iGeneration....
.

The titles were set in the Marvel Universe
Marvel Universe

The Marvel Universe is the universe where the stories published by Marvel Comics take place.The Marvel Universe actually exists within a Multiverse consisting of thousands of separate universes, all of which are the creations of Marvel Comics and all of which are, in a sense, "Marvel universes"....
 and most of them (Araņa
Araņa

Ara?a is a fictional character, a superhero#superheroines in the Marvel Universe....
, Young Avengers
Young Avengers

Young Avengers is an United States comic book series written by Allan Heinberg and published by Marvel Comics. It follows the a group of young superheroes, each of whom patterns himself or herself after a member of the long-established Marvel superhero team the Avengers ....
, Runaways
Runaways (comics)

Runaways is a multiple award-winning series of comic books from Marvel Comics. The series features a group of teenagers who discover that their parents are part of an evil crime group called Pride ....
 and Amazing Fantasy
Amazing Fantasy

Amazing Fantasy was a comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. It is best known as the title that introduced the popular character Spider-Man....
) had connections to pre-existing titles, taking advantage of settings, characters and events from previous stories.

Crossover

There was very little crossover between the various comics. Prior to the Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways comic the Young Avengers and the Runaways had been mentioned in one another's comics.

The closest thing to a crossover centred on the fictional drug MGH
Mutant Growth Hormone

Mutant Growth Hormone or MGH is a fictional drug in the Marvel Universe.The drug is extracted from genetic material taken from genetic mutants, and is usually presented in pill form....
. It appeared in numerous Marvel titles over the years previously and appeared in a two-part Young Avengers story in Autumn 2005. The following month, the Runaways were asked to fight the Pusher Man, an MGH dealer.

Gravity
Gravity (comics)

Gravity is a fictional character, a superhero in the . He first appeared in Gravity #1 , and was created by Sean McKeever and Mike Norton....
 appeared in Marvel Team-Up
Marvel Team-Up

Marvel Team-Up is the name of several USA comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series featured two or more Marvel fictional character in one story....
, alongside other new heroes such as Araņa
Araņa

Ara?a is a fictional character, a superhero#superheroines in the Marvel Universe....
 and X-23
X-23

X-23 is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics fictional universe. X-23 is a female molecular cloning of Wolverine ....
, and Excelsior
Excelsior (comics)

Loners is a spin-off mini-series of comic books from Marvel Comics. It consists of a Los Angeles-based support group for former adolescence superheroes from New York, founded by Turbo of the New Warriors, and Phil Urich, the heroic former Green Goblin....
 member Darkhawk
Darkhawk

Darkhawk is a fictional comic book superhero who first appeared in his own self-titled series, Darkhawk #1 . He was created by writer and then Marvel editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco, and artist Mike Manley....
.

In 2006, Marvel Comics published the crossover Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways
Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways

Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways is a comic book limited series tie-in to Marvel Comics' "Civil War " crossover event. The series serves as a team-up between the characters from Young Avengers and Runaways ....
 as part of the larger Civil War
Civil War (comic book)

#REDIRECT Civil War...
 event.

Marvel Next titles


Ongoing

  • Araņa
    Araņa

    Ara?a is a fictional character, a superhero#superheroines in the Marvel Universe....
  • Amazing Fantasy
    Amazing Fantasy

    Amazing Fantasy was a comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. It is best known as the title that introduced the popular character Spider-Man....
  • Runaways
    Runaways (comics)

    Runaways is a multiple award-winning series of comic books from Marvel Comics. The series features a group of teenagers who discover that their parents are part of an evil crime group called Pride ....
  • Young Avengers
    Young Avengers

    Young Avengers is an United States comic book series written by Allan Heinberg and published by Marvel Comics. It follows the a group of young superheroes, each of whom patterns himself or herself after a member of the long-established Marvel superhero team the Avengers ....


Miniseries

  • Gravity
    Gravity (comics)

    Gravity is a fictional character, a superhero in the . He first appeared in Gravity #1 , and was created by Sean McKeever and Mike Norton....
  • Livewires
  • Machine Teen
    Machine Teen

    Machine Teen was a comic book published by Marvel Comics, loosely based on Machine Man and created by Marc Sumerak and Mike Hawthorne. It was published as a five-issue limited series and carried the Marvel Next logo....
  • Spellbinders
    Spellbinders

    Spellbinders is a comic book published by Marvel Comics, as part of that company's Marvel Next imprint. It was a six-issue limited series written by Mike Carey with art by Mike Perkins....
  • X-23
    X-23

    X-23 is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics fictional universe. X-23 is a female molecular cloning of Wolverine ....


See also

  • List of Marvel Digests
    List of Marvel Digests

    This is a list of titles by American comic publisher Marvel Comics which are collected in the smaller digest-sized format, rather than the standard American comic book size format which they were originally published in....


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