Essential Marvel is a series of American comic book reprints. Each black-and-white paperback reprints approximately 20-30 issues of a classic Marvel title (mostly from the Silver Age or Bronze Age). Each book contains between 450 and 650 pages, printed on coarse, matte-quality paper.
DC Comics has a similar range of black-and-white reprint paperbacks, Showcase Presents. (In the same way, the DC Archive Editions are DC's equivalent of the Marvel Masterworks line.)
Read more about Essential Marvel: History, Table of Essential Volumes
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