Marvel Illustrated
Marvel Illustrated was a Marvel Comics publishing imprint specializing in comic book adaptations of classic literature. Each novel's story is told in the form of a limited series, the issues of which are later collected as a trade paperback. Writer Roy Thomas has adapted many of the titles; the imprint is also known for its six adaptations of books from the Land of Oz series, all done by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young; and its four adaptations of Jane Austen novels by writer Nancy Butler. History. Marvel Illustrated was started in 2007, the first attempt by the  company to adapt classic literature since the short-lived 1970s series "Marvel Classics Comics". Their first title was a 64-page one-shot adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", by Mary Jo Duffy, Gil Kane, and P. Craig Russell, which collected material originally published in 1983 in "Marvel Fanfare". Other titles launched in 2007 included "The Last of the Mohicans", "", and "Treasure Island", all of which were adapted by Roy Thomas. 2008 saw publications of "The Iliad", "Moby-Dick", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and "The Three Musketeers", all adapted by Thomas. In 2009 Marvel Illustrated published "Kidnapped  and Thomas' telling of the Trojan War, as well as the first of Nancy Butler's adaptations of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice". That was the year they also released Shanower & Young's adaptation of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", which has been followed by "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (2010), "Ozma of Oz" (2011), "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" (2011–2012), and "The Road to Oz" (2012–2013). In 2010, the imprint published "Dracula", adapted by Thomas and Dick Giordano, which collected material originally published in the 1970s and mid-2000s. They also published Butler's adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility , illustrated by Sonny Liew. In 2011, they published Butler and Janet K. Lee's adaptation of Emma"; since then the imprint has only released Oz adaptations.