At the end of last year, Marvel Comics and Tsuburaya Productions announced a landmark collaboration to make new stories that were based on the classic Ultraman series. This property goes way back to 1966 and was created by Eiji Tsuburaya. The original Ultraman focused on Shin Hayata, who would transform into the mighty Ultraman to fight alien monsters. To compare the popularity of this property to something we know here in America, references to Ultraman in Japan are like those we make to Superman here.

This weekend at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, or C2E2 for short, Marvel Comics Editor-in Chief C.B. Cebulski revealed some details about the series during a panel. The Rise of Ultraman will have two writers Kyle Higgins and Mat Groom with artwork by Francesco Manna. With Higgins’ great work on BOOM! Studios’ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, I don’t think they could have given this project to a better writer as he is familiar on how to introduce Ultraman and make the stories compelling. Manna has recently worked with Dan Slot on Fantastic Four and Jason Aaaron’s Avengers.

“A few years ago, thanks to my time on Power Rangers, I was able to discover and learn more about Tokusatsu. With its wildly different conventions and inspirations, Tokusatsu — and Ultraman in particular — has been a huge source of joy for me,” said Higgins. “It’s a genre so ripe with possibilities, even down to what we conceive of in the structure of super hero storytelling. It’s both an honor and a privilege to bring Ultraman to Marvel.”

“Monsters in fiction have been embodying all that is dark and scary in our world for as long as we’ve been telling stories. But I don’t think anybody understood the immense scale of our most pressing problems quite like Eiji Tsuburaya,” shared Groom. “He imagined the darkness looming overhead as tall as skyscrapers— alien and unknowable and ANGRY. But he also imagined us being able to stand up to those monsters, by rising above our worst impulses and embracing a nobler way of being. He imagined ULTRAMAN. What does that mean in this complex, contradictory world of lies? We’re going to find out…”

You can check out some artwork provided by Marvel Entertainment down below for Ultraman.

Like I mentioned above with Higgins on the book, that is enough for me to give the first few issues a chance. I’ve seen some Ultraman media before but now well versed in that universe. It will be great to see if this sparks up more curiosity about Ultraman. Are yo a fan of Ultraman? If so, are you interested in a comic book? Let us know in the comment section below!

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Marvel Comics’ The Rise of Ultraman will debut sometime later this year.

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Source: Marvel Entertainment