Volume I
Marvel Album Edition, Volume 1 Our story begins with penciller Joe Quesada. Joe toiled away in the independent comics scene of the early 90's, though he did co-create Azrael - the man who would take over the role of Batman when Bane had broken Bruce Wayne's spine. Max Landis explains while cooking By 1998 Marvel had filed for bankruptcy (and Avi Arad had swooped in, selling off movie rights left and right - but that's a different story altogether) and they outsourced a selection of characters to Quesada's group of creators he brought together under the Event Comics banner. These books, dubbed Marvel Knights , were a grittier, darker take on the characters heavily influenced by late Bronze Age of comics (Bronze Age is generally agreed to begin with the death of Gwen Stacy and culminate in both Frank Miller's Dark Knight Rises and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen - so dark, death, and character deconstruction). Three series were produced initi...