Meet The Key Characters For The All-New All-Different Marvel Relaunch *Updated*

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Back row: Doctor Spectrum, Rocket Raccoon, Hyperion, Daredevil, Doctor Strange
Left side: Citizen V (Baron Zemo), Thing, Karnak (Inhuman), Inferno (Inhuman)
Middle: Iron Man
Right side: Medusa (Inhuman), Wolverine (X-23), Star-Lord, Wolverine (Old Man Logan)

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Back row: Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Vision, Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
Left side: Agent Coulson, Spider-Woman, Captain America/Falcon (Sam Wilson), Captain America (Aged Steve Rogers), Black Panther
Middle: Iron Man
Right side: Thor (Jane Foster), Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Red Wolf (William Talltrees), Ant-Man (Scott Lang)

A new and different relaunch comes to Marvel Comics this fall, though in many ways it aims to be a greatest-hits collection picking and choosing from decades of comic-book history.

For the first time, the top publisher in the industry is freshening up its entire superhero line with 55 to 60 No. 1 issues for its books, old and new, to attract newbies and hardcore readers alike to a single, streamlined Marvel Universe of heroes and villains.

Icons such as Iron Man (in a new suit of armor) and Spider-Man, plus characters like the Vision, Steve Rogers, Agent Coulson, Ant-Man and Black Panther who have an appeal for fans of the Marvel movies, all play important roles in the upcoming slate of stories.

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USA Today

"We've been planning it for years," Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso told Mashable. "We realized that ['Secret Wars'] would be a game-changing moment that would allow us to create a big white canvas. It’s an unprecedented chance for us to tell new stories across all titles with new No. 1s."

Though the initiative is sweeping and comprehensive — with all-new creative teams behind both new and existing titles — it won't do anything to erase or rewrite history that previous comics have established. However, "All-New, All-Different" will pick up some eight months after the conclusion of "Secret Wars," and much will have happened in that time to alter the landscape.

Alonso said it's a perfect jumping-on point for new readers, but true believers will certainly recognize the Marvel world they've come to know over the years.

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Mashable

Alonso also says that the latest line will introduce a new Hulk "like you've never seen him before," and hints that this Hulk will not be Bruce Banner, although Banner will still exist.

Character shake-ups—particularly when women and minorities take up the mantles of heroes long known as white males—tend to kick up heavy debate among the comic world's notoriously hardcore fans. "We're aware that there are going to be old-school, long-term fans who might bristle," says Alonso. "There will always be those that didn't enjoy it, and they'll let you know about it, but ultimately the market tells you if your instincts are right. If we had blinked at the first piece of mail about a female Thor, or African-American Captain America, or Pakistani-American Miss Marvel, if we'd second-guessed ourselves based on that mail, none of those things would have happened. And if we lost one or two fans, we gained eight in return."

In a move that should anger exactly zero fans, Alonso also tells Fast Company that fan-favorite character Wolverine "will return to the Marvel Universe," though he won't say how that will play out. This is significant not only because the virtually immortal mutant died in a story line last year, but because it suggests that the X-Men will have a place in the new world order. While the X-Men have been one of Marvel's most popular and best-selling teams for decades, there has been speculation that both they and the Fantastic Four are being pushed out of the comic books for the time being because Marvel Studios doesn't own the film rights (they're owned by 20th Century Fox, who distributed last year's Days of Future Past and will distribute the upcoming Fantastic Four movie). The X-Men and the Fantastic Four are the only Marvel properties to which Marvel doesn't own the film rights, after a deal with Sony earlier this year that would enable Marvel to use Spider-Man in its films (Sony had held his film rights since 1999). While many fans have been unhappy with the idea that the X-Men and Fantastic Four could be scaled back in the comics, it makes sense that Marvel would devote more page space to characters that they can exploit in movies, and less to those that benefit other studios. Beyond Wolverine, Marvel wouldn't comment for now on the teams' status in the new comic-book universe.

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Fast Company