Marvel’s first family will meet up with the Disney Nights Defender at Gargoyle/Fantastic Four, an inventive crossover that will be released by Dynamite Entertainment this October. Written by series creator Greg Weisman and art by George Cumbadice and lettered by Jeff Eckleberry, the crossover will receive a preview of next week’s Free Comic Book Day issue, Gargoyle: Demona #0, a preview of Saturday, May 3rd.
Key members of the Manhattan clan, including Goliath, Elisa Maza, Brooklyn, Katana and Nashville, were invited to tour one of the most impressive and technically advanced buildings in the Baxter building, the home of adoption in New York City. A cast of horrifying enemies from both Mythos Cross Paths, including Coldsteel, Gargoyle aka Yuri Topolov, and The Deadly Annihilus, becomes too unhappy.
The book is the first official crossover in the Gargoyle universe, and the first between Marvel and Dynamite since 2007’s Spider-Man/Redsonja (it doesn’t count the titles shared because Alex Roth was exclusive to Dynamite at the time). The announcement coincides with the imminent release of Fantastic Four: First Step, and the 25th anniversary of the Gargoyles (premiered on October 24, 1994), but Wiseman explains this as a logical pairing, as it is a family-family story.
Gargoyle and Marvel history have been intertwined for a long time before Disney acquired the latter in 2009. The publisher released its first 11 Gargoyle comic series in 1995. Wiseman himself previously wrote a radio play crossover between the show and the epic Spider-Man (another series he directed) for the Gargoyle Convention in 2009. As for the non-Marvel crossover, Weissman had planned to have a guest star for Gargoyle Demona in an unprocessed Atlantis episode.
Details of the crossover will be released in the coming months, where dynamite will be shared, covered by Lucio Parrillo, Fantastic Four veteran Mark Bagley and former Marvel Gargoyles artist Amanda Conner. In the meantime, Gargoyles: Demona #1 will be launched on May 28th, with Greg Weisman’s art and writing with Frank Paur’s art and the upcoming Dynamic Gargoyles series.
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