Annual 1

This book is the first volume of Marvel Comics' annual series, a comics collection published in "annual" form. An annual is typically a separate, thicker special issued outside the regular series, often gathering short stories from multiple character or event lines of the same period, longer than a standard issue and with a more concentrated cast. As the opening volume of the series, this book serves to lay out the overall framework for readers: on one hand it introduces how the annual collection is organized and in what order to read it, and on the other it presents the daily lives and clashes of different Marvel Universe characters through several relatively standalone short stories. Because available material is limited, the specific contents and plots of this volume cannot be verified one by one; readers may treat it as the first stop in entering this annual series. It should be noted that the "Superman" and "Superman/Batman" entries appearing in the catalog clues belong to characters of another publishing system (DC) and are not set in the same world as the Marvel annuals; those entries may be search associations or confusions and should not be used to judge this book's contents. Readers are advised to understand this book in terms of the overall positioning of Marvel annuals and to treat it as an introductory collection for getting to know characters and becoming familiar with the art and narrative rhythm.