
Written by NEIL GAIMAN Art by ANDY KUBERT & RICHARD ISANOVE CARDSTOCK COVER by SCOTT MCKOWEN 40 PGS./MARVEL PG.$3.50 UPC: 5960605253-00111 "It wasn't meant to be a secret." I get it all the time now. Also includes a Doctor Doom 7 x 10 1/2 print also signed by Andy Kubert. Signed and numbered by Andy Kubert and limited to 1602 copies. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.ĭynamic Forces Signed Edition with certificate of authenticity. Think of it as your birthday present."?Neil Gaiman, May 2003 There are sixteen hundred & two good reasons for telling you all about it, and I'm not saying a word. What am I going to tell you? It's really fun. This was starting to be a genuinely fun secret - like not telling someone what their birthday present is until it's time to unwrap it. But the more people asked me, buttonholed me, pleaded with me, the more I liked the fact that only a tiny handful of people at Marvel and I had even seen Andy's amazing pencils or Richard's colours. So I asked Joe Quesada if he'd mind if we didn't make a big announcement at the start. It was meant to be six, but I'm writing episode 5 right now, and there's a lot of story to tell.' 'So why is it such a secret.?' It got to be a secret because the idea of 1602 was fairly straightforward, and really fun, and I hated the idea of people being familiar with it, even bored of it, by the time it came out.

'That's pretty much it.' 'But how long is it?' 'I think it'll be eight issues. 'Stuff.' 'Well, is it the Marvel characters? Or characters you invented yourself?' 'Yes,' I said. What's it about?' 'Oh, you know,' I said. I just arrived in Portugal, in Lisbon, to promote CORALINE, and the first question I was asked, in the car from the airport to the hotel was 'So, can you tell me anything about 1602?' And I said, 'It's drawn by Andy Kubert, coloured by Richard Isanove, lettered by Todd Klein, covers by Scott McKowen and I saw a photocopy of the first issue and it looks pretty good.' 'Yes, but the story.


Written by NEIL GAIMAN Art by ANDY KUBERT & RICHARD ISANOVE CARDSTOCK COVER by SCOTT MCKOWEN 40 PGS./MARVEL PG.$3.50 "It wasn't meant to be a secret." I get it all the time now.
