Today is Fred Van Lente Day, which the folks over at CBR's
Comics Should Be Good blog have been celebrating for
five years now. Fred Van Lente (
web/
twitter) is a
Xeric Grant and
American Library Association award winner from his work (with Ryan Dunlavey) on
Action Philosophers!, a
New York Times Best-Selling Author (with Greg Pak) on
Incredible Hercules. Additionally his work on
Cowboys & Aliens (with Andrew Foley) is being adapted into a major motion picture directed by Jon "Iron Man" Favreau and starring Daniel "007" Craig and Harrison "Get off my Plane" Ford.
He also wrote
MODOK's 11 which is the kind of comic every other writer wishes they could write.
Naturally.
Now in the spirit of Fred Van Lente Day, as well as my MO with the MDCUO, I thought a nice way to celebrate on this end was to take
everything Fred has done at Marvel (available on the MDCU, at least) and post them here. Under normal posting circumstances, I would post enough of a series/run that I felt if there were any gaps it wouldn't be detrimental to one's reading experience. This is
slightly problematic given that much of his work isn't 100% complete (along with some of it still being a work in progress).
However, today is a special circumstance. Today is Fred Van Lente Day. So I hope you enjoy today's offerings.
All Ages Work
Fantastic Four & Power Pack
#1 #2 #3 #4
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four, Vol. 6 - Monsters & Mysteries
#21 #22 #23 #24
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four, Vol. 7 - The Silver Surfer
#25 #26 #27 #28
Marvel Adventures Iron Man, Vol. 1 - Heart of Steel
#1 #2 #3 #4
Marvel Adventures Iron Man, Vol. 2 - Iron Armory
#5 #6 #7 #8
Marvel Adventures Iron Man, Vol. 3 - Hero by Design
#9 #10 #11 #12
Marvel Adventures Iron Man, Vol. 4 - Armored Avenger
#13 #1 #1
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Vol. 6 - The Black Costume
#21 #22 #23 #24
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Vol. 9 - Fiercest Foes
#33 #34 #35 #36
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes
#6
Power Pack: Day One
#1 #2 #3 #4
Skrulls Vs. Power Pack
#1 #2 #3 #4
Wolverine First Class, Vol. 1 - The Rookie
#1 #2 #3 #4
Wolverine First Class, Vol. 2 - To Russia, With Love
#5 #6 #7 #8
Wolverine First Class, Vol. 3 - Wolverine-by-Night
#9 #10 #11 #12
Incredible Hercules
Incredible Hercules, Vol. 1 - Against the World
#112 #113 #114 #115 #1
Incredible Hercules, Vol. 2 - Secret Invasion
#116 #117 #118 #119 #120
Incredible Hercules, Vol. 3 - Love & War
#121 #122 #123 #124 #125
Incredible Hercules, Vol. 4 - Dark Reign
#126 #127 #128 #129 #130 #131
Incredible Hercules, Vol. 5 - The Mighty Thorcules
#132 #133
#134 #135 #136
#137
Incredible Hercules, Vol. 6 - Assault on New Olympus #1
#138 #139 #140 #141
Currently, his work with Incredible Hercules is still ongoing with the recently concluded Hercules: Fall of An Avenger and Heroic Age: Prince of Power as well as the currently running Chaos War event which will act as the conclusion the overall Hercules story Fred and Greg have been doing.
Spider-Man (& His Amazing Enemies)
Amazing Spider-Man
#589 #602 #603 #604 #605 #615 #616
#622 #626 #647
Dark Reign: Mister Negative
#1 #2 #3
Spider-Man Family
#1 #3
Super-Villian Team-Up/MODOK's 11
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5
Web of Spider-Man #2 #3 #4
#5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12
Marvel Zombies
Marvel Zombies 3
#1 #2 #3 #4
Marvel Zombies 4
#1 #2 #3 #4
Additionally, Fred has work published in Marvel Zombies Return (#1, #5) and Marvel Zombies 5 (#1-#5) which are currently not available yet.
Hulk Family
Amazing Fantasy/Scorpion: Poison Tomorrow
#7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12
Heroes for Hire (Scorpion back-ups)
#11 #12 #13
Hulk Family
#1
Hulk: Broken Worlds
#1
Incredible Hulk (Lyra back-ups) #600
#601 #602 #603 #604 #605
Additionally, he wrote a solo mini-series (All-New Savage She-Hulk) but it doesn't appear to available yet.
Etc.
Deadpool
#900, Deadpool Team-Up
#899, #1000
Eternals Annual
#1
Marvel Romance Redux
#3
Marvel Western Legends
#1
Untold Tales of the New Universe: Nightmask
#1
X Men Noir
#1 #2 #3 #4
Additionally, there was a follow-up series to X Men Noir entitled Mark of Cain, which currently isn't available.
Other currently-in-process/recently concluded work includes Taskmaster, Shadowland: Power Man, Chaos War: Dead Avengers, Origins of Marvel Comics, Iron Man: Legacy and probably something else I've missed. Consider it incentive to buy his work when it comes out.
