Tsunami (Marvel Comics)

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Marvel Tsunami

Comic books
Owner(s)	Marvel Comics

Tsunami was an imprint of Marvel Comics founded on January 1, 2003.^[1]

Overview

Marvel's goal was to create

touched on espionage and darker themes better suited for an older audience.

failed to generate interest, with the last surviving eighteen issues due to exceptionally high initial sales.

The imprint was discontinued in late December 2003. Mystique was the longest running title – lasting twenty-four issues before it was absorbed into the mainstream Marvel Comics imprint and had a change of writer as part of the

initiative. Venom was canceled outright. The other Tsunami series were canceled after twelve issues.

Since then, Runaways has received a boost from high

for the same reason. Human Torch received a single digest.

New Mutants received a single standard-size trade paperback compiling its first six issues and complete collections in the same format of its successor series, New X-Men: Academy X, which was revamped shortly after House of M as simply New X-Men. Mystique and Venom were fully collected as standard-size trade paperbacks.

Titles

• Human Torch (2003–2004) #1–12
• Inhumans (2003–2004) #1–12
• Mystique
  (2003–2005) #1–13 only
• Namor (2003–2004) #1–12
• Sentinel (2003–2004) #1–12
• Venom (2003–2004) #1–18
• New Mutants (2003–2004) #1–12 only
• Runaways (2003–2004) #1–18
• Wolverine: Snikt! (2003 5-issue limited series)
• Emma Frost (2003–2005) #1 only

References