Douglas Wolk Interview: All Of The Marvels

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The legacy of Marvel comics and the characters that sprung from it stretch back literally decades. Their stories also tie into each other to form a complete, long-form literary narrative. Writer Douglas Wolk knows that better than anybody, as seen in the pages of his new book All of The Marvels.

For All of The Marvels, Wolk set about on a very daunting task — read every comic to date in the mainstream Marvel Universe. Over the course of his journey, Wolk saw the evolution of Marvel's characters in the most up-close manner possible. This enabled him to fully document the essence of Marvel comics as one gigantic story with the layers of storytelling therein and their history of change all captured in All of The Marvels.

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We speak to Douglas Wolk on his epic journey of reading such a huge amount of Marvel material, how he translated that quest into the book, and some of the major things the massive endeavor revealed to him about the universe of Marvel comics.

Screen Rant: How did you get started as a writer?

Douglas Wolk: I kind of fell into writing by accident. I moved to New York after I got out of college and I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was working as a temp and I was hanging out in rock clubs. I met a woman who worked at a music magazine, and when I couldn’t get temp work, I would go and hang out in her music magazine. I noticed how badly copy-edited it was, so I just started picking at pages and fixing them. They said ‘Do you want to do that for money?’, and I said ‘Sure.’ Then they said ‘Do you want to write a column?’, and I said ‘Sure’. And that led to more copy-editing gigs. Then I was working at another music magazine, CMJ New Music