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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) tie-in comic books are limited series or one-shot comics published by Marvel Comics that tie into the films and television series set within the MCU. The comics are written and illustrated by a variety of individuals, and each one consists of 1 to 4 issues each. They are intended to tell additional stories about existing characters, or to make connections between films, without necessarily expanding the universe or introducing new concepts or characters. The first MCU tie-in comics to be published were ''Iron Man: Fast Friends'', ''The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files'', and ''Nick Fury: Spies Like Us''. all in 2008. They were followed by an adaptation of ''Iron Man'' in 2010, along with ''Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron'' (2010), ''Iron Man 2: Public Identity'' (2010), ''Iron Man 2: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (2010), ''Captain America: First Vengeance'' (2011), ''Captain America & Thor: Avengers'' (2011), ''The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week'' (2012), ''The Avengers Initiative'' (2012), ''The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes'' (2012), and an adaptation of ''Iron Man 2'' (2012). Marvel changed its approach to tie-in material in 2012, retroactively dividing the tie-in comics into those that exist within the MCU continuity, and those that are merely inspired by the films and television series. Since then, ''Iron Man 3 Prelude'' (2013), ''Thor: The Dark World Prelude'' (2013), ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier Infinite Comic'' (2014), ''Guardians of the Galaxy Infinite Comic'' (2014), ''Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude'' (2014), ''Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude – This Scepter'd Isle'' (2015), ''Ant-Man Prelude'' (2015), ''Ant-Man – Scott Lang: Small Time'' (2015), and ''Jessica Jones'' (2015) have been released in the former category, along with film adaptations of ''Thor'' (2013), ''Captain America: The First Avenger'' (2013), ''The Avengers'' (2014–15), ''Iron Man 3'' and ''Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' (2015). ''Captain America: Homecoming'' (2014), ''Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy's Most Wanted'' (2014), ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Chase'' (2014), and ''Avengers: Operation Hydra'' (2015) have been released in the latter category. ''Captain America: Civil War Prelude Infinite Comic'' has been announced. ==Development== In 2008, Marvel released ''Iron Man: Fast Friends'', a comic prequel to ''Iron Man'', for which writer Paul Tobin was given a broad outline and some "temporal staging" so as to allow the comic to tie-in to the film.〔 Later that year, ''The Incredible Hulk: Fury Files'', which serves as a prequel to ''The Incredible Hulk'', was released, detailing an encounter between the Hulk and Nick Fury, characters who had not yet been seen together in the MCU. Writer Frank Tieri noted that the tie-in comics "provide Marvel with the opportunity to do a lot of different things" that other media do not, including the exploring of non-superhero genres and the reintroducing of older characters.〔 Alejandro Arbona, the Marvel editor tasked with overseeing the 2010 tie-in comics ''Iron Man 2: Public Identity'' and ''Iron Man 2: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', explained that Marvel "want to show readers more of that world, that connective tissue between all the movies, and a little bit more of how the characters interact", so the publishing side worked with Brad Winderbaum, Jeremy Latcham, and Will Corona Pilgrim at Marvel Studios to decide which concepts should be carried over from the Marvel Comics Universe to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what to show in the tie-in comics and what to leave for the films, and how to "make these stories as strong as possible" from their experience making the films.〔 For ''Marvel's The Avengers'' in 2012, Marvel’s senior vice-president of sales David Gabriel described a "more focused" approach to tie-ins than with the previous films, with the intention to reach Avengers fans of 'all walks of life'. This was echoed by Rich Thomas, global editorial director at Disney Publishing, who wanted the Avengers program to be "all things to all people. Just like the film, from the youngest reader...to the Marvel enthusiast."〔 Since then, many of the tie-ins have had the red 'Avengers' stamp on the cover.〔 Corona Pilgrim, the creative director of research and development at Marvel Studios, confirmed that year via his Twitter account that the previously released ''Public Identity'', ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', and ''First Vengeance'', were all officially part of the MCU continuity,〔 with the other previously released tie-in comics considered to be inspired by the MCU, but not a part of it.〔 Comic writer Fred Van Lente stated in 2013 that he had proposed a regular comic series set within the MCU to Marvel, but they wished to keep all possibilities open for potential film and television development. He said that this was also the reason why Marvel does not want writers to introduce new elements to the MCU through tie-in comics.〔 In March 2014, Corona Pilgrim confirmed that the MCU Infinite Comics were officially canon, and that ''Captain America: Homecoming'' was only inspired by the films.〔 In November 2014, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso avoided a question of whether an ongoing comic series could be set within the MCU, but pointed out that Marvel Comics would "always be working on books set in the Cinematic Universe...the collected editions of those comics end up being some of the best sellers of the year".〔 In February 2015, Corona Pilgrim further clarified the difference between canon tie-ins and "inspired-by" tie-ins, stating, "we have "canon" comics that are considered official MCU canon stories. Then we have other comics that we consider more "inspired by"...the inspired tie-ins are much more about having another fun adventure with the Avengers....where we get to show off all the characters from the film in costume and in comic form."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-in comics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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