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Marvel Knights was an imprint of Marvel Comics that contained material taking place within the mainstream Marvel Universe (Earth-616). The imprint originated in 1998 when Marvel outsourced three titles (''Black Panther'', ''The Punisher'', and ''The Inhumans'') to Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti's company Event Comics; Event hired the creative teams for the Knights line while Marvel published them. ==History== In 1998, Marvel Comics, which had just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, asked Quesada to work for Marvel in a more exclusive capacity, and contracted him and his Event Comics partners to produce a line of Marvel books dubbed ''Marvel Knights''. As editor of Marvel Knights, Quesada worked on a number of low-profile characters such as ''Daredevil'', ''Punisher'', ''The Inhumans'' and ''Black Panther'',〔Glaser, Brian. "Q+A: Joe Quesada". ''Visual Arts Journal''. School of Visual Arts. Fall 2011. pp. 50–55.〕 encouraging experimentation and using his contacts in the independent comics world to bring in creators such as David W. Mack, Mike Oeming, Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Quesada himself also illustrated a ''Daredevil'' story written by film director Kevin Smith. Marvel Knights stepped away from the long-running story arcs and heavy focus on continuity that was a prime feature of Marvel Comics during this period; instead, the imprint focused on strong stand-alone stories and high production qualities.〔 In 2000, two-and-a-half years after starting Marvel Knights — and in large part due to the imprint's success〔 — Quesada was named editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. In early 2006 Quesada announced that all ongoing titles under the "Marvel Knights" banner would move to the Marvel Universe imprint and that "Marvel Knights" would afterward contain high-profile limited series. Quesada explained that Marvel Knights... The change began with ''Daredevil'' #82, ''Black Panther'' #14, ''Moon Knight'' #1, ''Squadron Supreme'' #1, and ''Wolverine'' #42. ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' became ''The Sensational Spider-Man'' with issue #23, and ''Marvel Knights 4'' (featuring the Fantastic Four) became simply ''4'' with issue #28.〔 ''Fury: Peacemaker'', by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, was the first limited series to launch under the redefined imprint in February 2006. This was followed by ''Silver Surfer: Requiem'' by J. Michael Straczynski and Esad Ribić (2007), ''Spider-Man: Reign'' by Kaare Andrews (late 2006), ''Ghost Rider'' by Garth Ennis and Clayton Crain (2007), and ''Captain America: The Chosen'' (September 2007). Marvel Knights editor Axel Alonso wrote in a press release: Marvel Knights was phased out after 2013 as the rest of Marvel's line became virtually indistinguishable from what the Knights line was publishing.〔McMillan, Graeme. ("Leaving an Imprint: 10 Defunct MARVEL Publishing Lines," ) ''Newsarama'' (10 January 2013).〕 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 Knights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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