
"Not just a continuous story going on for six decades, but the continuous story going on in many, many threads at once that can cross each other at any time." "All of those events are its history, its past, what it can draw on for this perpetually-evolving story," said Wolk. Wolk, a Marvel expert, patiently explained to correspondent Luke Burbank (a non-comic-book person) that Marvel might be the longest-running and most voluminous story told in human history … and it's all connected, meaning if The Hulk stubbed his toe back in 1979, Captain America could be dealing with the consequences in 2022. "Stories that happened in 1961 or 1962 have consequences in comics that are coming out this week." "It all happens in the same setting," he said. The Marvel Universe, says writer Douglas Wolk, contains the biggest story that has ever been told. Since the Dawn of Time (technically, the 1960s, to be precise), a tale has been building: a single connected narrative involving thousands of characters, and millions of pages of comics.
