Marvel Legacy: 10 Things You Need To Know After Issue 1

Is there more to the Mind Gem than meets the eye?

by Ewan Paterson
Marvel Legacy Wolverine Mind Stone
Marvel Comics

Marvel Legacy is fast becoming the comics event of the season, and while it'll take a great deal of effort to see off the Doomsday Clocks and Dark Nights: Metals of the medium, Marvel have built something truly special with this first issue.

It's understandable, then, that the book was quite ambitious. Featuring the efforts of Jason Aaron and a whole host of artists, Legacy #1 made a point of setting up a whole new era for the Marvel Universe, planting the seeds to plotlines that'll be explored (thoroughly) in books like Daredevil, Captain America, Deadpool and more. Because of this, the book features a whole bevy of easter eggs, references and key reveals that'll play into Marvel's comics significantly going forward.

It's a pretty important issue, but with it biting off so much it's easy to get lost as to what, exactly, it all means for Marvel as a whole. There's genuinely so much crammed into those pages, and while the main bread and butter of the comic is bound to delight fans for its thoughtful narration, the main talking point that will no doubt stick with the one-shot is what, exactly, it teased.

It's a great legacy to bear though, and the teases we did see were both interesting and plentiful. There's stuff involving Wolverine, the Fantastic Four (yes), and just about every key Marvel hero you can think of, along with some details regarding a cosmic threat True Believers everywhere have to get behind.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.