In order to examine Marvel's transformative and enduring influence on a whole genre of fantasy, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection provides the origin tales, groundbreaking tales, and characters from the Marvel Universe. Edition from Penguin Classics' Marvel Series Without Marvel Comics, it is impossible to fathom American popular culture. Marvel has been producing ground-breaking visual stories for decades that engage viewers on many levels, such as meditations on the fluidity of identity, metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness, and high points in the aesthetic canon of American cartooning, to mention a few.