Sal Buscema. Ron Frenz. Roger Stern. If you've read American comic books for any length of time, these aren't just familiar names. They're comic book gods. And their work — usually on Marvel titles like "Amazing Spider-Man," "Avengers" and "Thor" — was always welcome to eager fans.

But they're gods of a previous era, so we haven't seen much from them lately. Until now — with Binge Books. Binge Books is the brainchild of Emmy-nominated TV writer Darin Henry ("Seinfeld," "Futurama"), whose love of 1970s and '80s comics is evident on every page of "The Heroes Union" No. 1, which arrived Aug. 18. Binge Books lives up to its name, as "Heroes Union" clocks in at a whopping 68 pages for $4.99 — when most American comics are 32 pages for $3.99 or $4.99.

"Heroes Union" is an "Avengers"-style story for all ages, told in the Mighty Marvel Style of the Bronze Age of comics (1970s and '80s), by veterans of the Bronze Age of comics. It features a team of new superheroes like Blue Baron, Raider and Startup. The following interview with Henry has been condensed for space:

Q: How did you transition from TV writing to publishing comics? Were you already a longtime comics fan?

A: It was less a transition than an addition. I've been writing TV on staff and development full time since 1995 and I have no plans to stop now. I was a passionate Marvel zombie until about 20 years ago, when their target audience stopped including kids. I became a dad a few years later, and since Marvel no longer published the kind of new superhero comics I wanted to read to my kids, I decided to publish my own.

Q: How do you come by your big names? Did you seek these three men out on purpose, or something less planned?

A: Reassembling the classic Marvel bullpen was definitely the plan! Sal Buscema was my gateway artist to the Marvel Universe of the 1970s. He no longer does interior pencils, but I'm thrilled to have him drawing covers and doing inks over Ron Frenz's pencils. I've loved Ron's art since his time drawing "Marvel Team-Up," and it's only gotten better over the years. He's an amazing storyteller, and Ron and I work together to design every costumed character. Roger Stern's run on "Avengers" was a perfect combination of costumed superhero and cosmic adventure, so when the premise of "The Heroes Union" began to take shape, I knew Roger would be the ideal writer to shape it and perfect it, which is exactly what he's done.

Q: What is your publishing philosophy when it comes to superhero comics? Are your books all ages, or aimed at older readers?

A: I like to say every Binge Book is like a greatest hits of the comic book industry. They have the satisfying format of the Golden Age, the innovation and escapism of the Silver Age, the sophisticated storytelling style of the Bronze Age, with the printing quality of the Modern Age. The best superhero comics sustain the spectacle that attracts kids with the continuity that keeps adults engaged.

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