The Marvels Project TPBCollects Marvels Project (2009) #1 8. Who is the mysterious old man who lies on his deathbed in a hospital in 1939, and how does his passing mark the beginning of the first heroic age of the Marvel Universe and signal the rise of the superhumans? It's a world on the brink of war, and the race is on to create the world's first super soldier! Witness the first days of the Human Torch, the Sub Mariner and many more how they shaped the world to come, and