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If you’re talking about being a brand new writer who wants to pitch an original character to Marvel as your first assignment, I’m sorry but that’s not going to be successful.

First off, Marvel does not accept submissions of any kind. So if you are a writer-without-portfolio, you’re not going to be able to get anybody in a position to buy your work to look at your work. You need to have published work that you can show to the editors at Marvel so as to illustrate your ability.

But even then, if a Marvel editor were interested in what you have to offer, they wouldn’t go to you with an outreach to create something brand new. At least at first, we’d want to road-test you on smaller projects and established characters, until you had proven the quality and reliability of what you do.

Even then, launching an entirely new character or concept cold is extremely difficult. It’s easier to use the structure of the Marvel Universe to establish a character and allow that character to build up the interest of the audience.

Nobody in the history of Marvel has come in off the street and sold an original character.

This isn’t going to change after SECRET WARS.

So your desire to write for Marvel is admirable, but you should fine-tune your gun-sights and rather approach becoming a writer first, a creator first, and then work on getting into Marvel.