Marvel, which has struck gold at the movies, is now getting into the chick-lit business with novels featuring She-Hulk and Rogue. “Strong, smart heroines seeking happiness and love while battling cosmic evil.”

The comics publisher is teaming up with Hyperion Books. The novels are due out this summer.

Hyperion’s editor-in-chief Elisabeth Dyssegaard told Publishers Weekly:

We think the books will definitely appeal to comics readers – male and female – but also draw a new crowd of women readers who will be introduced to superheroes through a medium they already love.”

She-Hulk Diaries by Marta Acosta (an image of a green lipstick is on its cover): Corporate lawyer Jennifer Walters “juggles climbing the corporate ladder by day and battling villains and saving the world by night – all the while trying to navigate the dating world to find a Mr Right who might not mind a sometimes very big and green girlfriend.”

Rogue Touch by Christine Woodward. The X-Men character is a mutant whose touch is lethal but also “a young woman trying to navigate the challenges of everyday life and romance.” Rogue puts her first boyfriend in a coma, then meets “the handsome and otherworldly James.” “Stealing a car, they head out on the highway and eventually, Rogue has to decide whether she will unleash her devastating powers in order to save the only man alive who seems to truly understand her.”