Marvel Comics

I’m pretty sure all of you know by now that Marvel Comics is one of the biggest comic book companies in the world. It’s very clear that out of the two big publishing companies, Marvel is more recognized by the general public due to Marvel Studios releasing two films a year since the culmination of Phase One of their Cinematic Universe, while Fox releases one film (whether it’s X-Men or Fantastic Four) a year, and Sony does the same a new Spider-Man film every two years, although the latter may probably change due to the future spinoffs of “The Sinister Six” and “Venom”.

 

 

 

 

Marvel Comics was founded in 1939, known at the time as Timely Comics. Marvel’s first superheroes were the original Human Torch (which was an android, please don’t confuse him with the Fantastic Four member of the same name), Namor (if you don’t have any idea of who he is, let’s just say he is Marvel’s response to Aquaman), and Captain America. During the 1950’s, Marvel changed its name from Timely Comics to Atlas Comics. It was until 1961 that the company used its current name.

The first superhero team they chose to introduce was the Fantastic Four, later they began publishing titles of superheroes such as Spider-Man, Daredevil, X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, and so on. Most of these superhero comics were written by none other than Stan Lee. During the 1990’s, Marvel won big amounts of money due to the popularity and recognition their comics had, so it launched the “Marvel 2099” imprint, which featured futuristic versions of the superheroes. However, in 1992, some of its most recognized writers left Marvel in order to found another comic book company, which would be known as Image Comics. Over the last decade, Marvel created new imprints such as Ultimate Marvel, Marvel Noir, etc.

In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired, for approximately between $4 billion and $4.2 billion dollars, Marvel Entertainment, which is a parent corporation of Marvel Comics.

While I prefer DC Comics more, I also think that Marvel is just as good as DC, in its own way, due to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the other Marvel-related films and TV series, which manage to entertain people, while at the same time, revealing specific details about what to expect from their next films (and seasons in the case of TV series, like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).

Feel free to comment about what movie, game, series, or a specific character or superhero team from Marvel you would like me to talk about, and then I’ll see what I can do. Have a nice day.