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Did you know that MARVEL comics has been publishing comic books for 79 years ? The company has come a long way since MARVEL started in 1939, but how did they get this far and will MARVEL be continuing to grow. MARVEL comics has gone through many different CEOs since 1939. How ever MARVEL had to start somewhere, it also had to change, and has to grow. It all started back in 1939 by publisher Martin Goodman, who started the company called Timely Comics. Timely Comics first comic book was Marvel Comics no. 1 featuring several characters such as the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. In March of 1941 Timely Magazine started a comic book series known as Captain America Comics. Stan Lee joined the company when he was 17. He was the editor for a …show more content…

In 1961 Marvel Comics came up with The Fantastic Four. Later on Stan Lee thought up The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men due to their rivalry with DC Comics. In 1963 the first Avengers comic was published featuring Iron Man, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk. The Guardians of the Galaxy first appeared in Marvel Super Heros #18. The Guardians of the Galaxy eventually got their own comic book series in 1969 by the title of Guardians of the Galaxy. MARVEL became one of the most popular comic book publishers in the 80s and 90s. In 1986 a company known as New World Pictures bought Marvel Comics. Ron Perelman got Marvel in 1989 and MARVEL was forced into bankruptcy. Stan Lee went on to created Stan Lee Media and when Stan Lee Media went bankrupt Stan Lee decided to create POW!, but Stan Lee never left Marvel. In 1996 MARVEL went bankrupt again due to people not buying as many comic books. MARVEL eventually got out of bankruptcy. In 1998 MARVEL emerged from bankruptcy and started to focus on other cinematics instead of comic books, but they would still publish comic books. A new wave of writers came to Marvel Comics during the 1990s and 2000s. MARVEL sold the rights to Spider-Man and all characters associated with Spider-Man in 1999. Eventually Constantin Studios would purchase the rights to the Fantastic Four and all the characters associated with the series. 20th Century Fox would end up purchasing the rights to the X-Men and all other characters associated with the

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The fourth place finisher has been a hot button topic over the span of the last week - and has been deemed by many to be one of the worst superhero films ever made. From on-set issues to Twitter-fueled rejections from its director, Josh Trank, Fantastic Four is the subject of the worst kind of publicity. It currently sits on a worldwide total of $102 million. Rounding out the top-4 is the thriller, The Gift - adding $6.5 million. The Jason Bateman led drama currently enjoys a solid domestic total of $23.5 million (produced on $5

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Neil Gaiman was drawn into comic books when he first read one called “Swamp Thing”. From that point on, Gaiman was an avid comic book

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As well, some comics' covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12 in Winter 1946, were labeled "A Marvel Magazine" many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion. Goodman's comic book line dropped them for the most part and expanded into a wider variety of genres than even Timely had published, featuring horror, Westerns, humor, funny animal, men's adventure-drama, giant monster, crime, and war comics, and later adding jungle books, romance titles, espionage, and even medieval adventure, Bible stories and

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The amazing spider-man 1, Peter Parker discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors his father's former partner. After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider inside his father’s ex -laboratory, he gains newfound powers similar to a spider. Peter will make life changing choices to use his powers to become a hero, known as Spider-Man. Spider-Man’s most important battle will be within himself, the struggle between the ordinary expectations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary obligations of Spider-Man, But in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker finds that a greater challenge lies ahead with realising all of his enemies all have one thing in common,

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With that being said this could allow them to start branching more into the video game side of things. The video game industry is huge and many comic book people also play video games. This would allow them to reach their customer base that they already have and then add many other customers. Another reason this could be a good idea is that the video games are becoming more virtual then ever before, which allows huge fans to live out the comics as best as possible. Like with the above strategy this takes lots of money to launch a video games that in turn could not sell as much as they thought it would.

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This allowed the film to generate maximum awareness before its release. From being a Marvel film itself was part of the marketing campaign- even if the film isn't that good people will go to see it because its marvel. Announced the sequel comic- which suggested that the film was already a blockbuster to the audience and that it would be successful, even though it wasn't even out yet. New characters in the film were advertised a lot on social media therefore people began to recognise the characters and question who they were. There was also teaser posters/theatrical posters and trailers.

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As I was just saying, Marvel isn’t known for as much magic, mostly Sci- Fi. And Marvel isn’t as serious as DC is. They often have more jokes and laughter. Marvel uses Norse mythology as origins for only a few characters.

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Movies are a great means of entertainment and having fun. Some movies usually get people bored but others keep their audience on the edge of their seats in the anticipation of what might happen next and that includes the movies that are based on the comics. Comics are sci-fi and fantasy stories that are actually not true but seem possible. It includes pictures and writings that make the comic-book more fun to read for the audience. There are varieties of comic makers, but Marvel and DC are the two most popular ones around the globe.

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There are thousands of comic brands out in the world, and more than a few are similar. DC and Marvel stand above the rest when it comes to superhero comics, and both share more than a few similarities. Some of the similarities in each universe include having its own team of heavy hitters, or characters of each universe sharing the same name, and even sharing some of the same writers. Both universes have a plethora of characters ranging from talking trees to world conquering gods, and both universes have a team to prevent any world conquering. Marvel has the avengers a team comprised of some of the most well-known marvel characters in the world such as Captain America, Thor, hulk, spider-man, wolverine, and iron man.

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Kids were no longer the only readers, so the business savvy comic book creator had to address more serious themes of society, personality defects and science. The 1980s began what is known as "the Modern Age of comic books," which persists today. This "Modern Age" builds off the Bronze Age but delves even further into the darker side of graphic novels, intertwining sex, drugs, vices, psychological struggles, imperfect anti-heroes, cynicism and social critique. During this time, the DC Comics Batman's The Dark Knight series takes off, X-Men launches into the complex back histories of their characters and the Mutants went to war against the humans, and a number of apocalyptic comics graphic novels came out, threatening the end of the

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In the summer of 2008 Marvel’s Iron Man released in theatre all over the world, although at a time it give the idea of a distinct superhero franchise in the making, however, it fabricated itself as a universe in the making. Ironman was the modus operandi for Marvel, an elementary unit for a much more industrious project ever tried in motion pictures history, furthermore to set up an entire communal universe of superheroes (which Marvel still has the rights to). It inaugurated with Iron Man then comes the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. With each release Marvel slowly but steadily ploy in the direction of the vision that nearly all have misgave from the time of its provenance.

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Comics evolution and reception Defining comics is rather complicated, once one starts to study the taxonomy diachronically and to distinguish between particular languages and traditions. Nevertheless, according to Peterson and Gerstein (889): ‘as an aspect of popular culture, comic books have always reflected the historical time period in which they were produced’. Comic books often represent either conventional or unconventional content, based on the status of accepting authoritarianism at the time. In their debut time, more or less, they suffered the stigma of light, not to say inconsiderable, pop culture, tangible in C.S. Lewis’ statement: ‘a taste of comics is excusable only by extreme youth because it involves acquiescence in hideous draughtsmanship

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However, the acclaimed Stan Lee did not join the production team until the 1940's. Namor the Sub-Mariner and The Fantastic Four, were the first character and group to be created respectively. Following this, many other creations of characters and famous storylines came into being. It took a while for studios to eventually take Marvel story arcs and characters and put them on the big screen. It took a while longer for the Marvel movies to actually become famous like they are now.

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