What is Marvel ?

In the Marvel universe, a fictional company called Damage Control specialises in cleaning up the mess that superheroes and super villains leave behind. Someone should let Superman know about this.

According to Stan Lee, one of the reasons Spiderman wears a mask is so his enemies can’t see when he’s afraid.

For several decades Marvel and DC were the top companies in the industry.

Marvel’s Deadpool, Wade Wilson, was originally created as a spoof of DC’s Deathstroke, Slade Wilson. “Wade Wilson” was an inside-joke to being “related” to “Slade Wilson”. Deadpool was later re-imagined as a psychotic smart-ass anti-hero.

Professor Xavier stated in the Xavier Protocol that the only way to stop Wolverine is to decapitate him and remove his head from the vicinity of his body.

The re-imagined Nick Fury bears a striking resemblance to Samuel L. Jackson. Although Jackson is well known for playing Nick Fury in the Avengers movies, this incarnation of Fury pre-dates the film by several years. It wasn’t until Samuel himself saw his resemblance in the comic by chance that he contacted his lawyer and Marvel to secure his role in Marvel movies.

In the early 90s The Fantastic Four was temporarily comprised of Wolverine, The Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Spiderman.

Throughout the 1980s and ’90s Marvel changed hands numerous times, becoming a publicly held company in 1991.

Amalgam Comics was a publishing imprint shared by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters into new ones. Batman and Wolverine became the Amalgam character Dark Claw. Superman and Captain America’s amalgamation was Super-Soldier. You could also find characters like Iron Lantern, Shatterstarfire and Man-Bat in the mix.

Gambit possesses a strong and irresistible hypnotic charm, giving him influence over sentient beings; leading them to believe what he says and agree with his suggestions.

“Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No, he can’t, he’s a pig, Look out, he is a Spider-Pig!” Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) is a fictional Marvel character, an anthropomorphic funny animal parody of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man, created by Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong in 1983. Who knew he was real?

Questionable management decisions and a general slump in sales in the comic book industry drove Marvel Comics into bankruptcy in 1996.

Moon Knight carves crescents into the foreheads of repeated offenders, marking them not only as criminals, but as victims of Moon Knight’s rage.

Wielding the mighty Frogjolnir, Simon Walterson is Throg. Although he physically resembles the amphibian form that Thor was once trapped in, Throg is a different being who shares a portion of the Thunder God’s powers. Why?

The company emerged from bankruptcy in 1998 and began to diversify its output, launching imprints aimed at a variety of demographics and expanding its cinematic offerings under the Marvel Studios banner

En Sabah Nur has many abilities such as flight, super-strength, size alteration/body manipulation, energy manipulation, telepathy, teleportation and immortality.

Venom was conceived of by a Marvel Comics reader named Randy Schueller. Marvel purchased the idea for $220.00 after they sent Schueller a letter acknowledging Marvel’s desire to acquire the idea from him. Ummm…

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the only Spider-Man film that has been shot entirely in New York, which is the character's hometown.

In 2007 Marvel began publishing digital comics. In 2009 the Walt Disney Company purchased the parent company of Marvel Comics.

Marvel was forbidden to use werewolves in their comics by the Comics Code Authority. The writers had to come up with clever ways of including the classic villain archetype. For X-Men No. 60 (1969), Roy Thomas and Neal Adams created Sauron, a were–pterodactyl, to get around the code.

Since the death of his mentor, The Ancient One, Doctor Strange has held the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme and Guardian of the Universe.

The Marvel Universe

Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather, found writing comics too difficult. He asked Stan Lee if he could try to write a comic script. Lee agreed but Puzo found it too difficult. Lee recounts in his autobiography that Puzo told him: “I could write a novel in the time it would take me to figure this damn thing out.” He went on to write some of the best-selling novels of all time.

Hulk once implanted the Illuminati members with obedient discs and forced them to fight each other in a makeshift gladiatorial ring in Madison Square Garden.

The shared storytelling palette known as the Marvel universe was unveiled in 1961, when Goodman responded to the growing interest in superhero books by commissioning writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby to create the Fantastic Four.