The Savage Land is a hidden prehistoric land within the fictional Marvel Comics Universe.

The United Nations of the Marvel Universe considers the Savage Land an international wildlife preserve, and forbids any commercial exploitation of its resources.

In the alternate future depicted in Marvel 2099, an alien attack floods much of the earth rendering the Savage Land the only inhabitable space.

In the Transformers Marvel comics continuity, shortly after the Arks crash on earth, the computer aboard the spaceship detected Shockwave landing on the prehistory Savage Land.

In the Ultimate Marvel comics, the Savage Land is a large island somewhere in the southern hemisphere.

* The Savage Land appears in Marvel Super Hero Squad.

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In an episode that spoofed the contest between the Champion and Earth's strongest superheroes from the Champion's first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7, the villain Rasslor ( voiced by professional wrestler " Macho Man " Randy Savage ) challenges and easily defeats Earth's superheroes ( consisting of Valhallen, Major Glory, Sam-R-I, Phan Tone, Krunk, White Tiger, Capital G, and Living Bullet ) in single combat until Monkey was the sole remaining challenger, having been dismissed as being unworthy of Rasslor repeatedly throughout the event.

In 1974, Marvel Comics featured the Fountain ( which works if bathed in, but cripples if drunk from ) in Man-Thing and later The Savage She-Hulk.

During the final battle in the Savage Land, he finally defeats the Flash, but only does so because there is no Speed Force in the Marvel Universe.

These included Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special for Marvel Comics in 2000, The Savage Dragon # 100 and The Amazing Spider-Man # 46 in 2002, Hellboy: Weird Tales # 6 in 2003 and Invincible # 14 in 2004. he then began doing full interior work on other Spider-Man books for Marvel, including issues # 5 and 8 of Marvel Knights Spider-Man in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and The Astonishing Spider-Man # 123, also in 2005.

* The Savage Hulk: " Old Friends " ( w / a, one-shot, Marvel Edge, 1996 )

Also for Marvel, Brunner adapted Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery pulp fiction hero Conan the Barbarian in the 42-page story " The Scarlet Citadel ", and drew many covers for the similar series Red Sonja and Savage Sword of Conan.

* Savage Land Mutates, a group of mutants in Marvel Comics

For competitor Skywald Publications, he drew the eight-page " The Skin And Bones Syndrome " for Psycho # 1 ( Jan. 1971 ), and co-created the muck-monster Man-Thing, with writers Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, in Marvel Comics ' first entry into the adult-oriented comics-magazine market, the black-and-white Savage Tales # 1 ( May 1971 ).

It is briefly noted in Marvel Zombies that a zombified Quicksilver managed to spread the virus to the Savage Land, infecting Ka-Zar and Zabu.

The Marvel comic was originally part of the main Marvel Universe, with appearances from Spider-Man and Nick Fury, plus some cameos, as well as a visit to the Savage Land.

Marvel Comics's Hulk is a prominent example inspired by the concept of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with the three most prominently displayed Hulk personalities representing stages of Bruce Banner's life ; the ' Savage Hulk ' is a childish but strong figure representing the child-Banner's desire to be strong enough to protect his mother, the Gray ' Joe Fixit ' Hulk represents the surly teenager Banner never was, and the ' Professor Hulk ' is the combination of the first two Hulks and Banner to reflect his adult experience.

" The Savage Sword of Conan # 91 ( Marvel Comics, August 1983 )

" The Savage Sword of Conan # 91 ( Marvel Comics, August 1983 )

Consequently, Bixby starred in the pilot movie called The Incredible Hulk, based loosely on the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Marvel comic book characters.

* 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America and Daredevil ; antagonists such as the Green Goblin, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Galactus, and the Red Skull.

The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where stories in most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Avengers.

Authors of this genre include Stan Lee ( co-creator of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk ); Marv Wolfman, the creator of Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics ; Dean Wesley Smith ( Smallville, Spider-Man, and X-Men novels ) and Superman writers Roger Stern and Elliot S!

In early 1963, with the success of Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy, The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, and The Fantastic Four, creator Stan Lee devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, " The Mutants ", stating that readers would not know what a " mutant " was.

His credits for Marvel Comics include an adaptation of The Iliad in Marvel Classics Comics # 26 ( 1977 ), and two superhero tales, The Spectacular Spider-Man # 16 ( March 1978 ), and The Incredible Hulk # 230 ( Dec. 1978 ).

Hulk ; Iron Man ; The Thing ; Fantastic Four ; Marvel Team-Up ; Thor and Uncanny X-Men

The heroes include the Avengers ( Captain America, Captain Marvel II, Hawkeye, Iron Man, She-Hulk, Thor, the Wasp ); three members of the Fantastic Four ( Human Torch, Mister Fantastic and Thing ); solo heroes Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and the Hulk ; and the mutant team X-Men ( Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine and Lockheed the Dragon ).

Conversely, the character Rick Jones is virtually a " sidekick-for-hire ," having assisted a number of different heroes during his career, starting with the Hulk, moving onto Captain America ( when he briefly became the second Bucky ), then the first Captain Marvel, Rom Spaceknight, and finally the third Captain Marvel ( Genis ).

He also made a small appearance as Iron Man's alter ego Tony Stark in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, as a part of Marvel Studios ' attempt to depict the same Marvel Universe on film by providing continuity among the movies.

* Hulk ( comics ), a fictional character of Marvel Comics

Cheez TV aired a number of Marvel based cartoons such as X-Men, The Marvel Action Hour, The Incredible Hulk ( 1982 series ), and Spider-Man: The Animated Series plus several anime series, including Teknoman, Transformers, Eagle Riders, Medabots and in more recent years Pokémon, Beyblade, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Sonic X, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

He followed this up with a Hulk comic ( title The Incorrigible Hulk ) which was completed but never released due to a management change at Marvel Comics at the time.

From August 2009, The Incorrigible Hulk finally released in serialised form for Marvel Knights's relaunched Strange Tales mini-series.

* Unholy Union one-shot ( Image Comics / Top Cow Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007, featuring Witchblade, The Darkness, the Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Doctor Strange )

While at Marvel, Ennis also wrote stories for Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Hulk, and Thor.

The character first appeared in the last panel of The Incredible Hulk # 180 ( his first full appearance is in issue # 181, November 1974 ) and was created by writer Len Wein and Marvel art director John Romita, Sr., who designed the character, and was first drawn for publication by Herb Trimpe.

The character then appeared in a number of advertisements in various Marvel Comics publications before making his first major appearance in The Incredible Hulk # 181 ( cover date November 1974 ) again by Wein and Trimpe.

In 1974, Marvel Comics writer Rich Buckler introduced the cyborg Deathlok the Demolisher, and a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, in Astonishing Tales # 25.

Genosha received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update ' 89 # 3.

Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition # 15 ( December 1973 ) by Englehart and Starlin ( SME # 1 – 14 were reprints of older Marvel superhero stories ).

He also co-starred with Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up # 84 and The Thing in Marvel Two-in-One # 29.

In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Shang-Chi first appeared in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up # 15.

* In Marvel Family # 36 Mars is shown to be inhabited by a warlike treacherous race that resemble 1940s military dictators.

Marvel Mystery Comics | Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ), the first comic from Marvel precursor Timely Comics.

Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics # 1 ( cover dated Oct. 1939 ), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos ' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first generally available appearance of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features.

For example, Spider-Man's high school graduation was published in Amazing Spider-Man # 28 ( September 1965 ), his college graduation in Amazing Spider-Man # 185 ( October 1978 ), and his high school reunion in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man # 7 ( December 2004 ).

He made his first appearance in 1971 in the issue Marvel Spotlight # 1.

He first appeared in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7.

However, these later X-Men issues failed to attract sales and Marvel stopped producing new stories with issue # 66, later reprinting a number of the older comics as issues # 67 – 93.