Unlike the DC Universe, few of Marvel's 1940s characters have become major characters in modern publications ; Captain America is one exception, and to a lesser extent his contemporary, the Sub-Mariner, is as well, primarily because both of these characters were reintroduced to readers and to the Marvel Universe during the 1960s.

Doran's more recent comics-art projects included The Book of Lost Souls, a modern fantasy written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by Marvel's Icon imprint in 2006.

Marvel's Gullivar was a Viet Nam vet, and the series started in modern times.

This incarnation of the Titans was intended to be DC's answer to Marvel's increasingly popular X-Men comic, and Wolfman and Pérez indeed struck gold.

Marvel's then editor-in-chief, Jim Shooter, blamed Gerber's chronic tardiness, saying the creative team was " producing strips within six days of their publication dates ," which he said caused several newspapers to drop the strip.

Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous ( Captain Marvel's powers came from magic, unlike Superman's ), the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred.

The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books such as The Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Men ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and all-powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of them.

This new twist on his identity in turn further diverged the character from Marvel's character.

From there, he moved to Marvel's Incredible Hulk, which he drew from 1987 – 1988.

He died from this cancer on Titan in the presence of the Marvel Universe's superhero community, as chronicled in Marvel's first large-format graphic novel, The Death of Captain Marvel.

The segment's title likely derives from the DC Comics superhero organization The Justice League and its sanitized animated cartoon version, Super Friends, though the team itself was clearly a parody of Marvel's Avengers as the three main characters were loosely based on Marvel Comics characters.

The webcomic Sluggy Freelance also falls in this category because while ( and perhaps due to ) it's several earlier strips were of parodic nature, shows a rich multiverse filled with demons, high technology, parallel dimensions ( whose nature varies from alternative realities to more bizarre, law-physics-bending dimensions and spiritual realms ) aliens and magic in a very similar vein of Marvel's and DC's multiverses.

Aside from the name and the writer ( Claremont ), it has no connection to Marvel's previous Excalibur titles.

His early style seemed very much influenced by Jack Kirby, one of Marvel's leading creators from the 1960s, albeit with more realistic anatomy and a penchant for making his worlds seem bright and beautiful.

Supporting characters that have crossed over from the comic to other spin-off media include Frobisher, the shape-changing companion of the Sixth and Seventh Doctors ; Abslom Daak, the Dalek Killer ; the Special Executive, who would later appear in Marvel's Captain Britain ; and the villainous Beep the Meep.

Before falling into the sewer ( and as a nod to fans who rejected Marvel's attempt to re-villainize the character ), Sandman admitted that part of the reason for his fall from grace was the trouble he had to really cope with life on the good guys ' side, and asks Spider-Man to tell his mother he's sorry he didn't fulfull his promise to her, to be a force for good.

Eventually, He-Man and company would make an appearance in a couple of DC Comics stories, before switching labels to Marvel's younger-skewing Star Comics, with a series that ran from 1986 to 1988 bi-monthly and produced 13 issues.

" I sent material first, and based solely upon a pleasant return note from Stan's assistant Linda Fite, my pal and me were at Marvel's doorstep in the blink of an eye.

Fantagraphics has also published Windsor-Smith's Adastra in Africa, a hardcover starring a character from " Young GODS " in a story originally intended to be published as " Lifedeath III " for Marvel's X-Men, with the character Storm.

In 2004 Powers moved from Image to Marvel's creator-owned imprint Icon, where it was relaunched as Powers Vol.

It was published by Marvel Comics under Marvel's MAX imprint for a total of 28 issues from 2001 to 2004.

Among the policies they implemented were Marvel's no-overship policy newsstand compilation magazines, adding the Marvel MAX line, entrenching Marvel Knights, and removal of the Comics Code from Marvel books.

They also increased Marvel's publication of trade paperbacks, and are credited with sheparding the company from bankruptcy to profit, and with earning positive reviews from within and outside of the comics industry.

Marvel's suit against Liefeld was settled with the provisions that Liefeld's version of Fighting American would undergo some cosmetic changes to his costume, and could not throw his shield ( a signature trait of Captain America ), in order to distinguish it sufficiently from Captain America.

The mini-series Marvel 1602 reveals that, although The Fantastic Four # 13 was the first time he broke his oath, the anomalous appearance of Marvel's superheroes more than 300 years early-speculated by Uatu to be the result of the universe trying to create the means to save itself from a temporal anomaly-forced him to severely bend it, communicating with the 1602 version of Doctor Strange prior to the latter's death, his deal with Strange preventing Strange from telling anyone else about the danger facing the world while he lived while allowing him to communicate that knowledge with others after his physical body's demise.

The group manages to free the Olympian gods from an Apokoliptan chamber, and Mary Marvel's powers are restored along with her white costume, which now has a gray lightning bolt and long sleeves.

A group of heroes including Gravity, Darkhawk, Dagger, Araña, X-23, Sleepwalker, and Terror ( although Araña dies along the way ) go to the future to prevent the villain Chronok from stealing Reed Richards ' time machine, Chronok having come to the present and already having killed all of Marvel's major heroes.

Marvel's major heroes are those created between 1961 and 1963, during Marvel's " Silver Age ": Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and S. H. I. E. L. D .’ s director, Nick Fury.

Marvel's first series of this title ran six issues, premiering with June 1961 cover-date.

The next year he returned for Marvel's Strange Tales II, issue 1 of 3, with a story about Wolverine.

Within a year, Pérez had embarked on his own professional career, which included a run on " Sons of the Tiger ", a serialised action-adventure strip published in Marvel's long-running Deadly Hands of Kung Fu magazine and authored by prolific comics writer Bill Mantlo.

The first appearance of the Creation Matrix, later also known as the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, was in Marvel's Transformers comics, where the Matrix's first appearance pre-dated its cartoon appearance by over a year.

Before the 1970s, there had been very few non-white superheroes ( the Black Panther and the Falcon being notable exceptions ) but starting in the early 1970s this began to change with the introduction of characters such as Marvel's Luke Cage ( who was the first black superhero to star in his own comic book in 1972, followed a year later by Black Panther in Jungle Action ), Storm, Blade, and DC's Green Lantern John Stewart, Bronze Tiger, Black Lightning, Vixen and Cyborg.

In issue # 3 of that title ( cover dated October 1988 ), Porker met with Raven the Hunter ( a parody of Spider-Man's nemesis Kraven the Hunter ) in a story that satirized the popular " Kraven's Last Hunt " storyline which had been featured a year earlier in Marvel's Spider-Man titles.

During this period, until he left the company, Giordano wrote a monthly column published in DC titles called " Meanwhile ..." which ( much like Marvel's " Bullpen Bulletins ") featured news and information about the company and its creators.

On June 29, 2004, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment ( whose parent company would acquire Marvel's assets five years later ) released the complete series on DVD in Region 1, with the set titled as Spider-Man – The ' 67 Collection.

Joe Quesada is the first artist to become Marvel's editor-in-chief, and did so at the same time that Bill Jemas succeeded to the presidency of the company.

The story never saw print, according to McGregor, because Marvel would not assure Russell the company would print the story in Marvel's best format at the time.

In early 1997, when Marvel's Heroes World endeavor failed, Diamond also forged an exclusive deal with the House of Ideas — giving the company its own section of comics catalog Previews ( not least because the DC / Dark Horse / Image deal gave contractual prominence to those companies ) — making " Geppi ... the sole king of comics industry distribution in the summer of 1996.

A longtime fan of comics, particularly of Marvel's Spider-Man, Mindy Newell sent submissions to DC Comics in 1983 at a time when the company was actively looking for new talent.

In 1986, in an effort to expand and diversify the studio, Roman hired Marvel Productions VP of Business Affairs and his own personal attorney, Michael Wahl, as President and Bill Schultz, Marvel's Director of Development, to join in the company as the fledgling studio's VP of Production and Development.

Prior to his work appearing in Marvel's Mego-licenced Micronauts title, Guice " had been doing a little bit of fanzine work ", and " designing patches and emblems for a small company in North Carolina.

Morbius went on to star in Vampire Tales, a black-and-white horror-comics magazine published by Marvel's sister company, Curtis Magazines, appearing in all but two of the mature-audience title's 11 issues ( Aug. 1973-June 1975 ).