* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

** Agents of Atlas, a Marvel Comics mini-series that included a foundation named Atlas

* Atlas, a fictional character from Marvel Comics, also known as Erik Josten ( formerly a member of the Thunderbolts )

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

* Ajak, a Marvel Comics character, a member of the Eternals, sometimes known as " Ajax the Greater "

From 1994 to 1996, Marvel Comics published a monthly Beavis and Butt-Head comic under the Marvel Absurd imprint by a variety of writers, but with each issue drawn by artist Rick Parker.

Instead of reviewing music videos, they reviewed ( custom-made ) pages from other Marvel Comics — in one with Ghost Rider, Beavis tries to avoid using the word " fire " to describe the character's fiery skull.

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* Captain Britain, a Marvel Comics superhero

* Bob Diamond ( comics ), a Marvel Comics character

* Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics comic book superhero, formerly called Boomer

* Bloody Mary ( Marvel Comics ), a fictional telekinetic supervillain

Such games are also created to capitalize on the popularity of other forms of entertainment, such as Pokémon and Marvel Comics which both have had CCGs created around them.

* Capricorn ( comics ), Marvel Comics character

* Charon ( Marvel Comics ), a villainous wizard

The Silver Age lasted through the late 1960s or early 1970s, during which time Marvel Comics revolutionized the medium with such naturalistic superheroes as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four and Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Spider-Man.

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

* Omega Red from Marvel Comics

* Deathlok, the Demolisher, a series of military cyborgs in Marvel Comics.

* Death's Head II, MINION, Marvel Comics

* Supremor, the Kree Supreme Intelligence, of Marvel Comics

* Cable, a mutant from the future in Marvel Comics.

* The title is referenced in Marvel One-Shots A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer and is included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases.

He is a talented artist, and has worked on the Captain America comic book published in the Marvel universe.

This extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics ' top-selling character.

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.

Years later, Fawcett ironically sold the rights for Captain Marvel to DC — which in 1973 revived Captain Marvel in the new title Shazam!

While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics.

When the Justice Society's forced attempt to stop them by sending Hawkman and Captain Marvel against them met with failure and resulted in Superman and Batman briefly infiltrating the White House, Luthor, in an enraged and desperate gambit after Superman's rapid defeats of his plans, used a variant combination of the " super-steroid " Venom ( a chemical associated with the Batman villain Bane ), liquid synthetic Kryptonite, and an Apokoliptian battlesuit to fight Superman directly.

They join the Invaders from Infinity ( see List of Captain Marvel ( DC Comics ) enemies ) in their attempt to destroy the Solar System after being defeated, but are beaten and sent back to Mars while the Invaders are imprisoned and destroyed.

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 Comics company itself exists within the Marvel Universe, and versions of people such as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have appeared in some of the stories, whereas characters like Steve Rogers, ( Captain America's alter ego ), have worked for Marvel.

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.

* On The Colbert Report, following the death of Captain America in Marvel continuity, Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada bequeathed a " replica " of the Captain's vibranium shield to Stephen Colbert.

Some stories featured team-ups with other characters from the Marvel Universe, including Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Sunfire, and the mid-1970s X-Men.

This episode was also notable for including Marvel heroes Doctor Strange, Namor, Shanna the She-Devil and Captain America.

Of the " Significant Seven " chosen by The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History ( 1989 ), Marvel owns Spider-Man and Captain America and DC owns Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and Plastic Man.

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 ).

Eventually some of the inhabitants have children who inherit some of their powers ; Bravado is the son of Thor and Enchantress, Chokehold is the daughter of Absorbing Man and Titania, Crusader is the daughter of Captain America and Rogue ( although Rogue's body is now dominated by the personality of Ms. Marvel ), Firefly is the son of Human Torch and Wasp, Gator is the son of Lizard, Malefactor is the son of Doctor Doom and Enchantress, Moleculon is the son of Molecule Man and Volcana, Mustang is the son of Hawkeye and She-Hulk, Raze is the son of Wrecker, and Torrent is the daughter of Wolverine and Storm.

For a time in the 1970s, Frakes worked for Marvel Comics, appearing at conventions in costume as Captain America.

* Captain America: Homeland ( pencils and inks, two-part " Requiem " story with writer Robert Morales and inks by Stewart McKenny, Marvel Comics, 2004 )

In the 1997 DC / Marvel special " Batman / Captain America ", the Skull hires the Joker to steal an atomic bomb during World War II.

* Red Skull appears in several episodes of the Captain America segment of The Marvel Super Heroes 1960s animated series, voiced by Paul Kligman.

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 ).

Marvel restored this promotional function for the 2007 death of Captain America.

During this time, modern comic books were first published and enjoyed a surge of popularity ; the archetype of the superhero was created and defined ; and many of the most famous superheroes debuted, among them Superman, Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, and Captain Marvel.

Between early 1939 and late 1941, DC and sister company All-American Publications introduced such popular superheroes as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, the Atom, Hawkman, and Aquaman, while Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles that featured the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America.

Although DC and Timely ( which evolved to become Marvel Comics ) characters are more famous today, circulation figures suggest that the best-selling superhero title of the era may have been Fawcett Comics ' Captain Marvel, whose approximately 1. 4 million copies per issue made it " the most widely circulated comic book in America.