DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics ( currently owned by Time Warner's main rival The Walt Disney Company ) together shared over 80 % of the American comic-book market in 2008.

In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company, for $ 4. 24 billion.

In June 2012, Club Penguin, an affiliate of Marvel through Disney, will being adding Marvel characters to the online game.

* Marvel Press, joint imprint with Disney Books Group

Scenes from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends were re-cut, edited, and re-dubbed into comical shorts as part of Disney XD's Marvel Mash-Up shorts for their " Marvel Universe on Disney XD " block of programming that includes Ultimate Spider-Man and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Disney announced on July 14, 2012 its first television collaboration between Disney Channel and Marvel Entertainment, which had been acquired by the company in 2009.

Since the demise of the Disney Comics line, Disney has licensed out their properties to various US comics publishers, while continuing to publish comics in the since-defunct magazines Disney Adventures and Disney Adventures Comic Zone, as well as numerous book projects, and has reentered the periodical comics market through their 2010 purchase of Marvel Entertainment.

Editor-in-Chief Len Wein's Marvel Comics-esque approach to the Disney characters was criticized by many older Disney fans.

The hiring of Wein has been championed by the comic book creative community as an alternative to the much disliked former Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, who had made a favorable impression when interviewed by Disney management.

Prior to the launch of the comics division, Disney management proclaimed their intention to quickly become a dominant presence in the comic book market, competing with industry leaders DC and Marvel.

After Disney Comics shut down in 1993, Gladstone regained the comics license for the classic Disney characters, which they resumed publishing until 1998, while Marvel Comics obtained the license for the modern Disney characters in 1994 and published them until they sold their rights to Acclaim in 1997.

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media.

One-time Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter recalled Miller going to DC Comics after having broken in with " a small job from Western Publishing, I think.

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella ( Warren Publishing, 1969 ), Morbius, the Living Vampire ( Marvel, 1971 ), Tomb of Dracula ( Marvel Comics, 1972 ), Blade ( Marvel, 1973 ), I ... Vampire ( DC Comics, 1981 ), Hellsing ( Shonen Gahosha, 1997 ), 30 Days of Night ( IDW Publishing, 2002 ), Chibi Vampire ( Monthly Dragon Age, 2003 ), Rosario + Vampire ( Monthly Shōnen Jump 2004 ), Vampire Knight ( LaLa, 2005 ), Blood Alone ( MediaWorks, 2005 ), Dracula vs. King Arthur ( Silent Devil Productions, 2005 ), Dance in the Vampire Bund ( Media Factory, 2006 ), Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Half Dead ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse Comics, 2007 ), Nosferatu ( Viper Comics, 2010 ), and Twilight: The Graphic Novel ( 2010 ).

* Carbonneau, Richard The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons, Cellar Door Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9766831-4-8

The company's position in the North American direct market diminished in the first decade of the 2000s, challenged by Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing for the position of " third largest publisher " after Marvel and DC.

* Clive Barker ’ s Hellraiser: Marvel Epic Comics, Checker Publishing series / graphic novel

Beginning with the 1994 season, Marvel Comics began publishing a comic book series based on the programs featured on the block, as part of their line of comics based on modern Disney properties ( the classic properties were licensed to Gladstone Publishing ).

Promotional advertisement and cover to newuniversal # 1, Marvel Publishing, circa 2006.

Marvel Publishing President Bill Jemas read a draft of the script for the first issue of Alias ( which, characteristically, starts with the word " fuck ") and exclaimed " Why couldn't we publish this?

The title was published by Marvel Comics, Image Comics, and Devil's Due Publishing.

Diamond dominates the direct market in the United States, and has exclusive arrangements with most major U. S. comics publishers, including Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, and Radical Comics.

The Incal was published in three volumes by Epic Comics ( a division of Marvel Comics ) as a part of their Epic Graphic Novels line, and later by Humanoids Publishing, a division of DC Comics.

The Amazing World of DC Comics and the Marvel magazine FOOM began and ceased publication in the 1970s.

In 2007, Marvel Comics began publishing comic books based on King's Dark Tower series, followed by adaptations of The Stand in 2008 and The Talisman in 2009.

In October 1981 Marvel UK began publishing Blake's 7 – A Marvel Monthly, which included a comic strip by Ian Kennedy as well as text stories, features and photographs.

Miller was so successful with the title that Marvel once again began publishing Daredevil monthly rather than bimonthly.

Beck in his later years began doing paintings recreating the covers of Golden Age comic books, both those featuring Captain Marvel and other superheroes and even some of funny animals ( Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny ).

He soon began drawing for both DC Comics and Marvel, with his first major body of work being a two-year run ( 1985 – 1987 ) on DC's Infinity, Inc.

By 1913, a hydraulic plant had been installed at Marvel Creek and in 1914 construction of a cat trail began starting south of Aniak on the mouth of the Aniak Slough and proceeding to the diggings at Marvel Creek.

Axel Alonso ( who would later move to Marvel Comics ) began his editorial career at Vertigo on Animal Man, Black Orchid, Doom Patrol and Hellblazer, and also edited the opening issues of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets and the final issues of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher.

Acura began an association with Marvel Entertainment in 2010, upon release of the film Iron Man 2, which featured a ZDX after the ending credits.

In 1894 William Henry Lynch bought Marble Cave ( renamed Marvel Cave ) and began charging visitors to tour it.

While continuing to freelance for DC, Adams in 1969 also began freelancing for Marvel Comics, where he penciled several issues of the mutant-superhero team title X-Men and one story for a horror anthology title.

In 1971, Mego began licensing and making American Marvel and DC comic book superhero figures, which had highly successful sales and are considered highly collectible by many adults today.

There have also been a number of spin-offs based on the toys including a Marvel comic book series, an animated television series program presented by Claster Television, Inc., a television production company that Hasbro organized for this and similar purposes, that began transmissions in 1984 ( Transformers series ) and a feature-length movie, The Transformers: The Movie.

Cook began working for TSR in 1992 as a freelancer, " writing a whole slew of stuff for the old Marvel game that never came out because the game got canceled ".

An anime series based on Wolverine began airing on January 7, 2011 as part of a 4-part collaboration between Marvel Animation and Madhouse called Marvel Anime ..

In mid-1937, he began advocating for Marvel Mills Logan, Kentucky's junior senator, to be appointed to the Supreme Court, creating a Senate vacancy to which Chandler, as governor, could appoint himself.

In January 2002, Marvel Comics began publishing an X-Men: Evolution comic book, partially based on the show.

In 2006 Marvel Comics and Dabel Brothers Productions began production on a graphic novel adaptation of the first three books in the series, beginning with Guilty Pleasures.

In 1980, while still drawing The Avengers for Marvel, Pérez began working for their rival DC Comics.

Officially sanctioned by the BBC, the magazine began life as Doctor Who Weekly in 1979, published by the UK arm of Marvel Comics.