The new Marvel series started in December, 1981 and ended in November, 1982.

He started professionally in the medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics ' ninth editor-in-chief, and his work as editor in chief of Valiant Comics.

He also wrote a mini-series for Marvel Knights titled Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas, that started in September 2008, and directed the sequel Iron Man 2.

As Nightcrawler had been rejected by DC, when Cockrum started work on the new X-Men in 1975, he brought the character's costume design ( and overall unusual look ) over to Marvel.

By the time Maus started to be serialized, the " Big Two " comics publishers, Marvel and DC Comics, dominated the industry with mostly superhero titles.

After writing The Liberators for Dez Skinn's Warrior in 1985, he started work for Marvel UK the following year.

Shortly after this pilot was delivered, Marvel started having financial issues ( New World Pictures, who purchased the Marvel Entertainment Group or MEG from Cadence Industries in 1986, sold MEG in January 1989 to the Andrews Group ) and stopped work on just about everything but Muppet Babies.

He started on staff at Marvel working under Jim Novak before going freelance.

Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that explores one possible future of the Marvel Universe.

In the early 2000s, Austen started working regularly for Marvel Comics, writing and illustrating U. S. War Machine, illustrating Elektra, and writing a number of series, including Uncanny X-Men, Captain America, and The Avengers.

Brubaker left DC for Marvel Comics and Rucka opted not to continue writing without him, while Wonder Woman started volume 3.

Upon his departure from Marvel Entertainment, Jemas started 360ep, an entertainment property management firm.

In 1992, he and several other popular Marvel illustrators left the company to found Image Comics, which started a wave of comic books owned by their creators rather than by publishers.

In Marvel 1602, a world where superheroes have started to appear several hundred years early, Natasha is a freelance spy and " the most dangerous woman in Europe.

The one-episode stories generally featured obscure or little-seen characters from the Marvel universe, and often featured work by creators previously unpublished in the comics field, including Scott Lobdell ( later X-Men Writer ) who started work under the editorship of Tom DeFalco.

Workman helped Klein get started with the basic tools and techniques, and Klein studied the work of Gaspar Saladino, Workman, Ben Oda, and John Costanza ; as well as Marvel Comics letterers Tom Orzechowski, Jim Novak, and Joe Rosen.

Mazzucchelli received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and started working in comics in the early 1980s, first at Marvel Comics where, after a few fill-in jobs, he became the regular artist on Daredevil.

In 1915 a North American wrestler became the first masked wrestler ever when Mort Henderson started wrestling as the " Masked Marvel " in the New York area.

He then started submitting various stories to Marvel, but was systematically rejected by various editors including Tom DeFalco.

Later, Tom started editing Marvel Comics Presents ( a bi-weekly book ) requiring many writers, pencillers and inkers.

Filing with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise money to finance the new corporation, Marvel, Isaac Perlmutter's Zib, Inc. and Avi Arad sold Toy Biz stocks, which Marvel had started and took public in February 1995.

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

Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939, publishing comic books under the imprint 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.

Morgan's most famous performance was in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), in which he played the carnival huckster " Professor Marvel ", the gatekeeper of the Emerald City, the driver of the carriage drawn by " The Horse of a Different Color ", the armed guard leading to the Wizard's hall, the apparition of the Wizard as a monstrous disembodied Head, and the Wizard himself.

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.

* Professor Marvel, portrayed by Frank Morgan, the touring magician / fortune teller who became the Wizard in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

* Marvel ( magazine ), an American science fiction magazine published between 1939 and 1941 and briefly in 1950

* Angel ( Thomas Halloway ), a Marvel Comics superhero originally appearing in 1939

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

His first effort, Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ), featured the first appearances of writer-artist Carl Burgos ' android superhero, the Human Torch, and Paul Gustavson's costumed detective the Angel.

Marvel Comics was rechristened Marvel Mystery Comics with issue # 2 ( Dec. 1939 ) — the magazine would continue under that title through # 92 ( June 1949 ) before becoming Marvel Tales through # 159 ( Aug. 1957 ) — and Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with Daring Mystery Comics # 1 ( Jan. 1940 ), Mystic Comics # 1 ( March 1940 ), Red Raven Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1940 ), The Human Torch # 2 ( premiering Fall 1940 with no cover date and having taken over the numbering from the unsuccessful Red Raven ), and Captain America Comics # 1 ( March 1941 ).

Paul also painted covers for Planet Stories, Superworld Comics, Science Fiction magazine, and the first issue ( October – November, 1939 ) of Marvel Comics.

He was also the cover artist of Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ), the first ever Marvel Comic.

Writer-artist Ben Thompson adapted the pulp story " King of Fang and Claw " by Bob Byrd for Goodman's first comic book, Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ).

This character was later integrated into Marvel Comics ( then called Timely Comics ) via Marvel Mystery Comics | Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ).

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

Beginning in the mid-1940s, he worked for several years with Stan Lee on comic books at Timely Comics ( now known as Marvel Comics ), ranging from Combat Kelly and The Ringo Kid to Tessie the Typist.

He worked for numerous companies including Marvel Comics ' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics ; Vin Sullivan's Magazine Enterprises, where he created Skyman ; and at EC, where he served a brief stint as head writer.

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.

* Timely Comics ' Marvel Mystery Comics with the Human torch (# 92, June 1949 ), Sub-Mariner Comics (# 32, June 1949 ), and Captain America Comics ( then Captain America's Weird Tales ) at issue # 75 ( February 1950 ); and a transformation to the Atlas Comics logo on comics cover-dated November 1951.

Among the many licensed Terrytoons products are comic books, with the company's characters initially licensed to Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics, in the early 1940s.

* Girl Comics, a title from Timely Comics, Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics

In comic books, Jack Frost appears as a superhero in works published by Timely Comics ( Marvel Comics ) in the 1940s.

Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s – 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.

Timely Comics, an imprint of Timely Publications, was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.