This would be ignored and retconned away in later Ultimate Marvel titles.

What happens on Earth in the main Marvel Universe would normally have no effect on what happens on a parallel Earth in another Marvel-created universe.

He went on to contribute much significant work to Marvel, including co-creating Spider-Man, who would become the company's flagship character.

He'd been trying obliquely to sell a comic book premise to DC or Marvel, but neither company would allow Aragonés to retain the copyright.

" In an interview in 1986, Ken St Andre stated that " my conception of the T & T world was based on The Lord of The Rings as it would have been done by Marvel Comics in 1974 with Conan, Elric, the Gray Mouser and a host of badguys thrown in.

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.

Byrne was then replaced by Nicieza and Scott Lobdell, who would take over the majority of writing duties for the X-Men until Lee's own departure months later when he and several other popular artists ( including former X-title artists Liefeld, Portacio, and Marc Silvestri ) would leave Marvel to form Image Comics.

Marvel launched a number of solo series, including Deadpool, Cable, Bishop, X-Man, and Gambit, but few of the series would survive the decade.

It is notable as the first appearance of Firestar in a Marvel Comics story, though the version of Firestar that exists within Marvel continuity would not appear until Uncanny X-Men # 193 ( May 1985 ).

Marvel Comics and Orson Scott Card announced on April 19, 2008 that they would be publishing a limited series adaptation of Ender's Game as the first in a comic series that would adapt all of Card's Ender's Game novels.

At Marvel, Miller would settle in as a regular fill-in and cover artist, working on a variety of titles.

Expected to come to air in 2013, the characters of Phineas & Ferb and Marvel Universe characters, including Spider-Man and The Avengers, would be paired in a crossover special called Phineas & Ferb: Mission Marvel, which would use the plot device of a " inator " device of Dr. Doofenshmitz removing the powers of the superheroes, and the characters of Phineas & Ferb helping them get their powers back while fighting against Marvel villains.

Marvel also had a character named The Jester who would use little toys that were made into weapons by the Tinkerer, such as a doll / bomb or a yo-yo / grenade.

In February 2008, 20th Century Fox announced Schreiber would play the mutant supervillain, Sabretooth in the Marvel Comics film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released on May 1, 2009.

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.

Historian William Marvel suggests that since both Anderson and Johnson acknowledged their own reliefs, " There is therefore no reason to suspect an order would not have been issued relieving Pickett, both because his division had been shattered beyond repair and because of his allegedly poor performance at Five Forks.

Adams penciled and colored, paired for the first time with inker Tom Palmer, with whom he would collaborate on several acclaimed Marvel comics ; the duo's work here netted them 1969 Alley Awards for Best Pencil Artist and Best Inking Artist, respectively.

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.

Kirby ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics.

Xavier later recruits her as a teenager to be part of his X-Men team as " Marvel Girl ", the team's sole female member.

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.

Six years later, however, Marvel decided to revive the original Jean Grey ; so as to absolve her from Dark Phoenix's atrocities, the story was retconned to make Jean Grey and Dark Phoenix two separate beings and reveal that the original Jean Grey had been lying unconscious in a cocoon while Dark Phoenix's nefarious deeds were committed, in no way responsible for them ; thus cleared of the moral stain, Jean Grey could go on to a further long and varied career.

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.

Alongside the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, Amazing Friends was later re-aired in the late 1980s as part of the 90 minute Marvel Action Universe ( not to be confused with 1977's The Marvel Action Universe ), a syndicated series that was used as a platform for old and new Marvel-produced animated fare ( the newer programming featured RoboCop: The Animated Series, Dino-Riders and on occasion “ X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men ”, which was intended to serve as a pilot for a potential X-Men animated series ).

* In the future world of Marvel Comics ' Killraven ( 1973 ), the Martian Masters who orchestrated the invasion in The War of the Worlds returned to Earth a century later and conquered it ; they were overthrown by rebels led by the psychic human Jonathan Raven, alias Killraven.

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 ).

A year later, Secret Wars II was published, with the Beyonder visiting Earth and having a tie-in with every single Marvel comic book at the time.

Hal, along with Green Arrow and later Supergirl, Captain Marvel Jr., and Batwoman are then recruited by Ray Palmer to investigate a murder of a former colleague carried out on orders from Prometheus.

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.

At the beginning, Charlton's main characters were Yellowjacket, not to be confused with the later Marvel character, and Diana the Huntress.

* Hepzibah, of the Marvel Comics super-team the Starjammers and, later, the Uncanny X-Men

This is a new line which features robot versions of various Marvel Comics superheroes ( and later more of the Star Wars Transformers figures once it merged with this line ).

Although Splinter was contradicted by later entries in the Star Wars film canon, it was the first " expanded universe " entry written ( although not the first published -- a Marvel Comics story holds that honor ), and as such remains highly regarded by many fans.

However, they had a big success copying Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering with their introduction of the Superhero card game, Wildstorms, which later spun off into a crossover set of cards with Marvel.

* 1000 Days: A live-action TV movie and backdoor pilot based on the Marvel Comics series Strikeforce: Morituri, about near-future soldiers who gain enhanced abilities but die 1, 000 days later.

After 1984's Marvel Super-Heroes proved the viability of the concept, TSR revised Gamma World, Star Frontiers, and Top Secret to use similar tables.

Marvel tries to explain most superpowers and their sources " scientifically ", usually through the use of fictional science-like concepts, such as:

All humans in the Marvel Universe have the ability to use magic, but only if properly trained.

Due to the nature of vibranium it is found in use of many in the Marvel Universe including: ( Note: Wakandan variety vibranium is referred to as vibranium and Antarctic variety vibranium is referred to as Anti-Metal or Antarctic Vibranium )

* In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, the Tinkerer discovered a way to use vibranium as a power source.

Category: Marvel Comics characters who use magic

More superheroes soon joined Marvel in carrying on the legacy of Shazam, including Marvel Family members Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr. Shazam tells that once, 5000 years before, he gave powers to Black Adam, but banished him to the furthest star in the universe for trying to use them to take over the world.

Bessemer's rapid growth in its early days led to the nickname of " The Marvel City ", a moniker which still finds occasional use today.

Originally, Marvel Films planned to make the backgrounds completely CGI while Spider-Man ' webslinged ' around New York, yet due to budget constraints were forced to use traditional cel based animation while occasionally using CGI backgrounds.

An example in the comic book genre is John Byrne's resplendent use of cameos in Marvel Comics ’ Iron Fist # 8, which features appearances by Byrne himself, Howard the Duck ( on a poster ), Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, Sam McCloud, Fu Manchu, and Wolverine.

Dimensions, rituals and spiritual realms are sources for magic power as seen in Ras Al Ghul's Lazarus Pit, Doctor Occult's use of the astral plane and the transformations of Captain Marvel.

She is one of Frank Miller's best-loved creations, and subsequent writers ' use of her is controversial as Marvel had originally promised to not resurrect the character without Miller's permission.

Instead of making a 13th episode of RoboCop, Marvel Productions decided to use their funding to have Toei Animation produce the animation for this pilot.

** While Thanos ' possession of the Reality Gem could grant him virtually anything that he desired, a temporarily resurrected Captain Marvel suggested that Thanos was chosen by Warlock because he was the only being in the universe wise enough not to use it.

" Choosing to use a preexisting character while keeping the series locale separate from mainstream Marvel Earth, he created Counter-Earth, a new planet generated from a chunk of Earth and set in orbit on the opposite side of the sun.

Darkstalkers introduced many of the concepts used in later Capcom fighting games, including its first use of 16-bit color animation sprites later employed in the Street Fighter Alpha and Marvel vs. Capcom series.

Possessing Rikki's body, Onslaught reveals that the real Rikki had in fact died in the Negative Zone and she was just a construct made by Onslaught himself so he could use the energy he had stored in her as an anchor to pull himself back into the main Marvel Earth.