Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Most importantly, the Marvel Universe also incorporates examples of almost all major science fiction and fantasy concepts, with writers adding more continuously.

Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.

Most aliens are from different planets, who have a source of origin near the Solar System and in the Milky Way Galaxy, although, unlike the Marvel Universe, alien colonies are common within the solar system.

Most What If stories begin with Uatu describing an event in the mainstream Marvel Universe, then introducing a point of divergence in that event and then describing the consequences of the divergence.

Most Marvel writers have resisted portraying him as a standard-fare villain, thereby adding levels of sympathy and complexity to the character.

Most of the characters used in the final concept were reimagined versions of existing Marvel characters, with additional original characters for the series developed by Busiek and designed by Bagley.

* Most of the post-Civil War Thunderbolts appear in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2.

Most mainstream titles have since returned to traditional all upper-case lettering but titles specifically marketed to younger readers or a more manga audience such as the Marvel Adventures line, Runaways and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane have retained mixed case lettering.

Most Mature Readers books will fall under the MAX comics banner ( created specifically for mature content titles ), MAX and Mature-themed titles will continue to be designed to appear distinct from mainline Marvel titles, with the " MAX: Explicit Content " label very prominent on the cover.

Most productions of Marvel Productions are now owned by The Walt Disney Company, with the several exceptions.

Most were written by Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee and / or Larry Lieber, and generally penciled by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, or Don Heck, though occasionally by Paul Reinman or Joe Sinnott.

Most famously, the Stan Lee-instigated " Marvel Method " saw the writer's role reduced solely to writing the words, leaving the burden of storytelling with the artist.

Most of the regular figures / characters featured in the strip are principally those based on Marvel Comics characters, such as Spider-Man ( popularly known as " Mego Spidey ") and the Incredible Hulk.

Most VTVMs and FET-VMs handle DC voltage, AC voltage, and resistance measurements ; modern FET-VMs add current measurements and often other functions as well.

Most line codes eliminate the DC component — such codes are called DC-balanced, zero-DC, DC-free, zero-bias, DC equalized, etc.

Most automotive applications use DC, although the alternator is an AC device which uses a rectifier to produce DC.

Most electronic circuits require a DC power supply.

Most monuments are located in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, although some exist in other countries ; notably a statue in Washington, DC on Massachusetts Avenue, as well as in Chicago on the Midway and in San Francisco in Rose garden.

Most of Charlton's superhero characters were acquired in 1983 by DC Comics, where Giordano was then managing editor.

Most units can be powered by AC or DC cables, as well as batteries.

Most SWT services are on electrified lines using the 750 V DC third-rail system.

Most operate on propane or AC ( 2-way ), while some add 12V DC ( three-way ).

Most of the other coaxial DC power connectors have no specified voltage association, however.

Most will survive with no reverse DC bias or with only AC voltage, but circuits should be designed so that there is not a constant reverse bias for any significant amount of time.

Most practical envelope detectors use either half-wave or full-wave rectification of the signal to convert the AC audio input into a pulsed DC signal.

Most miniseries is anywhere from two to 12 issues ( a story contained in a single issue is termed a one-shot ; for a time DC Comics used the term " maxi-series " for a 12-issue miniseries, but this term has been abandoned ).

Most members of the party were former Christian Democrats ( DC ): Giuseppe Pisanu ( former member of the leftist faction of DC and Minister of Interior ), Roberto Formigoni ( President of Lombardy ), Claudio Scajola ( former Minister of the Interior and of Industry ), Enrico La Loggia, Renato Schifani, Guido Crosetto, Raffaele Fitto, Giuseppe Gargani, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Giorgio Carollo, Giuseppe Castiglione, Francesco Giro, Luigi Grillo, Maurizio Lupi, Mario Mantovani, Mario Mauro, Osvaldo Napoli, Antonio Palmieri, Angelo Sanza, Riccardo Ventre and Marcello Vernola are only some remarkable examples.

Most Soviet, Czech ( USSR ordered the passenger electric locomotives to Czech Skoda factory ), Russian and Ukrainian locomotives can only operate as DC or as AC.

Most refrigerators, air conditioners, pumps and industrial machinery use AC power whereas most computers and digital equipment use DC power ( the digital devices you plug into the mains typically have an internal or external power adapter to convert from AC to DC power ).

Most DC to DC converters also regulate the output voltage.

Most likely the reason for the title change was that DC received a cease and desist letter from Better Publications, Inc., who had been publishing a comic book entitled Best Comics since November 1939.

Most of his logos were for DC until he became a full-time freelancer in 1987, when he began creating logos for other companies as well.

Most modern Pueblo peoples ( whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans ) assert the ancient Pueblo did not " vanish ", as is commonly portrayed in media presentations or popular books, but migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams.

Most companies had their software on the books for 0 dollars, unable to claim it as an asset ( this is similar to financing of popular music in those days ).

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Other non-fiction books include The Complete English Tradesman ( 1726 ) and London, the Most Flourishing City in the Universe ( 1728 ).

Most of Hofstadter's books are characterized by some kind of structural alternation: in GEB between dialogues and chapters, in The Mind's I between selections and reflections, in Metamagical Themas between Chapters and Postscripts, and so forth.

Most of his hundreds of woodcuts were commissioned for books, as was usual at the time ; his " single-leaf " woodcuts ( i. e. prints not for book illustration ) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number.

Most of the warmblood breeds used in sport horse disciplines, have open stud books to varying degrees.

Most of the English clergy were irritated by this encounter, and attacks upon Wycliffe began, finding their response in the second and third books of his work dealing with civil government.

Most types of books of high-volume text are printed with offset lithography, the most common form of printing technology.

Most books, indeed all types of high-volume text, are now printed using offset lithography.

Most liturgical books came with a calendar in the front.

Both Greg Bright ( The Hole Maze Book ) and Dave Phillips ( The World's Most Difficult Maze ) published maze books in which the sides of pages could be crossed over and in which holes could allow the pathways to cross from one page to another, and one side of a page to the other, thus enhancing the 3-D routing capacity of 2-D printed illustrations.

Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including " To market, to market " and " Cock a doodle doo ", which date from at least the late 16th century.

Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books.

Most of these are slight differences in the wording of the prayers ; for instance, Oriental Sephardic and some Hasidic prayer books state " חננו מאתך חכמה בינה ודעת ", " Graciously bestow upon us from You wisdom ( ḥochmah ), understanding ( binah ) and knowledge ( daat )", in allusion to the Kabbalistic sefirot of those names, while the Nusach Ashkenaz, as well as Western Sephardic and other Hasidic versions retain the older wording " חננו מאתך דעה בינה והשכל ", " Graciously bestow upon us from You knowledge, understanding, and reason ".

Most of the Classic Traveller books are available in compendium volumes from Far Future Enterprises, which is the current copyright and trademark holder of all forms of the Traveller game.

Most modern biblical scholars believe that the written books were a product of the Babylonian exilic period ( c. 600 BCE ) and that it was completed by the Persian period ( c. 400 BCE ).

Most versions of the Christian Old Testament count Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah as two books each, and the " Twelve Prophets " ( or the minor prophets ) as 12 books, giving rise to a count of 39 books for the Old Testament.

Most important, all of these books acknowledged and celebrated the conscious cultivation of erotic pleasure.

Most recently it has compiled seven books of selected questions and answers from the Last Word section of the magazine and the Last Word website.

Aside from journalism, Kelly has written books describing political developments starting with The Unmaking of Gough ( 1976 ) on the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam ( later titled The Dismissal: Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle: The Dramatic Fall of Gough Whitlam ).

Most of his scientific work during this time consisted of essays on botany and ethnology, but he also prefaced and translated many books about travels and explorations, including a German translation of Cook's diaries.

Most of the serials were later published as books after his death.