* 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.

* Cadence Industries, publishing company formed in 1970s that owned Marvel Comics

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

McFarlane then left Marvel with six other popular artists to form Image Comics, an umbrella company under which each owned a publishing house.

It is also home to the brand-new manufacturing and design center of Northland Marvel, an undercounter refrigeration company that just became a part of the UK-based AgaRangemaster group.

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.

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.

In December 1991, a group of these illustrators approached Marvel president Terry Stewart and demanded that the company give them ownership and creative control over their work.

The producer / story editor was John Semper, Jr. and the production company was Marvel Films Animation.

The Flatiron Building is also the home of the fictional company Damage Control in the Marvel Universe comics and for the CIA sponsored, super hero management team " The Boys " in the Dynamite Comics title of the same name.

* Marvel Entertainment, an American entertainment company

** Marvel Animation, an animation production company

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.

Aragonés and Evanier eventually negotiated a deal with Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics, for that company to take care of publication while preserving creator rights.

In the meantime, the abandoned trademark had been seized by Marvel Comics in 1967, disallowing the DC comic itself to be called that.

Also, time itself passes much differently within the confines of the Marvel Universe than it does in the real world.

The fifth Captain Marvel is Khn ' nr, a Skrull sleeper agent who is bound with Mar-Vell's DNA to lock itself into Mar-Vell's form and given technological replicas of the Kree Nega-Bands.

The segment's title likely derives from the DC Comics superhero organization The Justice League and its sanitized animated cartoon version, Super Friends, though the team itself was clearly a parody of Marvel's Avengers as the three main characters were loosely based on Marvel Comics characters.

" He has also pointed out that the marriage itself was editorially-mandated ; Stan Lee decided to marry the characters in his daily newspaper strip and, even though the two were not even dating at the time in the comic book series, it was decided to marry them in the regular Marvel Universe as well.

Eventually, after a storyline in which the Sage's dog had been kidnapped and Groo aided him in recovering the dog, the " secret " was revealed in a throw-away moment, with Groo asking in a " by-the-way " manner what the dog's name was, and the Sage replying with the nondescript name, " Mulch " ( in itself a reference to another running gag in the Marvel / Epic run, see above ).

The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by Marvel itself.

The character of RoboCop itself was inspired by British comic book hero Judge Dredd as well as the Marvel Comics superhero Rom.

The mini-series Marvel 1602 reveals that, although The Fantastic Four # 13 was the first time he broke his oath, the anomalous appearance of Marvel's superheroes more than 300 years early-speculated by Uatu to be the result of the universe trying to create the means to save itself from a temporal anomaly-forced him to severely bend it, communicating with the 1602 version of Doctor Strange prior to the latter's death, his deal with Strange preventing Strange from telling anyone else about the danger facing the world while he lived while allowing him to communicate that knowledge with others after his physical body's demise.

He then proceeds to trap the last zombie, the Sentry, in a time-loop paradox by sending him back in time to Earth-2149, starting the entire Marvel Zombies Saga from the beginning and keeping the zombie infection contained in these two realities so that it will ' devour itself '.

There also were two ongoing Real Ghostbusters comics, one published monthly by Now Comics in USA and the other published weekly ( originally biweekly ) by Marvel Comics in the United Kingdom, and a popular toy line manufactured by Kenner ( the toyline lasted longer than the television series itself ).

The superhero-team comic The Defenders # 89 ( Nov. 1980 ) further established that the earlier stories were fictional works published within the fictional Marvel Universe itself, and written by Patsy's mother Dorothy Walker though based upon Patsy's own life and friends.

Reed Richards theorized that the Celestials ' source of power is Hyperspace itself – the source of all energy in the Marvel Universe – a suggestion seemingly confirmed by the Invisible Woman's ability to destroy Exitar's physical form with her hyperspace-sourced force fields.

The possibility of this name being applied to Metroplex was long enough in consideration that both the storyboards for The Transformers: The Movie and the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film itself refer to the city's transformed state as " Fortress Maximus.

The idea of an alien being absorbing energy is similar to both the Marvel Comics character Galactus, who drains energy from other worlds to survive, and the giant space ship from the Star Trek episode " The Doomsday Machine " which destroys planets and uses them to fuel itself, though predating both by almost ten years.

In 1990s Lobdell became known for his work on Marvel Comics ' X-Men-related titles, specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X.

The known exceptions are adamantium itself and Captain America's shield, which is composed of a vibranium and an experimental " steel alloy ", the only substance in the Marvel Universe known to be even harder than adamantium.

The entity was shown to be one of the four greatest undying otherdimensional " multi-angled ones ", behind the metaphysical " cancerverse " invasion when that universe's Captain Marvel spoke its name during an incantation, striving to destroy Death itself.

Marvel UK began to establish itself as a major publisher of weekly comic titles ( along with D. C Thomson and IPC ) under the direction of editor-in-chief Neil Tennant ( later one of the Pet Shop Boys ).

After the debut, Leo Ortolani chose to self-publish the comic alongside his primary job as a geologist ; however, in 1997 Leo signed a contract with Marvel Italia, today a brand owned by Panini Comics ( and, at the time, a branch of Marvel Comics itself ), to publish the comic under the Marvel brand, which allowed Leonardo to become a full-time comics author.