Marvel Comics

To understand the nature of Lee, you have to take a step back and understand who Lee was before the Marvel phenomenon: a dispirited, middle-aged company stooge working in a dying industry, with no reason to believe anything could change. He was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on December 28, 1922, the first child of middle-class Jewish parents. Stanley’s father, Jack, had been a dressmaker but suffered from chronic unemployment during the Depression. “Seeing the…

The Marvel Universe once again shows the world its progressive side as it adds another person of color to its Marvel stable of superheroes. As of this past Thursday, the announcement of African American actor Michael B. Jordan to play the role of Johnny Storm in the forthcoming reboot of the Fantastic Four hit the internet. As to no surprise, many Marvel fans were indignant over the decision to move forward with a melanin inclined Johnny Storm. However, despite backlash from some disgruntled…

Marvel Entertainment is now a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, but it was not always this way. Marvel Entertainment got its start a long time ago, back in 1939, when it was founded by Martin Goodman, a New York pulp magazines publisher. However, back then, the company was not known as Marvel Entertainment, or even Marvel Comics, but rather as, Timely Publications (TIMELINE). In 1939, Goodman was convinced by a sales manager at comic book company by the name of Funnies Inc., that comic…

Marvel is an ever expanding universe of superheroes and villains mostly created by Stan Lee. The cinematic world of Marvel is centered on making the heroes in the comics come to life through action-packed movies. There have been thousands of characters throughout history, including superheroes, villains and certain groups of individuals that have all shaped Marvel’s cinematic universe. Usually, in the films, they will slightly differ from the original comics and take on their own roles. What has…

Phase Three of the highly successful Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is drawing to a close with three films scheduled for this year, three for 2018 (one of which is the highly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War part 1), and two in 2019. At this stage, there is only one movie scheduled after Phase Three, a supposed Spiderman sequel scheduled in 2019. With the end of the arguably largest phase of the MCU near, a lot of the major actors such as Chris Evans (Captain America) have been rumoured to be…

Background Comic books were in the groove in the 30’s and 40’s. After DC Comics published Superman in 1938, stories of mean, costumed superheroes battling criminals and enemies of the United States arose. However after World War II ended, interest for these stories decreased and superheroes were up the creek. In order to gain back the public’s interest of comic books, publishers began to fill them with romance, crime, and horror. In the early 1950’s, crime and horror comics arose, quickly…

DC and Marvel are the biggest names in the comic industry. With multiple comic lines and universes and an abundance of characters. The comics are limitless, however the movie universe is a different story. Whether you are an avid comic reader or not, and with numorous movies under each comic giant, you may have seen at least one or even multiple movies. Like with great empires, one clearly triumphs over the other. With that in mind, this so called 'war ' between the great powers in the comic…

The Hulk is a fictional superhero created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, who first appeared in the debut issue of the comic book The Incredible Hulk in May 1962 published by Marvel Comics. In his comic book appearances, the character is both the Hulk, a green-skinned, hulking and muscular humanoid possessing a vast degree of physical strength, and his alter ego Bruce Banner, a physically weak, socially withdrawn, and emotionally reserved physicist, the two existing as personalities…

In the Documentary, Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked, the history of comic book superheroes comes to life. The documentary starts with the creation of the first superhero, Superman, and from there marks the arrival of new superheroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, The X-Men, Daredevil and Sandman. It shows how the changing times altered comic book stories and that the stories reflected what was going on in the real world. Comics were also altered by affairs going on in the world in both a positive…

gimmick of sorts. The addition of these characters and the altering of iconic characters is a marketing tactic and not the progressive movement that many believe it to be. These characters exist for scandals and controversies to draw attention back to comics and ultimately increase sales. Similarly, the addition of dissimilar characters into popular works is simply a way to show inclusion. Characters that may seem to add diversity might actually just be background or secondary characters. In…