Parent company | Marvel Comics |
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Status | Discontinued (1995) |
Founded | 1994 |
Founder | Terry Stewart |
Headquarters location | New York City |
Key people |
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Publication types | Comics |
Fiction genres | Rock and roll |
Subsidiary | |
Industry | Music |
Predecessor | Mighty Marvel Music Corporation and Marvel Music Group, Inc. |
Founded | September 22, 2005 |
Products | Soundtracks, music publishing |
Parent |
Marvel Studios (The Walt Disney Studios) (The Walt Disney Company) |
Marvel Music is Marvel Studios's music arm. Marvel Music used to be an imprint of Marvel Comics, and the former music publishing subsidiaries of Marvel Entertainment Group, Mighty Marvel Music Corporation and Marvel Music Group, Inc..
Mighty Marvel Music Corporation and Marvel Music Group, Inc. (both incorporated on July 29, 1981) ) were music publishing subsidiaries of Marvel Entertainment Group that were retained by New World Entertainment when Marvel was sold to Andrews Group in 1989. and were with New World when they were sold to Fox.
Marvel Music was a short-lived Marvel Comics imprint published in 1994–1995,
Marvel had previous done some music based comics. The premiere issue of Marvel Comics Super Special, dated simply 1977, featured the rock band Kiss in a 40-page fictional adventure written by Steve Gerber, penciled by John Romita Jr., Alan Weiss, John Buscema, Rich Buckler, and Sal Buscema, which saw the quartet battling Marvel supervillains Mephisto and Doctor Doom. Issue 50 of Marvel Premiere (stand date of October 1979) featured a story, "From the Inside", with Alice Cooper.Neil Gaiman in 1991 was approached by Epic Records on Cooper's behalf to design a "concept record". Gaiman, recalling the Marvel Premiere with Cooper agreed. This record, The Last Temptation was released in 1994. Revolutionary Comics had Rock 'N' Roll Comics series that put out unauthorized-biography of musicians and bands, over which the company was sued at least twice.