Marvel comics
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| Parent company |
Marvel Entertainment, LLC (The Walt Disney Company) |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1939 (as Timely Comics) |
| Founder | Martin Goodman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | 135 W. 50th Street, New York City |
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| Publication types | Comics/See List of Marvel Comics publications |
| Fiction genres | Superhero, crime, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, war, Western |
| Imprints | imprint list |
| Official website | Official website |
Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company.
Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others.
Marvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Doctor Strange, Ms. Marvel, Deadpool, Wolverine and Ant-Man, such teams as the Avengers, the , the Fantastic Four, the Defenders, and the X-Men, and antagonists such as Doctor Doom, Red Skull, Green Goblin, Ultron, Doctor Octopus, Thanos, Magneto and Loki. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities. Characters such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Daredevil and Doctor Strange are based in New York City, whereas the X-Men have historically been based in Salem Center, New York and Hulk's stories often have been set in the American Southwest.
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