Marvel Comics is arguably the most popular comic book line that is published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. It is a division of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. This is a very popular comic book company which is sometimes called as “The House of Ideas”. The more well-known characters that Marvel has are the X-Men, Wolverine, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, Daredevil, The Punisher and Captain America. The characters of Marvel are known to inhabit a single shared world whose continuity is recognized as the “Marvel Universe”. Most of the heroes, villains and antiheroes eventually meet up in the Marvel Universe, thus explaining the crossovers that sometimes happen.

This was originally founded way back in 1939 as “Timely Publications” and in the 1950s, it was commonly known as Atlas Comics. The modern incarnation of the company happened during the early 1960s, when they were able to launch the Fantastic Four as well as several other superhero titles which were created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Ever since that time that they launched those superheroes, Marvel has become one of the greatest and largest American comics companies along with DC Comics.

The founder of Marvel Comics was pulp-magazine publisher Martin Goodman. He founded it in 1939 by the name “Timely Publications” and based it at his existing company at 33 West 42nd Street, New York City. The titles of Goodman at the time that he founded that film were business manager, editor, managing editor. Abraham Goodman was is officially listed publisher. One title that came from this first company was the jungle lord Ka-Zar and it was adapted into comic-book story during the first Timely Comics release and it then eventually evolved into a different Marvel jungle lord introduced in the later years in the 1960s.

Because DC Comics had success reviving superheroes in the late 1950s and early 60s in the title of The Justice League of America, Marvel comics decided that it would also play that game. Editor and writer Stan Lee as well as freelance artist Jack Kirby gave birth to the comic book, the Fantastic Four. The title portrayed superheroes who were bickering and complaining as much as any ordinary guy. This type of portrayal of “superheroes in the real world” was able to give the comic title enough real world feel so that the superheroes didn’t feel as if they were copied off other comic books. Marvel Comics also began launching different comic book titles, superheroes such as Spider-Man, antiheroes such as the Hulk, Iron Man and Daredevil and villains and antagonists such as Galactus, the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus and Magneto.

Marvel Comics was famous for concentrating on characterization to a greater extent than most superhero comics before them. Their superheroes essentially had mundane problems and veered away from the perfect and flawless nature of comic book superheroes that preceded them. Thus, this became an approach that was accepted by the public and it essentially transformed the way publishers would do and write comic books.