The Origin of Marvel: The Beginning of an Era

 

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Hello Buddies,

Its our first post, so we thought that we should start with an origin story and we fans know that nothing would be better than the origin story of Marvel Comics because many of us know many things about Marvel Comics but most of us don't know about how the biggest comic entity started. So, I am bringing to you the origin story of Marvel Comics. Now, lets get started...

Evolution of Marvel

In 1939, the company was first founded as Timely Publications by the Pulp Magezine Publisher, Martin Goodman and later in 1950s it became Atlas Comics and sooner in 1961, it started to become Marvel Comics and by then it is the same. (Isn't it shocking that the gem we love had different names in the past, but after all its the perfect name that anyone could give it 'MARVEL'.)

Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). Cover art by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

   
       
The company in its beginning, started to gain attention of public and became popular because of its badass characters and one of the main reason for this was the company's first true editor, writer-artist Joe-Simon, who had teamed up with artist Jack Kirby to create one of the first patroitacally themed superhero, Captain America, in the first issue of 'Captain America Comics' in March 1941 and it proved to be a hit with sales of nearly one million and it was an amazing reach at that time and by then the stats started to touch the sky.

The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). Cover art by Jack Kirby and unconfirmed inker

In 1961, Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics by introducing superheroes designed to appeal to older readers than the predominantly child audiences of the medium. Modern Marvel's first superhero team, the titular stars in the first issue of The Fantastic Four which was released in Nov 1961, and now Marvel comics started to focus on characterization and adult issues to a greater extent than most superhero comics before them, and it was highly appreciated by the new generation comic lovers. This applied to The Amazing Spider-Man title in particular, which turned out to be Marvel's most successful book. As we all know through the movies that the young hero suffered from mundane problems and self-doubt and this was the reason that most of the young fans connected themselves with their new young superhero who was just like them in nature.

The Amazing Spider-man #1 (March 1963). Cover aryt by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko

In addition to Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, Marvel began publishing further superhero titles featuring such heroes and antiheroes as the Thor (1952), Ant-Man (1959), Iron Man (1959), Hulk (1962), the X-Men (1963), Doctor Strange (1963), Daredevil (1964), the Inhumans (1965), Black Panther (1966), Silver Surfer (1966) and Captain Marvel (1967), and such memorable antagonists as Loki (1962), Doctor Doom (1962), Magneto (1963), The Green Goblin (1964) and Galactus (1966). (If you don't know, all characters existing in a shared reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.)

Cover of Iron Man #1 (May 1968); art by Gene Colan  and Mike Esposito

So, this was the origin story of Marvel Comics. You are thinking that where is the story ahead? Its because these were the events which took marvel to sky and afterwards its going on.

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