Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and a subsidiary for Marvel Entertainment.
History[]
Overview[]
The company was founded in 1939 as Timely Comics and was known as Atlas Comics in the 1950s. Marvel Comics' modern incarnation dates from the early 1960s when the superhero genre was becoming popular again, with Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko creating a number of new superhero titles. Their publishing of the ongoing series Fantastic Four in 1961 officially marked the creation of the Marvel Universe, a shared universe encompassing multiple characters and stories that share continuity with each other.
Publishing MCU tie-in comics[]
The Marvel Comics content has been adapted by Marvel Studios, as well as by Marvel Television, to the media franchise Marvel Cinematic Universe, structured in a similar fashion to the shared universe featured in mainstream Marvel Comics themselves, including the crossing over of various characters, locations and other elements between films and television series. Additionally, Marvel Comics has published several tie-in comic books set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008.
In November 2010, Marvel Comics' Joe Quesada explained their plan to expand the MCU into comics:
The MCU [comics] are going to be stories set within movie continuity. [They are] not necessarily direct adaptations of the movies, but maybe something that happened off screen and was mentioned in the movie... Kevin Feige is involved with these and in some cases maybe the writers of the movies would be involved [as well.][1]
See also[]
- Comics - MCU tie-in content published by Marvel Comics
- List of Marvel Comics Features - Features who originally appeared in Marvel Comics and were later adapted to the MCU, as well as MCU original features who were later adapted in the Marvel Comics universe.
