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Marvel Comics
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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 Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels 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. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences
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Galactus
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Galactus is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Formerly a mortal man, Galactus is an entity who originally consumed planets to sustain his life force. Galactus was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in the comic book Fantastic Four #48, Lee and Kirby had desired to introduce a character that broke away from the archetype of the standard villain, culminating in the creation of Galactus. Frequently accompanied by a herald, the character has appeared as both antagonist and protagonist in central and supporting roles, since debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books, Galactus has played a role in over five decades of Marvel continuity. The character has featured in other Marvel media, such as arcade games, video games, animated television series. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist-coplotter Jack Kirby, the character debuted in The Fantastic Four #48, as Lee recalled in 1993, Galactus was simply another in a long line of super-villains whom we loved creating. We felt the way to top ourselves was to come up with an evil-doer who had almost godlike powers. Therefore, the choice was sort of demi-god, but now what would we do with him. We didnt want to use the tired old cliche about him wanting to conquer the world, why not have him not be a really evil person. After all, a demi-god would be beyond good and evil. Hed require is the force and energy from living planets. Kirby described his Biblical inspirations for Galactus and an accompanying character, and I had to come up with characters that were no longer stereotypes. I had to get something new. And. for some reason, I went to the Bible, and I came up with Galactus. They were above mythic figures, and of course, they were the first gods, Kirby elaborated, Galactus in actuality is a sort of god. He is beyond reproach, beyond anyones opinion, in a way he is kind of a Zeus, who fathered Hercules. He is his own legend, and of course, he and the Silver Surfer are sort of modern legends, in the nascent Marvel Universe, characters acted consistently, whatever comic they were appearing in. Their actions reverberated through every title and it was pure soap opera but on a cosmic scale, and Galactus epitomized its epic sweep. This led to the introduction of Galactus in Fantastic Four #48–50, Kirby did not intend Galactus to reappear, to preserve the characters awe-inspiring presence
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Jack Kirby
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Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the mediums major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. Kirby grew up in New York City, and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and he entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, during the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. After serving in World War II, Kirby produced work for a number of publishers, including DC, Harvey Comics, at Crestwood Publications he and Simon created the genre of romance comics and later founded their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Ultimately, Kirby found himself at Timelys 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, there, in the 1960s, Kirby and writer-editor Stan Lee co-created many of the companys major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk. The Lee-Kirby titles garnered high sales and critical acclaim, but in 1970, feeling he had been treated unfairly, at DC, Kirby created his Fourth World saga, which spanned several comics titles. While these series proved unsuccessful and were canceled, the Fourth Worlds New Gods have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid-to-late 1970s, then ventured into television animation, Kirby was married to Rosalind Roz Goldstein in 1942. They had four children, and remained married until his death from heart failure in 1994, the Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor. Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28,1917, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City and his parents, Rose and Benjamin Kurtzberg, were Austrian Jewish immigrants, and his father earned a living as a garment factory worker. In his youth, Kirby desired to escape his neighborhood and he liked to draw, and sought out places he could learn more about art. He was rejected by the Educational Alliance because he drew too fast with charcoal and he later found an outlet for his skills by drawing cartoons for the newspaper of the Boys Brotherhood Republic, a miniature city on East 3rd Street where street kids ran their own government. At age 14, Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, I wasnt the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever, I didnt want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done, Kirby joined the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate in 1936, working there on newspaper comic strips and on single-panel advice cartoons such as Your Health Comes First. He remained until late 1939, when he began working for the animation company Fleischer Studios as an inbetweener on Popeye cartoons. I went from Lincoln to Fleischer, he recalled, from Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldnt take that kind of thing, describing it as a factory in a sense, like my fathers factory. Around that time, the American comic book industry was booming, Kirby began writing and drawing for the comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers
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Tumblr
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Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Yahoo. since 2013. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, Users can follow other users blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private, for bloggers, many of the websites features are accessed from a dashboard interface. As of April 1,2017, Tumblr hosts over 341.8 million blogs, as of January 2016, the website had 555 million monthly visitors. Development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a gap between contracts at David Karps software consulting company, Davidville. Karp had been interested in tumblelogs for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumblelogging platform, as no one had done so after a year of waiting, Karp and developer Marco Arment began working on their own tumblelogging platform. Tumblr was launched in February 2007 and within two weeks, the service had gained 75,000 users, Arment left the company in September 2010 to focus on Instapaper. In early June 2012, Tumblr featured its first major advertising campaign in conjunction with Adidas. Adidas launched an official soccer Tumblr blog and bought placements on the user dashboard and this launch was only two months after Tumblr announced it would be moving towards paid advertising on its site. On May 20,2013, it was announced that Yahoo. many of Tumblrs users were unhappy with the news, causing some to start a petition, achieving nearly 170,000 signatures. David Karp remained CEO and the deal was finalized on June 20,2013, Dashboard, The dashboard is the primary tool for the typical Tumblr user. It is a feed of recent posts from blogs that they follow. Through the dashboard, users are able to comment, reblog, the dashboard allows the user to upload text posts, images, video, quotes, or links to their blog with a click of a button displayed at the top of the dashboard. Users are also able to connect their blogs to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, so whenever they make a post, it also be sent as a tweet. Queue, Users are able to set up a schedule to delay posts that they make and they can spread their posts over several hours or even days. Tags, Users can help their audience find posts about certain topics by adding tags, HTML editing, Tumblr allows users to edit their blogs theme HTML coding to control the appearance of their blog. Users are also able to use a domain name for their blog. With Tumblrs 2009 acquisition of Tumblerette, an iOS application created by Jeff Rock and Garrett Ross, the site became available to BlackBerry smartphones on April 17,2010 via a Mobelux application in BlackBerry World
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Silver Surfer
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The Silver Surfer is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character also appears in a number of movies, television, the character was created by Jack Kirby, and first appeared in the comic book Fantastic Four #48, published in 1966. The Silver Surfer is a humanoid with metallic skin who can travel space with the aid of his surfboard-like craft, originally a young astronomer named Norrin Radd on the planet Zenn-La, he saved his homeworld from the planet devourer, Galactus, by serving as his herald. Imbued in return with a portion of Galactuss Power Cosmic, Radd acquired vast power, a new body. Now known as the Silver Surfer, Radd roamed the cosmos searching for planets for Galactus to consume, when his travels took him to Earth, he met the Fantastic Four, a team of powerful superheroes who helped him rediscover his humanity and nobility of spirit. Betraying Galactus, the Surfer saved Earth but was exiled there as punishment, in 2011, IGN ranked Silver Surfer 41st in its Top 100 Comic Heroes list. He was portrayed by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne in the 2007 film Fantastic Four, created by artist Jack Kirby, the character first appears in The Fantastic Four #48, the first of a three-issue arc that fans call The Galactus Trilogy. The Silver Surfer debuted as an addition to the superhero-team comic Fantastic Four #48. When Kirby turned in his art for the story, he included a new character he. As Lee recalled in 1995, There, in the middle of the story we had so carefully worked out, was a nut on some sort of flying surfboard and he later expanded on this, recalling, I thought, Jack, this time youve gone too far. Taken by the features of the new character, who turned on his master to help defend Earth, Lee overcame his initial skepticism. The Silver Surfer soon became a key part of the unfolding story, following the Surfers debut, Lee and Kirby brought him back as a recurring guest in Fantastic Four #55–61,72, and 74–77. The character made his debut in the backup story of Fantastic Four Annual #5. The following year, Lee launched the solo title The Silver Surfer, John Buscema was penciller for the first 17 issues of the series, with Kirby returning for the 18th and final issue. The first seven issues, which included anthological Tales of the Watcher backup stories, were 72-page, 25-cent giants, as opposed to the typical 36-page, 12-cent comics of the time. Thematically, the stories dealt with the Surfers exile on Earth, though short-lived, the series became known as one of Lees most thoughtful and introspective works. Following his series cancellation, the Surfer made sporadic appearances as a guest star or antagonist in such books as Thor, The Defenders. Lee remained partial to the Surfer, and with Kirby collaborated on a seminal 1978 graphic novel starring the character, after a 1982 one-shot by writer-artist John Byrne, the Surfer appeared in his second solo, ongoing title in 1987
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Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
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Miles Morales is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics, as one of the characters who goes by the identity of Spider-Man. The character was created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, with Bendis, President Barack Obama and American actor Donald Glover. Miles Morales first appeared in Ultimate Fallout #4, following the death of Peter Parker, a teenager of Black Hispanic descent, Miles is the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel, an imprint with a separate continuity from the mainstream Marvel Universe. After Marvel ended the Ultimate imprint in 2015, Miles was made a character in the main Marvel Universe, beginning with stories under the All-New, All-Different Marvel brand published that same year. Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post called for the character to be judged on the quality of its stories, the concept of a black Spider-Man was first discussed a few months before the November 2008 election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. This was a reference to an online campaign that attempted to secure Glover an audition for the lead role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man. Bendis said of Glover, I saw him in the costume and thought, so I was glad I was writing that book. When the Marvel Comics staff decided that the Ultimate universes Peter Parker would be killed in the 2011 storyline Death of Spider-Man, although Morales is the first black Spider-Man, he marks the second time a Latino character has taken the Spider-Man identity. Miguel OHara, who is of half Mexican descent, was the character in the series Spider-Man 2099. Morales has replaced Parker as Spider-Man only in Ultimate Marvel, a universe that re-imagines the characters. Miles Morales was created by comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis, Morales was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, the then-13-year-old son of an African American father and a Puerto Rican mother. Axel Alonso has described Miles as an intelligent nerd with an aptitude for science similar to his predecessor, the character made his debut in the fourth issue of the Ultimate Fallout limited series, which was released on August 3,2011. He later starred in the relaunched Ultimate Comics, Spider-Man series, written by Bendis and drawn by Pichelli, in contrasting Miles with Peter Parker, Bendis has depicted different conflicts and anxieties for the character. Pichelli also designed Spider-Mans new costume, a black outfit with red webbing. Pichelli had worked on four issues of Ultimate Spider-Man before she was approached to work on the new title with Miles Morales, in 2012, Morales appeared in the miniseries Spider-Men, in which he encounters the Spider-Man of the original Marvel universe. In June 2013, the character appeared in the climax of Age of Ultron #10, despite its initial press and critical reception, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man was not a huge hit in the direct market. Miles Morales will also be a character in the All-New Ultimates, in which he will join a team of young heroes that will include Kitty Pryde, Bombshell, Cloak and Dagger. The former title is written by Bendis, while the latter is written by Michel Fiffe, the twelfth and final issue of Miles Morales, Ultimate Spider-Man concluded with a cliffhanger that led directly into the 2015 Secret Wars storyline
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Kitty Pryde
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Katherine Anne Kitty Pryde is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 and was co-created by writer-artist John Byrne, a mutant, Pryde possesses a phasing ability that allows her, as well as objects or people she is in contact with, to become intangible. This power also disrupts any electrical field she passes through, the youngest person to join the X-Men, Kitty received her first codename, Sprite, from Storm. Professor X also suggested the codename Ariel, which Kitty adopted for a time prior to becoming Shadowcat. After joining the Guardians of the Galaxy, she replaced her fiancé, during her early years, she was portrayed as a kid sister to many older members of the X-Men, filling the role of literary foil to the more established characters. In the years since her introduction, she has aged and matured, in the X-Men film series, Kitty was portrayed by young actresses in cameos, Sumela Kay in X-Men and Katie Stuart in X2. Ellen Page portrayed the character in X-Men, The Last Stand and X-Men and she is ranked #47 in IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. Kitty Pryde was introduced into the X-Men title as the result of an editorial dictate that the book was supposed to depict a school for mutants. Uncanny X-Men artist John Byrne named Kitty Pryde after a classmate he met in art school, Alberta College of Art and he had told Pryde he liked her name and asked for permission to use it, promising to name his first original comics character after her. Byrne drew the character to resemble an adolescent Sigourney Weaver. The fictional Kitty Pryde first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129, by writer Chris Claremont and artist Byrne, Claremont said several elements of the characters personality were derived from those of X-Men editor Louise Simonsons daughter, Julie. Claremont and Byrne made the new character a full-fledged X-Man in issue #139, the six-issue miniseries Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, written by Claremont, is a coming-of-age storyline in which she matures from a girl to a young woman, adopting the new name Shadowcat. In the late 80s, she joined the British-based super team, Excalibur, in the early 2000s, she disappeared from the spotlight after semi-retiring from superhero work. She was featured in the 2002 mini-series Mekanix and came back to the main X-Men books in 2004 under the pen of Joss Whedon in Astonishing X-Men and she remained a part of the X-Men books until 2008 when she left again for roughly 2 years. After coming back, she was featured in Jason Aarons Wolverine, in early 2015, she joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. After the Secret Wars event, she adopted her new alias, shadowcats popularity had a profound effect on the real-life Kitty Pryde, the latter became so overwhelmed by attention from Shadowcat fans, she abbreviated her name to K. D. Pryde to avoid association with her fictional counterpart, katherine Anne Kitty Pryde was born in Deerfield, Illinois, to Carmen and Theresa Pryde. Of Jewish descent, her grandfather, Samuel Prydeman, was held in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II
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Brian Michael Bendis
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Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist. He has won acclaim, including five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. Starting out with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work, with Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000, on which he continues as writer. He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, and has written the Marvel event storylines Secret War, House of M, Secret Invasion. In addition to writing comics he has worked in television, video games and film and he has also occasionally taught at Portland State University. In 2014, Bendis wrote Words for Pictures, a book about comics published by Random House, brian Michael Bendis was born on August 18,1967 in Cleveland, Ohio to a Jewish-American family. Bendis grew up in University Heights where, despite rebelling against a religious upbringing, he attended the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, a private, modern Orthodox religious school for boys. He decided he wanted to be a book industry professional when he was 13, working on his own comics. A fan of Marvel Comics in particular, he emulated idols such as George Pérez, John Romita, Sr. John Romita, Jr. Jack Kirby and Klaus Janson. These in turn led him to discover the documentary Visions of Light, which taught him the explicit rules of film noir. At 19, Bendis began attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, Best known as a writer, Bendis started out as an artist, doing work for local magazines and newspapers, including caricature work. He worked at The Plain Dealer as an illustrator, although he did not enjoy caricature work, it paid well and funded his interest in writing crime fiction for graphic novels. He eventually moved into writing and illustrating his work, before he began producing work for Caliber Comics, including Spunky Todd. K. A. Most of these works share a common universe, with Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso and Total Sell Out sharing characters. In 1996/1997, Bendis moved from Caliber to Image Comics, where Jinx, at Image, he also produced five more issues of Jinx. Goldfish, Image founder Todd McFarlane sought out Bendis, which led to his writing Sam, although set in the Spawn universe, Bendis approached Sam and Twitch primarily as a crime comic. He wrote Sam and Twitch for twenty issues, as well as most of the first ten issues of Hellspawn and that same year saw the debut of the superhero police/noir detective series Powers, co-created with and drawn by Michael Avon Oeming and published by Image. Powers won major comics industry awards, including Harvey, Eisner, around the time Bendis began Sam and Twitch, his friend David Mack began working for Joe Quesadas Marvel Knights imprint, of which Bendis was a fan
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Rick Jones (comics)
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Richard Milhouse Rick Jones is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Rick has been a sidekick to the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Rom the Spaceknight and he has been an active participant in many significant Marvel Universe story lines including the Kree-Skrull War and the Destiny War. He later had acquired powers, causing him to transform into a massive creature calling himself A-Bomb, Rick Jones was created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Hulk #1. Rick Jones was born in Scarsdale, Arizona and he lost his parents at a young age and as a result grew up at an orphanage. Later, he accepts a dare to drive out to a testing ground in New Mexico. As luck would have it, the gamma bomb designed by Dr. Robert Bruce Banner is being tested, Banner pushes Rick into a protective trench saving his life, but absorbing the gamma rays that transform Banner into the Hulk. Rick thus becomes the confidant of the Hulks true identity. Jones guilt over causing the incident leads him to close to Dr. Banner. In one story, he even gains mental control over Hulk, eventually, the dangerous unpredictability of Hulk forces Rick to keep his distance. Later, Rick forms the Teen Brigade, a network of teenagers with ham radios throughout the United States. The first Teen Brigade played a role in the origin of the Avengers when the Norse god Loki tampered with the Teen Brigades radio transmission. Originally, the Teen Brigade intended to bring the Fantastic Four together to battle the Hulk, but instead brought Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, after the Hulks departure from the team, Rick becomes an honorary Avenger. He alerted the team to the Hulks presence when they began searching for Hulk and he becomes close to the recently revived Captain America although his guilt leads him to leave the Avengers and seek out Banner and Hulk on his own. This was on Jones own insistence, but Captain America continues to have guilty objections, noting that others have lost partners, Ricks brief time as Bucky gave him the training to survive around superheroes to this day. When Rick believed Hulk to be dead, he revealed the truth of Banners condition to Col. Glenn Talbot, shortly after his split with Captain America, Rick joined with the Kree Captain Marvel when he finds himself drawn to the mystical Nega-Bands. Donning the Bands, he is linked to Captain Marvel. Once joined, one of the two remains in a bubble in the Negative Zone. After either the person not in the Negative Zone strikes the Nega-Bands together or an amount of time passes
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Ultimates
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The Ultimates is a group of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team was created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch, the team is a modern reimagining of the superhero team the Avengers. Hitch described the alternative-reality reimagining as one where, You have to approach it as nothing has happened before. We had to get to the core of who these people were and build outwards, so Cap was a soldier, Banner an insecure genius, and Fury the king of cool. A second series, also by Millar and Hitch and with production delays, was released as Ultimates 2. This was followed by the one-shot Ultimate Saga, a condensed retelling, cebulski and Mindy Owens and artist Travis Charest, of the events of Ultimates and Ultimates 2. A third series, Ultimates 3 was written by Jeph Loeb, Mark Millar returned to the Ultimates with a series of shorter miniseries, beginning in 2009 with Ultimate Comics, Avengers, which ran from August 2009 until July 2011. Establishes a strike force of government-sponsored metahumans which includes Captain America, scientist couple Henry and Janet Pym, Bruce Banner, together they are based at the S. H. I. E. L. D facility, the Triskelion. When Banner injects himself with the serum and goes on a bloody rampage as the Hulk. The team then join forces with the mutants Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch and agents Hawkeye and Black Widow against the alien shape-shifters the Chitauri, who are defeated. A year later public opinion has turned against the team when it is discovered that Bruce Banner is in fact the Hulk and was responsible for hundreds of deaths, the team is undermined further when Thor is accused of being an escaped mental patient and is incarcerated. This is the doing of his brother Loki, who facilitates the creation of a new team of anti-American multi-nationals called the Liberators. With the aid of the Black Widow – who betrays the team to the Liberators – the Ultimates are captured, with the aid of Asgardian warriors, the Ultimates defeat both Loki and the Liberators. Hank Pym is under house arrest at Ultimates Mansion, one of Pyms Ultron robots drugs him and leaks a sex tape of Stark and the Black Widow to the Internet. These distract from the fatal shooting of the Scarlet Witch. Magneto abducts Wandas corpse and retreats to the Savage Land, where he is confronted by the Ultimates, Pym and Wasp discover the truth about the Ultron robot, which has adopted the identity of Yellowjacket and uses the Ultimates DNA to create a series of android duplicates. Although the true Ultimates destroy their counterparts and Yellowjacket, Quicksilver is apparently killed by Hawkeye. The Wasp then invites Pym to return to the Ultimates, the mastermind behind the robots plot is revealed to be Doctor Doom
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Ultimate X-Men
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Ultimate X-Men is a superhero comic book series that was published by Marvel Comics from 2001 to 2009. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvels long-running X-Men comic book franchise as part of its Ultimate Marvel imprint, the Ultimate X-Men exist alongside other revamped Marvel characters in Ultimate Marvel titles including Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, and The Ultimates. The protagonists are the X-Men, a group of mutants whose unusual genetics grant them superpowers which set apart from the rest of humanity. They are led by Professor Charles Xavier, the worlds most powerful telepath, the series features many characters and storylines similar to those of the original X-Men series. Ultimate X-Men almost completely ignores supernatural or mystical elements as plot devices, and the X-Men have no secret identities, and mutants are mistrusted and hunted down. The series began in 2001 under writer Mark Millar and artists Adam Kubert and Andy Kubert, whilst the final issues of the series were written by Aron Coleite, a quasi-sequel/spinoff titled Ultimate Comics, X began in February 2010, but only lasted for 5 issues. The series focused on Wolverines secret son Jimmy Hudson, Jean Grey, Ultimate X-Men was then relaunched by Nick Spencer and Paco Medina, with the title now called Ultimate Comics, X-Men. Upon its debut in February 2001, Ultimate X-Men was the comic of the Ultimate Marvel line. The heads of the Ultimate Universe line, Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada, originally tried to hire Brian Michael Bendis to write the title, but he declined. Marvel hired Scottish writer Mark Millar, who was best known at the time for his run on The Authority and was ignorant of the X-Men franchise. With the first X-Men film as his reference, Millar reinvented the X-Men. Common to the Millar period was a tone, featuring quick action-driven plots. For instance, Wolverine tries to kill Cyclops in Return of the King because he is envious of Jeans love, after Mark Millars run, Ultimate Spider-Man writer Brian Michael Bendis took over for a year. Bendis stated that his run on the book would be more character-driven, especially concerning Wolverine and this made Beast the first dead Ultimate X-Man. As a side note, Ultimate X-Men #40 features what Marvel claims to be the first marriage proposal in a comic book letters column, the third Ultimate X-Men writer was Brian K. Vaughan, best known at the time for his work on Y, The Last Man. His run was marked by the absence of Wolverine as the main character. Both are of non-alien origin in this world and have the civilian names Mojo Adams and Arthur Centino, further arcs were centered on Professor X and Deathstrike in Shock and Awe. Lady Deathstrike possesses adamantium claws and regenerative powers, Vaughan also reintroduced Emma Frosts mutant team and Magneto in Magnetic North, and established Ultimate Colossus to be homosexual
