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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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Superhero comics
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Superhero comics are the most common genre of American comic books. The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s and has remained the dominant form of book in North America since the 1960s. Superhero comics feature stories about superheroes and the universes these characters inhabit, in comics format, superpowered and costumed heroes like Popeye and The Phantom had appeared in newspaper comic strips for several years prior to Superman. The masked detective The Clock first appeared in the comic book Funny Pages #6, in the Great Depression and World War II era the first Superhero Comics appeared, the most popular being Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman and Captain America. Beginning in the 1950s, DC began publishing revised versions of their 1940s superhero characters such as The Flash, Anti-Hero becomes popular with appearances of the Punisher, Wolverine, Ghost Rider and a 1980s revival of Daredevil by Frank Miller. Superhero Comics became darker with the release of landmark deconstructive works such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, in the 1990s, Image Comics released successful new characters including the Anti-Hero Spawn which were predominantly creator owned as opposed to Marvel and DCs which were corporate owned. Superhero Comics of the Silver Age, The Illustrated History, Superhero Comics of the Golden Age, The Illustrated History. Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film,485 p. ISBN 978-0-06-199210-0 Jacobs, Will and Gerard Jones. The Comic Book Superheroes, from the Silver Age to the Present, xi,292 p. ISBN 0-517-55440-2 Klock, Geoff. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why and our Gods Wear Spandex, The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes. Superheroes and Gods, A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman
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The Amazing Spider-Man
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The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. In 2003 the series reverted to the order of the first volume. The title has occasionally been published biweekly, and was published three times a month from 2008 to 2010, a film named after the comic was released July 3,2012. After DC Comics relaunch of Action Comics and Detective Comics with new #1 issues in 2011, the title ended its 50-year run as a continuously published comic with issue #700 in December 2012. It was replaced by The Superior Spider-Man as part of the Marvel NOW. relaunch of Marvels comic lines, the title was relaunched in April 2014, starting fresh from issue #1, after the Goblin Nation story arc published in The Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up. In late 2015, The Amazing Spider-Man was relaunched again with a new volume with issue #1 following the 2015 Secret Wars event, the character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, and the pair produced 38 issues from March 1963 to July 1966. Ditko left after the 38th issue, while Lee remained as writer until issue 100, since then, many writers and artists have taken over the monthly comic through the years, chronicling the adventures of Marvels most identifiable hero. Most of the characters and villains of the Spider-Man saga have been introduced in Amazing. Due to strong sales on the characters first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15, the initial years of the series, under Lee and Ditko, chronicled Spider-Mans nascent career with his civilian life as hard-luck yet perpetually good-humored teenager Peter Parker. Peter balanced his career as Spider-Man with his job as a photographer for The Daily Bugle under the bombastic editor-publisher J. Jonah Jameson to support himself. By focusing on Parkers everyday problems, Lee and Ditko created a groundbreakingly flawed, self-doubting superhero, most of Spider-Mans key villains and supporting characters were introduced during this time. Issue #1 featured the first appearances of J. Jonah Jameson and his astronaut son John Jameson, and it included the heros first encounter with the superhero team the Fantastic Four. Issue #2 featured the first appearance of the Vulture and the beginning of Parkers freelance photography career at the newspaper The Daily Bugle, the Molten Man was introduced in #28 which also featured Parkers graduation from high school. Peter began attending Empire State University in #31, the issue featured the first appearances of friends and classmates Gwen Stacy. Harrys father, Norman Osborn first appeared in #23 as a member of Jamesons country club but is not named nor revealed as Harrys father until #37. One of the most celebrated issues of the Lee-Ditko run is #33, which features the dramatic scene of Spider-Man, through force of will and thoughts of family, escaping from being pinned by heavy machinery. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Steve Ditko squeezes every ounce of anguish out of Spider-Mans predicament, complete with visions of the uncle he failed and the aunt he has sworn to save. Peter David observed that After his origin, this sequence from Amazing Spider-Man #33 is perhaps the best-loved sequence from the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko era
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Spider-Man
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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, when Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several book series, the first. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers, Marvels flagship superhero team, Spider-Mans nemesis Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, the character was first portrayed in live action by Nicholas Hammond in the 1977 television movie Spider-Man. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man, in 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea. He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in demand for comic books. At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the characters approval, in a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodmans objections. In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already decided that Amazing Fantasy would be cancelled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man. While this was indeed the issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing. Will appear every month in Amazing, regardless, Lee received Goodmans approval for the name Spider-Man and the ordinary teen concept, and approached artist Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a conference, Theakston writes. Steve Ditko would be the inker, when Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly—it just wasnt the character I wanted, Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled, One of the first things I did was to work up a costume, a vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked, for example, A clinging power so he wouldnt have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. I wasnt sure Stan would like the idea of covering the characters face and it would also add mystery to the character. Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditkos cover art, as Lee explained in 2010, I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jacks covers
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Barack Obama in comics
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Barack Obama has appeared as a character in comic books published by a number of publishing companies. Obama made his first appearance as a book character in July 2007 in Licensable BearTM No.4 by Nat Gertler. The comic only had a print-run of 1,050 issues, a year later, in September 2008, Obama appeared in Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon No.137. This issue featured a variant cover which showed Obama with the Savage Dragon, the issue sold out four print runs. A month later, the comic was followed up by Presidential Material, Barack Obama by Jeff Mariotte and in November 2008 with Obama, in November 2008, two things led to an explosion in popularity of the Obama comic book character. One of Obamas advisers gave an interview to journalist Jon Swaine of The Daily Telegraph titled, Barack Obama, in the interview, it emerged that Obama collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian. Then later that month, on November 4,2008, Obama became the first African-American to be elected President of the United States,583, for the story Spidey Meets the President. This particular release proved popular and sold out in a matter of minutes. A day after the release, the edition was sold for $300 on eBay, prior to the Spider-Man story, the president-elect was featured in Secret Invasion #8, this is the first appearance of president-elect Barack Obama in a Marvel comic. Obama the comic character has been put on the cover and pages of many other comics including Savage Dragon No.145 by Erik Larsen. The Savage Dragon No.145 had a special edition variant only offered at the WonderCon 2009 in San Francisco in March 2009, on the cover, Barack Obama can be seen holding an American flag and punching Osama Bin Laden in the face. Barack Obama is the subject of graphic novel Barack Hussein Obama by Steven Weissman, in this, President Obama and his cast of characters experience life in a parallel universe. Barack Obama has also appeared in Archie Comics Veronica #199, and Archie #616, President Obama was in the Flashpoint Storyline of DC comics of 2011. He discusses the members of The Green Lantern Corp with Amanda Waller. Writer/Artist – Steven Weissman, Release – November 2012 Licensable BearTM No,4, Publisher – About Comics, Writer – Nat Gertler, Artist – Lonny Chant, Release – July 2007 Savage Dragon No. 145, Publisher – Image Comics, Writer – Erik Larsen, Artist – Erik Larsen, Release – February 2009 Youngblood No. great, great, Release – Chapter 227 Godzilla, Kingdom of Monsters No
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Chameleon (comics)
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The Chameleon is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Chameleon was born a Soviet citizen named Dmitri Smerdyakov, in his youth, he was a servant and half-brother to Kraven the Hunter and eventually became a minor associate to Gustav Fiers. Although Dmitri and Sergei were friends, Sergei was often abusive to Smerdyakov, leading to a combination of admiration, eventually, Smerdyakov emigrated to the United States of America. As he had made a talent for himself during his youth, impressing his brother by impersonating friends and neighbors, he assumed a more impressive disguise. During his first known criminal outing, he impersonated Spider-Man, though he was exposed and arrested, shortly afterward, Kravinoff, now Kraven the Hunter, himself came to America, and the Chameleon set his old associates sights on Spider-Man. Both men became enemies of Spider-Man, part of his primary rogues gallery. The Chameleon inspired Kraven to begin hunting Spider-Man, inviting Kraven to dispose of the hero, with Kraven, the Chameleon battled Iron Man, and then confronted the Hulk. At one point, the Chameleon disguised himself as Hank Pym, while delivering the documents and a shrunken Hulk to HYDRA, he was encountered and defeated by Ant-Man. The Chameleon disguised himself as the Torpedo and battled Daredevil, when Kraven the Hunter committed suicide, the Chameleon became obsessed with making Spider-Man suffer for his failure to prevent Kraven from killing himself. He ingested a serum which made his face permanently featureless and malleable and he attempted to kidnap Americas leading expert on superconductors, but was thwarted by Spider-Man. He then kidnapped J. Jonah Jameson and he approached the Maggia for support to become New Yorks new crime lord, and formed an alliance with Hammerhead. Disguised as a scientist, the Chameleon temporarily removed Spider-Mans powers and he allied himself with the Femme Fatales, the Scorpion, and Tarantula to eliminate Spider-Man and the Black Cat, but escaped when his plan failed. The Chameleons most ambitious play against Spider-Man happened when he formed an alliance with Harry Osborn as the Green Goblin, the plan led to a psychotic breakdown for both Spider-Man and Chameleon, Spider-Man briefly renouncing his civilian identity while Chameleon is sent to Ravencroft Asylum. After tricking Spider-Man to the bridge where Gwen Stacys death occurred, on the pretext of having kidnapped his wife, he declared his own loneliness, when Peter laughed, he threw himself off the bridge. He reappeared some time later in an institution, completely incapacitated. He later reappeared in his Chameleon identity as part of the Sinister Twelve villain team organized by Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin. However, the Chameleon was dealt a most humiliating defeat at the hands of Aunt May, however, May was not fooled by any means, and defeated the villain with a plate of oatmeal-raisin cookies laced with Ambien. The Rhino was also employed as part of the team up, after the Civil War, Chameleon showed up among the villains at Stilt-Mans funeral at the Bar with No Name where Punisher poisoned the drinks and blew up the bar
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Zeb Wells
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Zeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics, as well as his work on the animated TV series Robot Chicken. Wells is an Emmy and Annie Award winning writer and actor for the TV show Robot Chicken, including the Emmy-nominated Robot Chicken, Star Wars Episode II. Wells has written numerous titles like Heroes for Hire and Civil War, Young Avengers/Runaways and various Spider-Man titles and he then wrote Venom, Dark Origin telling the origin of Eddie Brock and the Symbiote, as well as the Dark Reign, Elektra tie-in series. He wrote twenty of the first twenty-one issues of the volume of New Mutants. Being published in parallel with that series was Amazing Spider-Man Presents, Wells launched the series Avenging Spider-Man with artist Joe Madureira in November 2011. Wells also wrote two Carnage, miniseries Carnage, Family Feud & Carnage, U. S. A both with artist Clayton Crain. 24/7 includes, Birthday Boy Died in Your Arms Tonight includes, Fight at the Museum The Gauntlet, Volume 5, Lizard collects, Shed Prelude Shed Origin of the Species includes, Honor Thy Father. Venom, Dark Origin #1-5 collected as V, Dark Origin Anti-Venom - New Ways to Live #1-3 collected as The ASM Presents, AV Carnage, Carnage #1-5 collected as C, Family Feud Carnage U. S. A
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Todd Nauck
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Todd Nauck is an American comic book artist and writer. Nauck is most notable for his work on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Young Justice and his own creation, naucks first assignment from Marvel Comics was writing, penciling and inking Mutant Mishaps, a story that was published on the back cover of What The--. He subsequently wrote and illustrated the Mutant Mishaps story that appeared in What The--, Nauck went on to draw such series as Badrock and Co. New Men, New Force, Supreme, Youngblood and Team Youngblood, by 1997, Nauck began work with DC Comics. After drawing several Legion of Superheroes stories, he helped launch the Young Justice series with writer Peter David, Nauck drew 53 issues of the 55 issue run of the series, including three double-sized issues and a portion of the Young Justice/Spyboy crossover mini-series. Nauck published his series, Wildguard, with Image Comics. Naucks other work includes Teen Titans #32-33, Teen Titans Go, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #11-13 and 17-23, American Dream #1-5, Spider-Man, the Clone Saga #1-6, Amazing Spider-Man #628 and the covers for X-Campus #1-4. Naucks art was featured in the season finale of the reality television show Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. They also provided art for the episodes scene transitions, which depicted Ty Pennington, Xzibit. Nauck would continue his work with Marvel Custom Solutions, teaming with writer C. B, cebulski and kitchenware retailer Williams-Sonoma to raise awareness of child hunger for Share Our Strength in Spider-Man and the Avengers #1. The twelve-page story features Edwin Jarvis hosting a cooking demonstration interrupted by the Frightful Four, official website Todd Nauck at the Comic Book DB
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Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president and he previously served in the U. S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state and he grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, in 1988 Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor, Obama represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U. S. Senate. In 2008, Obama was nominated for president, a year after his campaign began and he was elected over Republican John McCain, and was inaugurated on January 20,2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during his first two years in office, Obama signed more landmark legislation than any Democratic president since LBJs Great Society. Main reforms were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, after a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, Obama signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, Obama increased U. S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the U. S. -Russian New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, after winning re-election over Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term in 2013. Obama also advocated gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning climate change and immigration. In foreign policy, Obama ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, Obama left office in January 2017 with a 60% approval rating. He currently resides in Washington, D. C and his presidential library will be built in Chicago. Obama was born on August 4,1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu and he is the only President to have been born in Hawaii. He was born to a mother and a black father. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss and his father, Barack Obama Sr. was a married Luo Kenyan man from Nyangoma Kogelo. Obamas parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii on February 2,1961, six months before Obama was born. In late August 1961, Obamas mother moved him to the University of Washington in Seattle for a year
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