Marvel Comics

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About

Marvel Comics is a comic book producing company famous for making iconic superheroes. Some of Marvel’s most notable heroes are “The Avengers”, “Spiderman”, “X-Men”, and “The Fantastic Four”.^[1] Aside from comic books, Marvel has many movies, books, and television shows inspired by the original comics as well.

Origin

The company was launched by Martin Goodman as a series of comics first called,“Timely Publications” and “Atlas Comics” before becoming Marvel Comics. Some members of Marvel’s central team are Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko.^[1]

Fandom

Marvel is currently one of the most popular comic book companies to date and has amassed a massive following online. One major reason for Marvel’s internet popularity is because of the immensely popular movie adaptations, particularly “The Avengers”. Various Marvel inspired social networking pages have been created on Marvel including on Twitter,^[2]Facebook,^[3]Tumblr,^[4] and Reddit.^[5]

Related Memes

The Avengers

The Avengers is a comic surrounding a team of various superheroes from the Marvel Universe. This team constantly changes its line-up, but the original members were Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Wasp. The movie has found a huge resurgence in popularity as of late due to the popularity of the live-action movie known as simply “The Avengers”, directed by Joss Whedon.^[6] The movie is currently the third highest-grossing movie in the world.^[7] The movie adaptation has even garnered its own massive subculture and various memes.