The beginning of Marvel : The founder of Marvel Comics is a person named Martin Goodman , he worked for many years with various titles in publishing until he was able toestablish his own publication called Timely . In the late 1930s, with the rise of comic strips , Goodman thought of publishing products of this category. Finally, in 1939, Marvel Comics was formed and the first issue appeared with the first superhero in Marvel history.
Martin Goodman with his wife
A short story about an event that could destroy the Marvel world like “a break of Thanos”.
In 1937, two years before Marvel Comics was founded , Martin Goodman and his newlywed wife Jean Davis were on their honeymoon in Europe. They thought it would be a good idea to return to America by airship at the end of their trip. Goodman went to buy tickets, there were only 2 tickets left, but there was a problem, the two seats on the ship were not next to each other and they had to sit apart during the three days of air travel. So Goodman changed his mind and went to seize the plane ticket.
But on May 6, 1937, the airship they were about to board exploded while docking at the New Jersey Naval Station, killing 36 people.
German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, which was used for air transport
Picture of Stanley, the creator of Marvel comics
In 1939, Martin Goodman entered the comic strip business, when Goodman’s wife’s cousin, 17-year-old Stanley Lieber (known as Stan Lee), was looking for a job. Stanley was hired as a publishing assistant. At that time, the name of the publication was still Timely , but a few years later, both the name of the publication and its famous assistant changed.
In 1961, the name of Goodman’s publications was officially changed from Timely to Marvel Comics . Also, Stanley Lieber, who was the main author of the stories in the publication and published them under a pseudonym, legally and officially replaced that pseudonym with his own name. (from Stanley Martin Lieber to Stan Lee)
Spider-man, HULK, Iron Man, Black Panther, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Nick Fury, the head of the SHIELD organization and the assembler of the Avengers team, Loki and many great characters of the Marvel Universe by Stan Lee have been created
Of course, he was not alone in this way. Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and some other designers collaborate with him in creating these characters.
An image of Tom Holland , who played the role of Spider-Man in 2018 and 2019, has been circulating on social networks, which shows the similarity of his face to the features of Stan Lee , the creator of the character of Spider-Man .
The first superhero of Marvel Comics is called Human Torch . This superhero in the early stories was a kind of human weapon that was transformed into a fiery human in the laboratory. But later he became a member of the Fantastic 4 group
The Human Torch character was created by three people: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Carl Burgos.
Stan Lee has had an honorable presence (cameo) in 60 films and animated films from the Marvel Universe. He has had a cameo role in all the films of the first 3 phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That is, from 2008 to 2018, which was the last year of Stan Lee’s life. Of course, before his death, he had also played the videos related to the movie “Avengers 4” and “Spider-Man: Far From Home“, which were released in 2019. Watch the video Here
Stan Lee, the assistant and main writer of Marvel Comics, died on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95, leaving all his superheroes alone.
In the second half of the nineties, Marvel was going bankrupt and tried to save itself from destruction by selling the rights to use its characters to different companies.
The franchise of “X-men” characters , including “Wolverine” along with the “Fantastic 4” group and several other characters, was assigned to the “20th Century Fox” company (of course, Disney in 2018, this He also bought the company for 71 billion dollars.
Marvel did not have the ability to mass produce, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Black Panther and Captain America and… there was no news of any of these. When SONY came to Spider-Man, Marvel offered to buy the rights to all their characters. But Sony disagreed. According to the website “wsj.com”, when the head of Sony went to buy the right to use “Spider-Man“, Marvel suggested that Sony could use all Marvel characters for $25 million.
He (Sony) paid 10 million dollars for (Spider-Man) and said: Who cares about the others?!… They are all bullshit.
Maybe he was right then. All movies made of Marvel characters were complete failures. And who would have thought that one day a movie with Marvel characters would experience a global sales of more than 2 million dollars.
Below you can see the image of the Marvel characters whose rights are owned by Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and LionsGate Entertainment.
In 2009, Disney purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. A decade later, in 2019, Disney earned more than $18 billion from the worldwide sales of Marvel movies.
Marvel Comics was founded in 1939. Its legendary founder and assistant have passed away, and the heroes they created live on. With the addition of NETFLIX to the movie and series production giants, a number of Marvel characters were also assigned to them.
