CREATORS | TITLES | IMAGES | IMPRINTS | CHARACTERS |
Parent company |
Marvel Entertainment, LLC (The Walt Disney Company) |
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Founded | 1939Timely Comics) | (as
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | 135 W. 50th Street, New York City |
Key people |
Axel Alonso, EIC |
Publication types | Comics/See List of Marvel Comics publications |
Fiction genres | Crime, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, war, Western, superheroes |
Imprints | imprint list |
Revenue | US$125.7 million (2007) |
Official website | [1] |
Marvel Worldwide Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company.
Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's 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.
Casper in comics from Marvel[]
- America's Best TV Comics (1967) - Comic promoting ABC's Saturday Morning Cartoons.
- Casper (1995) - Comic adapting the 1995 theatrical Casper movie.
- Casper (1997) - 2 issue Casper comic series from Marvel Comics.
- Casper and Friends Magazine (1997) - 3 issue comic series from Marvel Comics featuring many of the Harvey characters.
America's Best TV Comics (1967)[]
Casper (1995 Movie)[]
Casper (1997)[]
Casper and Friends Magazine (1997)[]
References[]
Further reading[]
- All in Color for a Dime by Dick Lupoff & Don Thompson. ISBN 0-87341-498-5.
- Jack Kirby: The TCJ Interviews, Milo George, ed. (Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 2001). ISBN 1-56097-434-6.
- Marvel Comics: the Untold Story by Sean Howe. First ed. New York: Harper, 2012. 485 pp. ISBN 978-0-06-199210-0.
- Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones (Basic Books, 2004). trade paperback ISBN 0-465-03657-0.
- The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1 by James Steranko. ISBN 0-517-50188-0.
External links[]
- Official website
- Vassallo, Michael J. (2005). "A Timely Talk with Allen Bellman". Comicartville.com. p. 2. Archived from the original on November 25, 2009. http://www.comicartville.com/bellman.htm..