¿am I Marvel Fan?| Marvel Comics Story

In the 50s the company almost went bankrupt as a result of the economic and social damage left by the Second World War, by that time it was called Atlas Comics and almost closed its doors forever. It was in 1960 that the industry retook the genre of superheroes that had revived thanks to the rival, DC Comics. DC Comics.

And when did Stan Lee appear Stan Lee?

In the sixties, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Fantastic 4 taking inspiration from their rival’s success. The comic was a resounding success that revitalized the company giving way to the creation of the famous Spiderman.

It was in the 70's when "The House of Ideas" wanted to buy DC Comics, but they did not make it. They also appeared in the hands of screenwriters Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne, the popular X-Men which was the biggest success of the company at that time.

The success of Marvel in the 80s

By then, the editor who revolutionized the company was Jim Shooter, healing many errors in the procedures that the company executed. In 1981 he took over the De Patie-Freleng Enterprise animation studio he had created years before for the Looney Tunes. Soon the company was renamed Marvel Productions, it was there that they began to produce animated series for television under the name of Marvel. But shortly after it was sold to New World Entertainment in 1986, three years later it was sold again to Revlon's owner, Ronald Perelman, who added Marvel to the New York stock market and generated a valuable increase in the number of titles in the company. For example, part of that process is that Marvel Productions sold its television catalogue to Saban Entertainment, later acquired by Disney in 2001.

Fanart made by me of Thanos drawn this year before Infinity War, in the middle is an illustration of Ultimate Spiderman and on the right side another Wolverine fanart of 2013

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¿Did success follow in the 90s??

Marvel had great benefits in that decade and the genre of comics was at its point of fame in both North America and Europe. They were years in which successes like Spiderman or X-men were revived, and in the artistic field several series and crossover were launched.

I was born with Marvel

In 1994 I was being born in the center of the Venezuelan capital, my family was celebrating with drinks in hand my birth and a few years later I would be the one who would celebrate having known television and with it, the content of Marvel Entertaiment. I remember that in 1998 I already enjoyed the animated series of Spiderman and the X-Men in Fox Kids every afternoon and then with the arrival of the new millennium I saw my first Marvel film in the cinema: The X-Men, starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) ( Hugh Jackman)