Posted : March 2014
Author : the admin
Here are some facts about Marvel Comics that you might not have known. Enjoy reading them...
1. Darth Vader was
inspired by Marvels Dr. Doom.
2. Stan Lee who
worked for Marvel as a writer for hire sued Marvel in 2005 because he was hurt
by Marvel Comics decision to keep profits from him over his 60 years with the
company
3. In the early
1990s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play
Spider Man in his own produced movie.
4. Due to strange
laws in USA,
importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that dont. Marvel
successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are
mutants and therefore should be exempt from such higher tax.
5. There was a 1995
issue of Punisher called The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe in which he
killed every single Marvel superhero and villain, including himself.
6. Venom, the
Spider-Man villain was a fan-based concept that Marvel bought for 220 dollars.
7. During the production
of the Avengers movie, they couldn’t get the Hulks roar to sound just right so
they decided to supplement it with recordings of Lou Ferrigno bellowing as the
original Hulk.
8. There is a
Marvel super hero called Squirrel Girl, who once beat Doctor Doom by flooding
his aircraft with a swarm of squirrels.
9. In 2002, a
4-year-old boy suffering from hearing loss didn’t want to wear a hearing aid
because Super heroes don’t. To get him to wear his hearing aids, Marvel Comics
created a super hero with a hearing aid called Blue Ear.
10. Marvel has
a superhero named Throg. He is a frog that has the power of Thor and is in a
superhero group called the Pet Avengers.
11. In 1983,
Marvel published a comic about Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Ham. He was a
Spider-Pig named Peter-Porker.
12. In 1996,
Marvel and DC comics created Amalgam Comics that joined their two universes
together, thus resulting in characters such as Darkclaw BatmanWolverine, Super
Soldier SupermanCaptain America,
and Iron Lantern Green LanternIron Man.
13. In the
1970′s, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel Comics to release the
strangest Spiderman comic that discouraged teens from having unprotected sex.
14. Apart from
writing for Marvel, Stan Lee also wrote 15 DC comics, reimagined popular
superheroes like Batman and Superman.
15. When the
character of Nick Fury was re-introduced into the Ultimate Marvel comics, he
was redesigned to resemble Samuel L Jackson, without the actors permission to
use his image. It wasn’t until Samuel himself saw his resemblance in the comic
that he contacted Marvel to secure a role in any future Marvel movies.
16. Marvels
Deadpool Wade Wilson was originally created as a spoof of DC’s Deathstroke
Slade Wilson.
17. Mr.
Immortal is a Marvel character with no special powers except immortality. He
has been killed in ways including shot, suffocated, stabbed, drowned, crushed,
starved, dehydrated, exploded, poisoned, decapitated, irradiated and
incinerated.
18. There is a
fictional company in the Marvel universe called Damage Control. It specializes
in cleaning up the mess that superheroes and super villains leave behind.
19. The reason
Spider-Man wasn’t a part of the Avengers movie is because Marvel sold the
rights to Sony.
20. Spider-man
married Mary Jane in 1987, for which Marvel held a publicity event featuring
actors dressed like Spider-Man and Mary Jane getting married in Shea Stadium
21. Eminem is
a character in the Marvel universe.
22. From 1975
to 1996, Marvel had trademarked the word, zombies. Perhaps understanding that
this trademark wasnt enforceable, in 1996 they registered Marvel Zombies.
23. Deadpool
has regularly broken the fourth wall. He knew that he was in comic books. This
was due to his Comic Awareness, which was a pun about Captain Marvels Cosmic
Awareness.
24. Despite
all the Gods that roam the universe, Marvel Universe lived under one true God
called One-Above-All.
25. Iron Man
was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero that no one should like
and force people to like him.
26. In 2003,
Marvel Comics announced it was planning to publish a five-part series entitled Di
Another Day featuring a resurrected Diana The Princess of Wales, as a mutant
with superpowers.
27. Marvel created
a character named Irene Adler after the Sherlock Holmes character, who was
supposed to be Mystiques lover. Marvel wasn’t allowed to portray a gay
relationship, so they made them to be friends, but later announced that they
were a couple.
28. And here’s
a sneak peak of Bishop from X-MEN: Days of Future Past.
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