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15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

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Marvel Comics: 15 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know

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February 16, 2017
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Mention Marvel Comics and the first things that spring to mind are Stan Lee, Spider-Man, Avengers and comic book superheroes.

But before they became a source of superhero movie blockbusters, the team behind the empire were lowly writers, artists and stoners developing new creations on a month-to-month basis under the name ‘Timely Comics’. Some of those creations are now world-renown, while others are best left forgotten.

We’ve compiled a list of interesting facts about our beloved Marvel Comics.

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1. Michael Jackson wanted to be Spider-Man

In the early 1990s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider-Man in his own produced movie.

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“I knew Michael Jackson. And with the things he discussed with me, I felt he wanted to be Spider-Man. That was the character that interested him,” said Stan Lee in an interview with Moviefone. “I think he’d have been good. I think he’d have been very good. But I must say that Tobey Maguire was wonderful.”

2. Marvel Comics once published an artist’s resignation letter

Dave Cockrum, a marvel artist, resigned from Marvel in 1979, but strangely found his resignation letter making it into Iron Man No. 127.

Tony Stark’s butler, Jarvis, resigns after being abused by an angry Stark. The letter was a word for word copy of Cockrum’s, with only the word Marvel changed to Avengers.

A mistake? Perhaps.

Nobody knows for sure how this managed to make its way into one of the world’s most popular comic books.

Anthony Stark, I am leaving because this is no longer the team-spirited “one big happy family” I once loved working for. Over the past year or so I have watched Avengers’ morale disintegrate to the point that, rather than being a team or a family, it is now a large collection of unhappy individuals simmering in their own personal stew of repressed anger, resentment and frustration. I have seen a lot of my friends silently enduring unfair, malicious or vindictive treatment.

My personal grievances are relatively slight by comparison to some, but I don’t intend to silently endure. I’ve watched the Avengers be disbanded, uprooted and shuffled around. I’ve become firmly convinced that this was done with the idea of “showing the hired help who’s Boss”.

I don’t intend to wait around to see what’s next.

Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

3. Darth Vader was inspired by Marvel Comics’ Doctor Doom

George Lucas is a fanboy and was influenced to some degree by the Marvel Comics’ Doctor Doom for his Darth Vader’s incarnation.

4. Marvel Comics trademarked the word “zombies”

After releasing Tale of the Zombie in 1973, Marvel trademarked the term ‘zombie’ for use in their comic books.

They held the trademark until 1996 when they realised the trademark was almost impossible to enforce.

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5. Damage Control

In the Marvel Comics universe, a fictional company called Damage Control specialises in cleaning up the mess that superheroes and supervillains leave behind.

Someone should let Superman know about this.

6. Deadpool is a spoof of Deathstroke

Marvel’s Deadpool, Wade Wilson, was originally created as a spoof of DC’s Deathstroke, Slade Wilson.

“Wade Wilson” was an inside-joke to being “related” to “Slade Wilson”.

Deadpool was later re-imagined as a psychotic smartass anti-hero.

7. Nick Fury was designed to resemble Samuel L. Jackson

The re-imagined Nick Fury bears a striking resemblance to Samuel L. Jackson.

Although Jackson is well known for playing Nick Fury in the Avengers movies, this incarnation of Fury pre-dates the film by several years.

It wasn’t until Samuel himself saw his resemblance in the comic by chance that he contacted his lawyer and Marvel to secure his role in the movies.

8. Amalgam Comics

Amalgam Comics was a publishing imprint shared by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters into new ones.

Batman and Wolverine became the Amalgam character Dark Claw.

Superman and Captain America’s amalgamation was Super-Soldier.

You could also find characters like Iron Lantern and Shatterstarfire in the mix.

Marvel Comics

9. Spider-Pig

“Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No, he can’t, he’s a pig, Look out, he is a Spider-Pig!”

Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) is a fictional Marvel Comics character, an anthropomorphic funny animal parody of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man, created by Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong in 1983.

Who knew he was real?

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10. Throg, Thor as a frog

Wielding the mighty Frogjolnir, Simon Walterson is Throg.

Although he physically resembles the amphibian form that Thor was once trapped in, Throg is a different being who shares a portion of the Thunder God’s powers.

Why?

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11. Venom was created by a fan

Venom was conceived of by a Marvel Comics reader named Randy Schueller. Marvel purchased the idea for $220.00 after they sent Schueller a letter acknowledging Marvel’s desire to acquire the idea from him.

Ummm…

12. No Werewolves

Marvel Comics was forbidden to use werewolves in their comics by the Comics Code Authority.

The writers had to come up with clever ways of including the classic villain archetype.

For X-Men No. 60 (1969), Roy Thomas and Neal Adams created Sauron, a were–pterodactyl, to get around the code.

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13. Mario Puzo, the Godfather author, tried to write for Marvel Comics

Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather, found writing comics too difficult.

He asked Stan Lee if he could try to write a comic script. Lee agreed but Puzo found it too difficult.

Lee recounts in his autobiography that Puzo told him: “I could write a novel in the time it would take me to figure this damn thing out.”

He went on to write some of the best-selling novels of all time. Oh, and he also wrote the screenplay for the Superman movie.

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14. Luke Cage was the first black superhero with his own comic

Marvel was the first comic company to give a black superhero his own comic book.

Luke Cage made his first appearance in Luke Cage: Hero for Hire No. 1 in June 1972.

15. New ‘Se’X-Men #118 and the hidden sex messages

Some readers noticed the word SEX being hidden in the background art of Ethan Van Sciver’s New X-Men #118, but only after an article in Wizard the general audience took a closer look and in fact the secret message has been discovered 18 times.

That’s nearly nearly one “SEX” per page.

See if you can spot the word hidden in the panels below:

15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Marvel Comics

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Comments 10

  1. Byron Hendricks says:
    7 years ago

    I knew about 10 lol

    Reply
  2. cc says:
    2 years ago

    i love marvel

    Reply
  3. Mica says:
    1 year ago

    I’m making a quiz about MARVEL, and this website really helped. I already knew like 9 of them, though. Now, literally nobody got over an 85 % on my test. Thanks!

    Reply
  4. Sourav Sahu says:
    1 year ago

    Amazing and wonderful post friend.The 11th comment was quite interesting … I didn’t expect some of the characters to be made by fans too

    Reply
  5. STAN J LEE says:
    12 months ago

    i HATE MARVEL

    Reply
  6. JaBu says:
    10 months ago

    Man-Bat was not an Amalgam character, it was a DC character created in 1970. The Amalgam character was Bat-Thing.

    Reply
  7. izak rae says:
    5 months ago

    im also making a marvel quiz

    Reply
  8. lazyfan says:
    1 month ago

    i found the “word” in the panels, i also knew most of these as i am 12 and have nothing else to do lol

    Reply
  9. lazyfan says:
    1 month ago

    i found the “word” in the panels, i also knew most of these as i am 12 and have nothing else to do lol tell me if deadpool may have been an amalgam character,spideyxslade

    Reply
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