Marvel Comics is an American comic book line and also now as well make movies. Marvel’s best-known characters in comics include the Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Daredevil, Thor, Captain America, and X-Men. Most of Marvel’s fictional characters reside in the Marvel Universe.
Since the 1960s, it has been one of the largest American comics companies, along with DC Comics. Located in New York City, Marvel has been successively headquartered in the McGraw-Hill Building on West 42nd Street.
Marvel Comics was founded by established pulp-magazine publisher Martin Goodman in 1939 when the company was under the name Timely Comics. Its first publication was Marvel Comics #1 in 1939, featuring the second appearance of Carl Burgos’ android superhero, the Human Torch, and the first generally available appearance of Bill Everett’s mutant anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner.
The company’s first editor, the writer-artist Joe Simon, teamed with soon-to-be industry legend Jack Kirby to create one of the first patriotically themed superheroes, Captain America, in Captain America Comics #1. It, too, proved a major sales hit.
While no other Timely character would be as successful as these “big three”, some notable heroes, many continuing to appear in modern-day, appearances and flashbacks include the Whizzer, Miss America, the Destroyer, the original Vision, and Paul Gustavson’s Angel. Timely also published one of humor cartoonist Basil Wolverton’s best-known features, Powerhouse Pepper.
Dc
DC Comics is known as the king of all comic books. It has been the leader in the industry since its start many years ago. They paved their way with their styles and strategies and many other comics book industries in America followed them such as their rival Marvel Comics. The history of DC Comics has gone on to be a huge part of American culture.
DC Comics were able to survive and continue to thrive even when there were times when they had gone through declining periods when comics books were losing interest. However, today they proved to be one of the most successful stories in the comic book industry and are a subsidiary of the Warner Brothers Entertainment and are also part of Time Warner too.The DC Comics made a name for themselves in 1939 as they were then founded by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. During that time its company was known as National Allied Publications. The initials for the DC Comic books were from taken from the Detective Comic series.
With that series came the rise of Batman. There was another line of comic books, known as Action Comics, which featured a new super hero named Superman. Over the years these two super heroes became quite popular and to this day they are still two of the most popular characters to ever appear in comic books and went on to spark the way for many other super heroes.
During 1965 the industry introduced a new super hero by the name of Flash. This character was created many years before but was brought back and updated to be placed in more popular times. This time more emotional and personal compelling stories were used along with some better storyboards and artwork which helped to liven up the character. The company did the same with all the other characters too, which included batman and superman. Then shortly afterwards the Justice League society and the Justice League of America was created. There have been 115 DC superheroes and 29 films based on DC Comics.
Difference
The main difference between DC and marvel comics is that Marvel characters are likely to come from relatively ordinary backgrounds than DC characters. Also DC is more fantasy based that Marvel as places such as Gotham are not real whereas in Marvel's comics lots of things are based in New York. Another difference is that Marvel on average makes more money for films than DC. Marvel has made a lot more in the box office than DC. Lastly Marvel comics have more mainstream superheroes who have been given their own film, however DC often depend on Superman and Batman.
