Marvel Comics has unveiled a new half-black, half-Latino Spider-Man, who replaces the recently killed-off Peter Parker.
He was the first editor of Timely Comics, which would later become Marvel Comics.
Marvel Comics fans, on the other hand, stared piteously at their consoles and mourned their lack of Wolverine.
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In the 1940s and 50s the equivalent panic was over Marvel comics endangering British youth with their violent pictures.
Our toddlers were climbing over my shoulders clambering towards the new toy and asking to see Barbie games and Marvel comics.
His nemesis, the multi-ringed Mandarin (better known in the Marvel comics as his archenemy), seems hellbent on hitting Tony where it hurts.
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Like the Expanding Man of the Marvel Comics, he can adapt himself to any contingency and re-position himself to suit any environment.
In August 1962, Marvel Comics introduced a new kind of superhero.
If NBC wants improved Olympics ratings, they should listen to Stan Lee, the legendary founder of Marvel Comics who recently suggested no, demanded that the Olympics add pole dancing.
The best news for Baum buffs, however, is a beautiful series of graphic novels lovingly adapted by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young from the original "canonical" works, currently being released by Marvel Comics.
In his long-running battles with the Nazi villain Red Skull and the Swiss anarchist Flag-Smasher, among others, the Captain fought with the trademark Marvel Comics blend of fantasy and all too human failing.
This is, of course, similar to the Marvel Comics creation of a film universe in which many of their characters interact and team up (as in The Avengers film this past summer).
Another reason Walters attributes to growing interest not only in the Dallas Comic Con, but in comic conventions in general, is the success of comic book films -- particularly ones based on Marvel comics.
Marvel made comic book history in 2011 by announcing all titles in the Ultimate Comics line would include codes for free digital copies on the Marvel Comics app, with unrivaled incentives for comic shop retailers.
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The games company recently founded a new wing, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, no doubt hoping to mimic the success of Marvel Comics, which has scored box office hits with independently-produced pictures including Iron Man, Thor and Avengers.
The series -- about a group of space explorers given various superpowers after being hit by cosmic rays -- began a new era for Marvel Comics, signaling the start of their wave of Silver Age characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Iron Man and many more.
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For those of us who are lavishly cobwebbed with time, however, the notion of yet another Spider-Man saga, this soon, does seem hasty, and I wish that the good people or, at any rate, the patent lawyers at Marvel Comics could at least have taken the opportunity to elide the intensely annoying hyphen in the title.
Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), will release its screen version of the decades-old origin of the Marvel Comics superhero, with Dr Pepper, a unit of Cadbury Schweppes (nyse: CSG - news - people ), along for the ride as a promotional partner.
In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.
Given that the Heat won the NBA championship last year, it's tempting to think that the secret behind Miami's success is a Marvel-Comics-type alliance of superheroes.
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Few mainstream audiences knew or cared that Batman is from DC Comics and Spider-Man is from Marvel.
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Kids will be able to watch videos, play games, use apps and read books from content partners including Andrews McMeel Publishing, Chronicle Books, DC Comics, Disney, HIT Entertainment, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Marvel, Nickelodeon, PBS, Rainbow and Sesame Workshop.
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To that end, Marvel has increased its presence at SXSW, this year announcing products such as the weekly Infinite Comics, which are specifically designed with the digital reader in mind, and Project Gamma, which adds audio to the digital reading experience.
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