Curated playlist
Marvel Comics businesspeople
- Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Marvel's Tony Stark was created in 1963 to be the quintessential capitalist. Stan Lee based him on Howard Hughes.
- Iron ManIron Man, the armored Marvel Comics hero, first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39, released in December 1962 with a March 1963 cover date. His creator, Stan Lee, had set himself an awkward assignment during the Vietnam War. His readers…
- Doctor DoomDoctor Doom is a comic book villain who answers to no court outside his own country. He rules the fictional eastern European nation of Latveria, and his status as head of state has historically shielded him from prosecution for crimes…
- Iron Fist (character)Iron Fist is a Marvel Comics superhero whose hidden home city appears on Earth only once every 10 years. His full name is Daniel Thomas Rand-K'ai, though readers know him as Danny Rand. He is a martial artist who can gather his chi into a…
- Electro (Marvel Comics)Electro, the Marvel Comics supervillain who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #9 in February 1964, can throw bolts of roughly 100,000 volts from his fingertips. Yet he is better known for losing than for winning. Stan Lee and Steve…
- J. Jonah JamesonJ. Jonah Jameson is the flattop-haired, cigar-smoking newspaper boss of Marvel Comics, and he first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man issue #1, dated March 1963. Writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko created him. With his moustache and…
- Sebastian Shaw (character)Sebastian Shaw, a supervillain in Marvel Comics, once escaped a prison cell by hitting himself with a book for eight hours straight. The cell had been built to soak up kinetic energy, so pounding on its walls would have been pointless.…
- Warren Worthington IIIWarren Kenneth Worthington III first learns what he is at Phillips Exeter Academy, when feathered wings begin to grow from his shoulder blades. He believes at first that he is a freak, a mistake of nature. Then a fire breaks out in his…
- Kingpin (character)The Kingpin first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #50, cover-dated July 1967, at a moment when Peter Parker had quit being Spider-Man. Stan Lee had a particular idea for the new villain. He wanted a man who ran organized crime the way a…
- Tombstone (character)Tombstone is a Marvel Comics crime boss whose face was built to resemble the grave marker he is named after. Writer Gerry Conway chose the name first. He then gave the character albinism and squared-off features so the finished drawing…
- Moon KnightMoon Knight is a Marvel Comics superhero who has died and come back more than once. His own stories have argued for decades about whether the god who revived him is real. He debuted in Werewolf by Night #32, published in August 1975. Since…