Curated playlist
Marvel Comics military personnel
- Wolverine (character)Wolverine, the Marvel Comics superhero, shares his everyday name with a mountain. Writer Chris Claremont took the name Logan from Canada's Mount Logan for an issue of X-Men in 1977. He liked the idea of the tallest mountain naming the…
- Professor XProfessor X, whose full name is Charles Francis Xavier, first appeared in The X-Men #1, dated September 1963. Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby created him for Marvel Comics, and Kirby is also credited as co-writer. Lee said the…
- Captain AmericaCaptain America Comics #1 reached newsstands on the 20th of December 1940, carrying a cover date of March 1941. Its cover showed the hero punching Adolf Hitler. That hero, Captain America, was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Timely…
- Sabretooth (character)Sabretooth, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is believed to be Victor Creed, makes a point of finding Wolverine on his birthday. Writer Chris Claremont described the ritual in his own words. On every one of his birthdays, he said,…
- Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)Spider-Woman, the Marvel Comics heroine whose civilian name is Jessica Drew, began as a legal precaution. In 1978, Marvel's publisher Stan Lee explained that he feared a rival company might publish its own book called Spider-Woman and then…
- PunisherIn 2011, an editor at Marvel Comics revealed that the Punisher had killed 48,502 people on the page since the mid-1970s. That body count belongs to a character whom writer Gerry Conway meant as a second-tier figure. Conway has said the…
- Flash ThompsonEugene "Flash" Thompson first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15, published in August 1962 by Marvel Comics. Writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko introduced him in the very issue that launched Spider-Man. Flash starts out as the star of his…
- Lizard (character)In The Amazing Spider-Man #6, published in November 1963, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the Lizard. He is a Marvel Comics monster whose human side is a scientist named Dr. Curtis Connors, known as Curt. Connors wanted one thing. He…
- Carol DanversCarol Danvers first appears in March 1968, in the pages of Marvel Super-Heroes #13, as an officer in the United States Air Force. She is the security chief of a restricted military base, and writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan give her…
- DeadpoolDeadpool, the masked mercenary of Marvel Comics, once ended a storyline by breaking out of his own book and into the real world. There he confronted the writers and artists who were making the comic, and he turned to the reader with a…
- U.S. AgentU.S. Agent, the Marvel Comics hero whose real name is John Walker, once climbed the Washington Monument to stop a terrorist. The terrorist, known as Warhead, threatened to set off a nuclear weapon in Washington, D.C. from the top of the…
- Bucky BarnesBucky Barnes is a Marvel Comics hero whose fans once turned his death into a rule of the genre. The saying went that in comics, "No one stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben." For many years, Bucky was the first name on that…
- 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…