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Marvel Comics superheroes

  • Jean GreyJean Grey is a Marvel Comics character who has died and returned many times. Her tie to the cosmic force that defines her keeps being rewritten. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created her, and she first appeared in The X-Men #1 in September 1963.…
  • Venom (character)Venom, the alien symbiote of Marvel Comics, began as a $220 purchase. In 1982, a Marvel reader from Norridge, Illinois, named Randy Schueller received a letter from Jim Shooter, the company's editor-in-chief. The letter said Marvel liked…
  • HulkThe Hulk is a Marvel Comics superhero who lives as two people in one body, and the two typically resent each other. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him, and he first appeared in the debut issue of The Incredible Hulk in May 1962. One half…
  • Luke CageLuke Cage, the Marvel Comics hero born Carl Lucas, once chased the supervillain Doctor Doom over a debt of $200. That story ran in Hero for Hire #9 in 1973. Doom was one of Marvel's most imposing villains, and Cage wanted his money. Most…
  • Quicksilver (Marvel Comics)Quicksilver, the Marvel Comics speedster whose real name is Pietro Django Maximoff, first appeared in The X-Men #4, dated March 1964. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him. He can move and think at extreme speeds, and that second half of the…
  • 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…
  • Ghost RiderGhost Rider is a Marvel Comics character whose first supernatural form was a stunt motorcyclist named Johnny Blaze. Blaze makes a desperate trade. To save the life of his foster father, he agrees to give his soul to a being called "Satan."…
  • 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…
  • Star-LordStar-Lord, whose full name is Peter Jason Quill, made his debut in Marvel Preview #4 in January 1976. That magazine was printed in black and white, not in the color comic format most readers knew. The character was created by writer Steve…
  • Cloak and Dagger (characters)Cloak and Dagger are a Marvel Comics superhero duo, and their creator says they arrived in his mind already finished. Writer Bill Mantlo had just visited Ellis Island. Afterward, he recalled, "They came in the night, when all was silent…
  • 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…

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