Curated playlist
Marvel Comics titles
- Star Wars (2015 comic book)Luke Skywalker searches Obi-Wan Kenobi's abandoned house on Tatooine in Marvel's 2015 Star Wars comic.
- Street Fighter (Malibu Comics)Malibu's Street Fighter comic ended after three issues. Its last page blamed complications with Capcom.
- Wonder ManWonder Man, whose real name is Simon Williams, died in the very comic book that introduced him. That issue was The Avengers #9, cover-dated October 1964 and published by Marvel Comics. Writer Stan Lee created him with artists Don Heck and…
- 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…
- Mary Jane WatsonMary Jane Watson, the Marvel Comics character, makes her most famous entrance on the last page of The Amazing Spider-Man #42, published in November 1966. Peter Parker finally meets her there, and he is stunned by her beauty. She greets him…
- Flash GordonGeorge Lucas made Star Wars after he could not get film rights to Flash Gordon. Producer Dino De Laurentiis refused.
- Storm (Marvel Comics)Storm, the Marvel Comics hero Ororo Munroe, appears on 97 of the 182 covers of Chris Claremont's run on the X-Men. No other character was pictured on covers as often during those years. She also fills 4,155 panels across that stretch,…
- X-MenThe X-Men comic was cancelled in 1970 after seven years of weak sales. A new team in 1975 turned it into a hit.
- Gambit (Marvel Comics)Remy LeBeau, known to readers as Gambit, is a Cajun thief from New Orleans who became one of Marvel Comics' X-Men. Writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee created him. When he joined the team, few of his new colleagues trusted him, and…
- Blade (character)Blade, the vampire hunter of Marvel Comics, made his debut in The Tomb of Dracula #10, with a cover date of July 1973. He was only a supporting character there, created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan. Shortly afterward he…
- Pizzazz (magazine)Pizzazz, a Marvel teen magazine, printed the first original Star Wars stories. They appeared in 1977.
- Star Wars (1977 comic book)Marvel's Star Wars comic went on sale before the movie opened. Lucasfilm got no royalties until sales passed 100,000.
- Black Cat (Marvel Comics)Black Cat, the thief whose real name is Felicia Hardy, first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #194 in July 1979, yet she was never meant for that comic. Her creators had a different hero's book in mind when they dreamed her up. She…
- 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…