Marvel Comics - Simple English Wikipedia

# Marvel Comics

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Marvel Comics is a company that makes "superhero" comic books. Its top competitor is DC Comics.

Some of their characters include:

- Spider-Man
- The Fantastic Four
- Namor the Sub-Mariner
- Captain America
- Hercules
- The Avengers
- The Incredible Hulk
- She-Hulk
- X-Men
- Mighty Thor
- Iron Man
- Doctor Strange
- Howard the Duck
- Nick Fury
- Silver Surfer
- The Punisher
- Daredevil
- Elektra

Marvel has also made films and cartoons about the characters, which has made them even more popular.

Marvel used to be a company called Timely Comics in the 1940s and then Atlas Comics in the 1950s. The first comic it sold as "Marvel Comics" was Fantastic Four #1 in November, 1961.

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