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Marvel Comics History and Key Characters

The document provides a brief history of Marvel Comics and summaries of some of their earliest and most famous superhero characters created by Stan Lee. It notes that Marvel Comics was founded in 1933 and that Stan Lee served in WWII before co-creating iconic characters like the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spider-Man, and Captain America in the early 1960s, giving each of them unique origins and superpowers through exposure to radiation or experimental serums.

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Marvel Comics History and Key Characters

The document provides a brief history of Marvel Comics and summaries of some of their earliest and most famous superhero characters created by Stan Lee. It notes that Marvel Comics was founded in 1933 and that Stan Lee served in WWII before co-creating iconic characters like the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spider-Man, and Captain America in the early 1960s, giving each of them unique origins and superpowers through exposure to radiation or experimental serums.

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By:Derek Althiser

History
• Founded by Martin
Goodman in 1933
• First comic released
in Oct of 1939
Stan Lee
• Stanley Lieber
• Server for 4 years in
WWII,
• Born December
28,1922, in NYC
Fantastic Four
• First debuted in
November 1961
• Stan Lee and Jack
Kirby co-creators
• superpowers gained
after being exposed to
cosmic rays
• The Human Torch,Mr.
Fantastic, The Thing,
The Invisible Woman
Hulk
• Stan Lee Jack Kirby
• May 1962 first comic
released
• Dr. Bruce Banner
exposed to a blast from
a gamma bomb
transforms into the Hulk
• When angered Banner
becomes the hulk
Spider Man
• Stan Lee and Steve
Ditko
• August 1962 debuted
• Peter is bitten by a
radio active spider witch
gives him his powers
• In the original comic his
web was man made by
him
Captain America
• First comic appeared in
march 1941
• Joe Simon and Jack
Kirby
• Steve Rogers a sickly
young man who was
enhanced to the peak of
human perfection by an
experimental serum in
order to aid the US war
efforts has the alter ego
of Captain America

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