In time, the company’s flagship title became its name, and Marvel Comics became synonymous with superheroes across the globe.
In 1939, pulp-magazine publisher Martin Goodman decided to give the new medium of comic books a shot.
Its first publication was a series called Marvel Comics.
Although Marvel became one of the two dominant forces in comics by the mid-1960s, it took another 20 years before Marvel ever got a movie into theaters, and then almost 20 more years before those adaptations even came close to capturing the energy of literary Marvel Universe.