Marvel Legends
MARVEL® LEGENDS. More Marvel merchandise than even the House of Ideas ever imagined! From Marvel Legends action figures, to statues and busts of your favourite Marvel heroes. There is even Marvel Barbies now! Licensed merchandise based on Marvel Comics, NYSE: MVL (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc., and Marvel Enterprises, Inc.) sometimes called by the nickname The House of Ideas, is an American comic book company.
Its best-known comics include Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Daredevil, Captain America, and X-Men. Since the 1960s, it has been one of the two largest American comics companies, along with DC Comics. Marvel Comics focuses mainly on mutants or genetically altered humans or animals.
Marvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, the X-Men (notably Wolverine), Daredevil, the Punisher, Ghost Rider, and others. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in one single reality known as the Marvel Universe.
The comic-book arm of the company started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, with the launching of Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and others. Marvel has since become the largest American comic book publisher over longtime competitor DC Comics.
On August 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company announced a deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock.
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