Creative Writing

Diego Alejandro Cabrera Zúñiga. A01375114.
CREATIVE WRITING

Why Reading Marvel Comics?

Its Origins and Modern Times

Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books and related media. Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvel's modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others.

Marvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, such teams as theAvengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans and the X-Men, and antagonists such as Doctor Doom, The Enchantress, Green Goblin, Ultron,Doctor Octopus, Thanos, Magneto and Loki. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities.
Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. In 1961, writer-editor Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics by introducing superheroes designed to appeal to more all-ages readers than the predominantly child audiences of the medium.

Since the 1940´s, Marvel has published some comics. Its origins comes from World War II and the representation of Captain America as a national symbol gave hope to the American people in those times of pain and desperation. Marvel´s popularity and fans increased and comics´ selling went up as the Company was about to get betterReading Marvel Comics is such an amazing way to start a whole new world of Science-fiction. Since The Walt Disney Corporations announced a deal to acquire Marvel Comics' parent corporation the Enterprise has flourished and its rating has amazingly increased. Now, Marvel expanded the Corporation in the pursuit of giving more opportunities of job. Nothing will replace the act of buying a comic, it´s very marvelous the way in which people go to the Comic Stores and they may appreciate the variety of Comics. It was something special.

DC Comics is also part of this universe of Superheroes but I think Marvel is better in some aspects. At first, Marvel is a bit more realistic. The fundamental difference in Marvel vs. DC would be how Marvel characters are more flawed and "less superhuman" than their DC counterparts. And finally, I think Marvel is more magical and special as we can see it in Marvel Films.

Marvel is not Science-fiction at all, it´s a way to represent how a real super-hero would look like if they were real and the way they´re represented in the movies is really MARVELOUS. I think we should all read Marvel comics and start learning new things from this universe, furthermore, they all have really good stories and the background from which the story was written, World War II, show us the creativity of writers such as Stan Lee in their old days.