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Marvel Comics Company 1. Important historical facts2. Marvel’s Universes3. Marvel’s best-know characters4. Marvel’s characters organizations5. Important things/ objects in Marvel’s Comic Books6. Marvel’s creators7. Marvel’s movies and cartoons

A little bit of history

Founded in 1939 as Timely Comics(founder Martin Goodman)

Early 1950s change in Atlas Comics

In 1961 transformation in Marvel Comics Company

In 2009 The Walt Disney Company aquired all Marvel’s legacy for $4.42 billion

Marvel’s Universes

Words „Marvel’s Universe” containes:• all fictional and non-discovered places,• Many of nonrealistic and parallel worlds, • all characters (superheroes and normal

people),• and also a lot of technical innovations

created in comic books.

Marvel’s Universes

Main universes (Earth)Alternative universes

(alternative versions of world)Parallel universesPocket universes

(mythical and mystical – Olympus, Asgard)

Main of main universes

Earth-616 (Main planet, our Earth)Alias: Prime Earth, Earth One

Earth-616 [1939]

Earth-1610 [2000]

On this planet events goesdiffrentelly, but present day

are similar. – alternative universe

Ancient Atlantis and Lemuria war

Aliens landed in 18th century

Big war Humans vs Mutants

Asgardia [1962]pocket universe

Home of Norse mythological God, connected with Earth-616. Home of Odin, Thor and Loki.

Marvel’s CharactersSpider-Man (Peter Parker, Earth-616)Height: 1.80 m

Weight: 111 kg, 76 kg as Peter Parker

First appearance: 1962

Clones of Spider-Man[parallel and alternative

worlds]

Scarlet Spider

Clones of Spider-Man

Robotical Spider-Man made by Tony

Stark (Iron Man)

Black Spider

HulkBruce Robert

Bunner

Height: 1.78 m as Bunner, 2.6 m as

Hulk

Weight: 58 kg as Bunner, 522 kg as

Hulk

First appearance: 1962

Hulk’s Family

She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]

Cousin of Hulk [Bruce Banner]

Red She-Hulk [Betty Ross-Banner] Love of live and

wife of Bruce Banner

Hulk’s Family

Red Hulk [Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross] the biggest hulk’s

enemy and father of Bruce Banner’s wife

Capitan America

Steven Rodgers, U.S. Army soldier, first mission: Second

World War

Height: 1.90 mWeight: 109 kg

Thor

Thor OdinsonSon od Odin,

Asgardianprince and

king

„God of Thunder”Travel to Earth by

Bifrost

Loki Laufeyson

Thor’s step-brother and his the

biggest enemy. His real father is Laufey king of Frost Giants of

Jotunheim

Iron Man [Anthony „Tony” Stark]

Billioner of Stark’s fortune, very

intelligent man, playboy, atheist and superhero

Height: 1.90 mWeight: 102 kg

Collecion of Iron Man’s Armour

Deadpool

Wade Winston Wilson

Former U.S. Army soldier,

Height: 1.85 m

Weight: 95 kg

Funny Fact: Deadpool, unlike most characters, is aware that he is in a comic book and able to

express his thoughts via captions.

Wolverine

James Logan HowlettMan with claws from

bonesImmortal Man, born in

1880 in Canada

Lord of Wolvs

Weapon X (adamentium skeleton)

Bad guys – Red Skull

Johann ShmidtNazis, Head of Hydra

Fight with Capitan America

Thanos

Dark Space Invader,Cosmic Titan, One of the

most powerfull villans

Organizations – X-Men

This organization was founded by profesor Charles Xavier to found and conected all Mutants – people

with some special abilities

The head of X-Men was at first

Wolverine [man who has skeleton from adamentium and

claws in hands] and next Cyclop [man with laser in his

eyes.

Fantastic Four

SuperHero organization with:

Leader Reed Richards – Mister Fantastic

Abilities: elastic body like a gum

Picture of abilities Mr Fantastic

Human Torch

Jonathan Lowell Spencer StormSex On Fire!

Playboy who burns!

Human Torch in flames

Invisible Woman

Susan Storm like most woman – first she is everywhere, in the

end she is unattainable and

unseen

Human Torch older sister

Thing

Benjamin Jacob GrimmHuman-Rock

He has no apparent neck. He has only

four fingers (including the

thumb) on each hand and four toes

on each foot.

S.H.I.E.L.D.First shortcut: Supreme

Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-enforcement

Division

Present: Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage

Logistics Directorate

Founded to combat technologically advanced threats on world security

(specifically the menace of Hydra), throughout the years,

remained on the front lines fighting terrorism as an

international intelligence agency.

Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nick FuryFormer U.S. Army

soldier, CIA Agent,

Comandos

Founder of Avengers Project

The Avengers

Squad of Avengers

Superheroes in Avengers comic series always occured in

different positions.

The most popular configuration is: Iron Man, Hulk, Thor,

Spider-Man, Wolverine and Capitan America + Nick

Fury, Hawkeye and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)

from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Transformers Autobots (good) vs Decepticons (bad)

Optimus Prime – Megatron

Tesseract Cube

Tesseract has no limited power. It is source of huge energy from alternative world.

Iron Man has alive because of fragment of Tesseract core.

Allspark from Transformers

It’s kind of „cube of live” for Autobots and Decepticons.

Stan LeeHe is inventor and creator of many characters in Marvel

universe. He is 90.He draw Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four.

If You thing that all Marvel characters are from USA You are wrong!

Capitan BritainBrian Braddock

Magneto!

Max EisenhardtLeader of bad Mutants

Best friend and biggest enemy of Xavier

He attract every kind of metalHe is Jewish and was born in

Auschwitz.He probably is a Pole!

He had wife Magda and daughter Anya.

Marvel MoviesMarvel’s Univers contains Movies is

called Earth-199999Films with Marvel’s Superheroes:

HulkIron Man

Fantastic FourDareDevil

ThorPunisher

Capitan AmericaSpider-ManGhost RiderAvengers

The Avengers (2012)

What films are next?

"Iron Man 3" – 3th May 2013"Thor 2" – 15th November 2013

"Captain America 2" – 4th April 2014 roku„Guardians of the Galaxy” – 16th May 2014

Cartoons

The Ultimate Spider-Man

Spectacular Spider-Man

The Avengers

Thor vs Hercules

Rocket Racoon

Marvelous presentasion, isn’t it?

Thank, You!