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Marvel comics Continue This app is only available in the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Introducing the MARVEL COMICS app, a revolutionary new way to experience the Marvel universe on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, featuring the world's most popular super heroes! Download hundreds of comics featuring your favorite characters, including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine and more - on your mobile device at the touch of a button. You'll experience Marvel's greatest series and stories like never before, with your choice of guided view (animated, panel-by-panel way through comics), or using regular device controls to zoom in and pan your way through pages of sizzling history and amazing artwork! Each of your downloads can be protected and backed up when you use your account Marvel.Com, that is the next time you lose or upgrade your device you will find your comics waiting to read again! Not sure? Check out our free downloads now and find out why everyone can't stop talking about the MARVEL COMICS app! Take the Marvel universe with you anytime and anywhere! August 31, 2020 Version 3.11.11 New at 3.11.11- Now you can access archive books in the app. The Archive Books section of the app allows for unarchive selected books. New to 3.11: We present an updated library experience! Check out my books tab, explore your library, and tell us what you think. Switch between book groups and series. Click Refine to customize sorting and filtering or searching for a comic book in your library. Marvel is by far my favorite comic book company, but I can't figure out how to get out of the comic book until I'm in the middle of reading. If I want to check out something else around the site it makes me finish the comic book first. Then I usually just scroll through it and do what I wanted to do, then I have to re-open the comic book and find my place. I'm probably doing something wrong, but how can I get out of the comic book and get back to it later? Really enjoy this app and having my miracle comic collection digitally allows me to read almost anywhere. The app has many good options for viewing comics. I really like how it can zoom in on the page section to make it easy to read. Having a digital store also allows me to read some past/real comics I don't usually buy in a paper copy. I also find it useful to keep track of what I have or haven't read. It's also great for jumping into another issue to get a quick freshener on the back of the story. My collection easily approaches 500 comics digitally, and I notice more time lag to view your collection. In addition, there is no function built into the app to redeem your digital copy of your physical comic book. Finally, some of the old comics are not so clear or clean digital translations with some art and text a little fuzzy or difficult to read. In general, it is highly recommended for young and old fans. I've been reading comics for years. There was always a great joy going to the comic book store to pick up the latest comics that came out every week. But as I got older, got married, and running a business, I didn't have time to collect and pick up comics like I use. This Marvel Comics app is the best thing that happened to me. I was skeptical of this at first thinking it wouldn't be the same experience. But at the moment, I fell in love with this app. As someone who not only reads for great stories, with the app you can zoom in closely on detailed works of art that you may not always be able to see when reading physical comics. And best for me personally, easy access to all my comics on my iPhone or iPad. Whether I'm at work and need a quick break or travel. It's simple and easy to access my comics. Developer of the website App Support Privacy Policy This article is about a comic book company using this name since 1961. For an earlier comic book series, see Marvel Mystery Comics. The company that publishes comics and related Marvel ComicsParent companiesMarvel Entertainment, LLCStatusActiveFounded1939; 81 years ago (1939) (as timely comics)1947; 73 years ago (1947) (as a magazine management)1961; 59 years ago (1961) (as Marvel Comics)The founder of TheMartin GoodmanCountry-born United States Headquarters location is 135 W. 50th Street, New York CityDistributionDiamond Comic DistributorsHachette Customer Services. B. Cebulski (EIC)John Nee (Publisher)Stan Lee (Former EIC, Publisher, Writer)Publishing TypesComics/See. The List of Marvel ComicsFiction genres Superhero Science fiction Fantasy Action Imprintsimprint listOfficial websitewww.marvel.com Marvel Comics is the brand and the main imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. In 2009, the Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, the parent company of Marvel Worldwide. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman under the guidance of a number of corporations and prints, but is now known as Timely Comics, and by 1951, it usually became known as Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in 1961, when the company launched Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. The Marvel brand, which has been used for many years, has been solidified as the company's main brand. Marvel counts among its characters such famous superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Ant-Man, Wasp, Black Widow, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, The Phantom Rider, Blade, Daredevil, Punisher and Deadpool. Superhero teams exist, such as the Avengers, the X-Men, Four and Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as supervillain supervillains Dr. Doom, Magneto, Thanos, Loki, Green Goblin, Kingpin, Red Skull, Ultron, Mandarin, MODOC, Dr. Octopus, Kang, Dormammu, Annihilus and Galactus. Most fictional Marvel characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with most locations reflecting real places; many of the main characters are based in New York. In addition, Marvel has published several licensed properties from other companies. This includes Star Wars comics twice from 1977 to 1986 and again from 2015. History Timely Publishing Home Article: Timely Comics Marvel Comics #1 (October 1939), the first comic book from Marvel's predecessor Timely Comics. Cover: Frank R. Paul. The publisher of pulp and paper magazine Martin Goodman created a company later known as Marvel Comics called Timely Publications in 1939. Goodman, who began with Western Pulp in 1933, is expanding into a nascent, and by then, already very popular new comic book environment. Launching his new line from the offices of his existing company at 330 West 42nd Street, New York City, he officially served as editor,editor-in-chief and business manager, with Abraham Goodman (Martin's brother). Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics #1 (the cover dated October 1939), included the first appearance of superhero android Carl Burgos The Human Torch and the first performances of antihero Bill Everett Namor Sub- Mariner, among other features. This issue has been very successful; it and the second print the following month sold a combined of almost 900,000 copies. While its contents came from an external packager, Funnies, Inc., Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. The company's first true editor, writer-artist Joe Simon, along with artist Jack Kirby created one of the first patriotically themed superheroes, Captain America, in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). It also proved to be a hit, with sales of nearly one million. Goodman founded Timely Comics, Inc., starting with a comic book cover dating back to April 1941 or the spring of 1941. While no other timely character would have achieved the success of these three characters, some famous characters, many of whom continue to appear in contemporary performances and memoirs, include Whizzer, Miss America, Destroyer, Original Vision and Angel. Timely also published one of the most famous features of the humorous cartoonist Basil Woolverton, Powerhouse Pepper, as well as a line of children's comics featuring such characters as Super Rabbit and duo Siggy Pig and Stupid Seal. Goodman hired his wife's cousin, Stanley Liber, as an assistant general office in 1939. When editor Simon left the company at the end of 1941, Goodman made Liber by that time he had written the pseudonym Stan Lee - the interim editor of the comic book line, a position that Lee retained for except for three years during his military service in World War II. Lee wrote extensively for timely, contributing to a range of different titles. Goodman's business strategy included publishing various magazines and comics by a number of corporations operating outside the same office and with the same staff. One of these shell companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55 (May 1944). In addition, some comic book covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12 (Winter 1946-1947), were labeled as A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman officially adopted the title in 1961. Atlas Comics Home article: Atlas Comics (1950s) Postwar American Comic Market saw superheroes fall out of fashion. Goodman's line of comics dropped them for the most part and expanded into a wider range of genres than even timely published, featuring horrors, westerns, humor, funny animals, male adventure drama, giant monster, crime and war comics, and then adding jungle books, novel titles, espionage and even medieval adventures, biblical stories and sports.