31 Awesome Marvel Comics Facts

Historical facts about everyones favorite comic giant.

By Einstain

Published 11 years ago in People & Lifestyle

Historical facts about everyones favorite comic giant.

1
Marvels Deadpool Wade Wilson was originally created as a spoof of DCs Deathstroke Slade Wilson.

2
Agent Coulson once defeated an entire HYDRA unit sole-handedly. When asked what weapon he used, he held out his pen.

3
Marvel created a character named Irene Adler after the Sherlock Holmes character, who was supposed to be Mystiques lover. Marvel wasnt allowed to portray a gay relationship, so they made them to be friends, but later announced that they were a couple.
4
The spider that bites Tobey Magquire in Spider-Man was chosen after a Spider Olympics, and was then painted with body paint when time didnt allow for a spider costume to be created

5
Darth Vader was inspired by Marvels Dr. Doom
6
In 2003, Marvel Comics announced it was planning to publish a five-part series entitled Di Another Day featuring a resurrected Diana The Princess of Wales, as a mutant with superpowers.
7
Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero that no one should like and force people to like him.

8
Eleven days before the 911 attacks, a character named Jihad was introduced into the Marvel Universe. He was a character, who was bent on world conquest.
9
Despite all the Gods that roam the universe, Marvel Universe lived under one true God called One-Above-All.
10
Deadpool has regularly broken the fourth wall. He knew that he was in comic books. This was due to his Comic Awareness, which was a pun about Captain Marvels Cosmic Awareness.

11
From 1975 to 1996, Marvel had trademarked the word, zombies. Perhaps understanding that this trademark wasnt enforceable, in 1996 they registered Marvel Zombies
12
Eminem is a character in the Marvel universe.
13
Spider-man married Mary Jane in 1987, for which Marvel held a publicity event featuring actors dressed like Spider-Man and Mary Jane getting married in Shea Stadium

14
The reason Spider-Man wasnt a part of the Avengers movie is because Marvel sold the rights to Sony.
15
There is a fictional company in the Marvel universe called Damage Control. It specializes in cleaning up the mess that superheroes and super villains leave behind.
16
Mr. Immortal is a Marvel character with no special powers except immortality. He has been killed in ways including shot, suffocated, stabbed, drowned, crushed, starved, dehydrated, exploded, poisoned, decapitated, irradiated and incinerated.

17
Stan Lee who worked for Marvel as a writer for hire sued Marvel in 2005 because he was hurt by Marvel Comics decision to keep profits from him over his 60 years with the company.
18
When the character of Nick Fury was re-introduced into the Ultimate Marvel comics, he was redesigned to resemble Samuel L Jackson, without the actors permission to use his image. It wasnt until Samuel himself saw his resemblance in the comic that he contacted Marvel to secure a role in any future Marvel movies.
19
Apart from writing for Marvel, Stan Lee also wrote 15 DC comics, reimagined popular superheroes like Batman and Superman.

20
In the 1970s, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel Comics to release the strangest Spiderman comic that discouraged teens from having unprotected sex.
21
There is a Marvel Character called Asbestos Lady, who robbed banks with her accomplices, who like her all wore asbestos lined clothing. She later died of cancer.
22
In 1996, Marvel and DC comics created Amalgam Comics that joined their two universes together, thus resulting in characters such as Darkclaw BatmanWolverine, Super Soldier SupermanCaptain America, and Iron Lantern Green LanternIron Man.

23
In 1983, Marvel published a comic about Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Ham. He was a Spider-Pig named Peter-Porker
24
Marvel has a superhero named Throg. He is a frog that has the power of Thor and is in a superhero group called the Pet Avengers
25
In 2002, a 4-year-old boy suffering from hearing loss didnt want to wear a hearing aid because Super heroes dont. To get him to wear his hearing aids, Marvel Comics created a super hero with a hearing aid called Blue Ear

26
There is a Marvel super hero called Squirrel Girl, who once beat Doctor Doom by flooding his aircraft with a swarm of squirrels.
27
During the production of the Avengers movie, they couldnt get the Hulks roar to sound just right so they decided to supplement it with recordings of Lou Ferrigno bellowing as the original Hulk.
28
Venom, the Spider-Man villain was a fan-based concept that Marvel bought for 220 dollars

29
There was a 1995 issue of Punisher called The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe in which he killed every single Marvel superhero and villain, including himself.
30
Due to strange laws in USA, importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that dont. Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are mutants and therefore should be exempt from such higher tax.
31
In the early 1990s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider Man in his own produced movie