Parent Company: Marvel Entertainment, LLC (The Walt Disney Company)
Headquarters: New York City, New York, United States
Founder: Martin Goodman
Founded: May 1, 1939, New York City, United States
Fiction Genre: Superhero fiction
Official Website: www.marvel.com
Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment Marvel Worldwide's parent company. Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s, had generally become known as Atlas Comic. The Marvel branding began 1961, the year that the company launched Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and many others.
