Marvellous Marvel
Marvel Studios are known world-wide for some of the best action films you’ll ever get and some of the best planned storylines. This is why the films are popular for so long and Marvel have made over 18 films with 8 more planned and currently filming.
Since 2007, this universe of entertainment has produced and filmed many movies, including some of the most expensive ones ever made. The budget on these films is getting higher and higher, but so is the income. For the Avengers 2, Age of Ultron, the film budget was $316 million, but ended up being almost $1 billion!
Starting at the very beginning, the marvel studios began as a comic book classic. You could find the ‘Amazing Spider Man‘ and ‘The Incredible Hulk’ plastered on the front of a simple comic book, with all over it. Now, the Marvel empire is loved everywhere and is something that is for the WHOLE family. If you don’t know Marvel, you’re missing out.
Here are some fun facts about Marvel,and its heroes:
1. Before the X-Men comic books, Wolverine was originally an enemy of the Hulk. In the 1974 issue of The Incredible Hulk #180, the original Wolverine did not have retractable claws but instead he wore gloves with claws attached. He had animal like senses and rage with Spider-man like strength.
2. X-Men’s Professor X was modeled after MLK and Magneto was modeled after Malcolm X.
3. After the Vietnam War and Watergate Scandal, Captain America became so disillusioned with the US government that he became “The Nomad”
4. X-Men’s Cyclops is a disabled mutant and his early origin explains that he can’t control his eye beams because he fell out of a plane as a child and suffered brain damage.
5. In a 1981 special, Batman took out the Hulk is an absurdly efficient Batman kind of way. After a mess involving the Joker, the Shaper-of-Worlds, and a fake general, the Hulk began a rampage at Wayne Tech. Batman tossed a knock-out gas grenade at Hulk’s head, and then kicked him in the solar plexus, forcing the Hulk to breath in the gas. Hulk went down quick.
6. In the 1997 DC/Marvel special Batman/Captain America, the Red Skull hires the Joker to steal an atomic bomb during World War II. Joker evades Batman, Cap, Bucky, and Robin and delivers it to the Skull, but is horrified when he learns that the Skull is a Nazi (saying “I may be a criminal lunatic but I’m an American criminal lunatic!”). When the Skull threatens to drop the bomb on Washington D.C., the Joker actually fights him in the plane’s cargo bay. When Captain America and Batman take over the plane and bring it over the ocean, the two villains are dropped out with the bomb just before it explodes. Both Captain America and Batman are convinced the two are still alive somehow.
7. In the debut of Hulk, Stan Lee chose gray for the Hulk because he wanted a color that did not suggest any particular ethnic group. Colorist Stan Goldberg, however, had problems with the gray coloring, resulting in different shades of grey, and even green, in the issue. After seeing the first published issue, Lee chose to change the skin color to green.
8. Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero no one should like and force people to like him.
9. ForgetMeNot is a character in the X-men comics who has been on the team for years. However, due to the nature of his powers, he went unnoticed by his peers and remained absent from official rosters. Professor X placed a psychic reminder in his own mind to force him to remember ForgetMeNot’s existence once an hour.
10. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally a parody of Daredevil, and both Daredevil and the Turtles were created from the same accident.
