3. Facts about Marvel
Marvel is an American comic publisher that was
created in 1939 in New York, United States. It
was funded by Martin Good man who use had a
career in pulp magazines but moved onto comic
book industry in 1930’s and later by the 1963
officially changed the company name to marvel.
A few years after that he retired and left the
company in his nephew’s hands Stan Lee who
also went by many other names such as “Stan
the man” and many more.
In 1993 Marvel Studios was started which is the
Movie part of Marvel who is now owned by the
huge conglomerate Disney and which has went
onto creating many super hero movies such as
Iron Man, Spider-Man, Avengers, X-Man and
many more.
What type of comic books does
Marvel produce?
Marvel is most know for publishing
the superhero genre but they also
produce comic books for a more
niche audience as some of the comic
books include more gore or more
sexual content for an older audience
so they have a large range of
content.
Facts about Marvel
• The series collectively has
grossed over $14.8 billion at the
global box office, making it the
highest-grossing film franchise of
all time.
• Michael Jackson tried to buy
Marvel Comics in early 1990’s so
he could play as Spider-Man.
4. Facts about Stan Lee
• Stan Lee’s birth name is Stanley
Lieber
• He commentated over some of his
comic books
• Some of his most well know
creations are Amazing Spider-Man
and The Incredible Hulk
• Born: 28 December 1922 (age 95
years)
• If Stan Lee could be a Villain he
said he would be Dr. Doom.
• He severed in the army
• Stan’s trademark catchphrase,
“Excelsior!” means “Ever upward.”
• Stan received the American
National Medal of the Arts from
George W. Bush
Who is Stan Lee?
For starters Stan Lee is an American comic
book writer who first started of as a
assistant in his uncle’s company “marvel”
and then later was given a chance to create
a story and with the artist Jack Kirby they
went onto creating the Fantastic Four as
well as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk and
Thor.
Stan Lee is often also recognised for
popularising the superhero comic genre as
the movie adaptations made it clear that
superhero's on the big screen were sought
after.
He is also very well known for his movie
cameos as he has been in all marvel owned
productions.
5. The Golden Age
(1938-1950) this
was the time
that there was a
clear stylistic
distinction
between good
and evil. The
golden age style
was similar to
newspapers
with cartooning
being used and
panels laid out
in simple square
grids.
Who are the main Marvel artists?
Steve Ditko: He is most known for helping in the Making of Spider-Man and his art work is one of the original one as he and Stan
both created the hero together.
Jack Kirby: He is known for helping create Hulk, Thor, Captain America, X-Men, Fantastic Four and many others. His style became the
face of Marvel in that time.
Alex Ross: He is known for painting the superhuman abilities such as x-ray, super-strength, flight and other things.
The Silver Age (1950-
1971) this was the time
after the war and the
people did not believe in
a invincible caped
avenger that would
smite all his enemies
that is why they tried to
make the comic books
appeal to more adult
sensibilities. The art
style of the silver age
included a lot of
surrealism to illustrate
the strange worlds in
which the heroes lived
as well as mixing in pop
art.
The Bronze age
was the age
were the villains
have used all of
the tricks and
now the hero’s
gained new
tougher
enemies that
resulted in the
hero’s friends
getting involved.
The art style of
this age was
more
experimental of
photorealistic.
The Dark Age (1980 –
1993) It was a time
were comic books
were more dark as
comic books like The
Killing Joke and
Watchmen came out
the line between
hero and villain were
blurry the art style
was mostly a night
one based with the
use of lighting and
long shadows was
tested.
The Ageless Age
(1993 – Present
day) this is a age
were there is no
limits to the
story and the
new technology
allows for movie
adaptation. The
art style has
changed as the
advanced
technology can
be used for 3D
modeling and
they are better
than ever.
6. Name: Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange
Superhero Aliases: Sorcerer Supreme, Master of the
Mystic Arts, Stephen Sanders, Captain Universe, Vincent
Stevens, Strange
Age: unknown
First appearance: Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)
Birthday: 1930
Gender: Male
Height: 6’2”
Doctor Strange origin story summed up.
Strange was a successful neurosurgeon then he had a accident that
ruined his hands and he searched for anyway to fix them finally he
heard of the Ancient One who could heal incurable cases and he
sought her and found out about the mystic arts and as become the
protector of the Earth from any magical beings.
He is the last member of his family as his farther, mother and sister
died of natural causes but his brother wanted to commit suicide as
strange did not attend their fathers burial strange froze his brother
cryogenically until there is a way to save him.
Who created Dr.
Strange?
Dr. Strange was
created by Stan
Lee and artist
Steve Ditko
7. Carnage origin story summed up.
Cletus Kasady as a child killed his grandmother by pushing her of
the stairs then his father killed his mother because she was trying to
kill him and he testified against his father and he got kill by electric
chair. Then as a adult he was a serial killer and was spending time in
jail were Eddie Brock was held and the symbiote called venom came
to rescue him but a fragment of venom was left behind and created
Carnage who was venoms of spring as the race they belong to the
Klyntar produce one offspring during their life and this was Carnage.
Carnage increased Kasady’s violent intentions and made him
become even less mentally stable.
Who created
Carnage ?
Carnage was created
by: David Michelinie
,Erik Larsen and
Mark Bagley.
Name: Cletus Kasady
Super villain Aliases: Carnage
Age: Unknown
First appearance: (as Cletus Kasady) Amazing Spider-
Man #344 (1991),(as Carnage) Amazing Spider-Man
#360 (1992)
Birthday: Unknown
Gender: Male
Height: Unknown
8. About ViZ media
Viz media is a an American manga and anime distribution and entertainment company located in San Francisco, California. The company
was funded in 1986 as VIZ LLC but in 2005 VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LCC. The key people
that run the company are Ken Sasaki (President & CEO) and Hidemi Fukuhara (Vice-President).
The person who created VIZ media was Seiji Horibuchi, originally he was from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, moved to California in 1975.
After he lived in the mountains for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business of exporting American cultural
items to Japan, after that he became a writer of cultural information. He became interested in publishing Japanese Manga in the US but he
did not really get into anime until 1985 where he read Katsuhiro Otomo’s single-volume title Domu: A Child’s Dream. He was given the
opportunity to make his idea come to life after meeting Masahiro Ohga who gave Horibuchi $200,000 which he used in 1986 to found VIZ
Communications.
In 1987 VIZ Communications released its first titles which include things like Legend of Kamui, unfortunately the sales were mediocre due to
the specialist comic market being adverse to venturing into new territory. Horibuchi cleverly started calling manga graphic novels so they
could be carried my mainstream bookstores and it worked. The rest of the creation involved the merging of the 2 companies in 2002
because of competition in the market and so on.
What type of products does VIZ Media
cover?
VIZ Media has a range of anime and
manga such as:
• Manga
• Anime
• Live action films
9. Facts about Kishimoto:
• Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto manga
accounted for nearly 10% of all manga
sales in the US in 2006.
• During middle school , he began losing
interest in drawing , and instead
focused on sports. But , after seeing
the movie poster for Akira , he became
so inspired that he got back to
drawing.
• Ramen is his favorite food.
• When asked what he hopes readers
will take away from the series, he said
“In real life, it’s hard for people to
understand each other because of
things like differences in culture or
upbringing. As you grow up, you start
to see that sometimes things in life
don’t go right. But I created Naruto to
tell the younger generation that
although there’s hardship in life, you
can get along. Other than that, I would
rather let the audience themselves find
out what they can get from Naruto.”
Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto :
Naruto was originally a manga which over the
years has gotten a anime adaptation and a number
of movies over all the franchise is very successful
with another series going on right now called
“Boruto: Naruto Next Generations”.
Naruto was created in late 1999-2014 by an author
named Masashi Kishimoto who was born on
November 8th 1974 so he was 25 when creating
the series that would become a worldwide hit with
over 220 million copies being sold worldwide
between 1999-2014.
Kishimoto was a manga reader since a young age
and he stated that he took inspiration from the
likes of Akira Toriyama who is the creator of Dragon
Ball and Katsuhiro Otomo who created Dōmu and a
few other manga's, as a result of that Kishimoto
spent several years working on his own Shonen
manga ( Shonen meaning “few years” these anime
normal have young protagonists who we grow with
as the series progresses).
10. Name: Naruto
Age: 20’s
First appearance: Volume #1, Naruto Chapter #1
Birthday: october 10
Gender: Male
Height: Part I: 145.3 cm–147.5 cm, Part II: 166 cm, Blank Period:
180 cm
The story of Naruto summarised:
First we see Naruto is as a young 9 year old boy in a ninja village called the leaf village, he is
very lonely and has no friends and everyone hates him we can also see that he is quite a
prankster and that he has no parents but as we get to know him more we understand why
this is and we can relate to him in a way. We also get to see how his story unfolds and how he
improved and how his best trait is to never give up no matter what. The official story ended
with him achieving his goal he wanted since he was little and then it moves onto the next
generation.
11. The story of nagato summarised:
Nagato’s story begins with him living with his parents and Madara Uchiha transplanting his Rinnegan which is a special eye
into him with anyone knowing, later when the second ninja war started his family was peaceful and did not want to get
involved but got killed by two leaf village ninja as Nagato’s parents attacked them so that he could run after his parents died
he awakened the Rinnegan and killed the two ninja that killed his family. After burying his parents, nagato was an orphan
and was forced to leave home to find food and shelter and since resources were limited because of the war he had not met
anyone that would help him until he met two orphans named Konan and Yahiko, the three orphans resulted to stealing until
they met three ninjas called the sannin and one named jiraiya who was later naruto’s master as well he stayed behind to
teach the orphans to fight so they can defend themselves after jiraiya left the orphans started a group named the Akatsuki
who turned into a evil organisation later but at first they wanted to stop the war but it did not work and all of them died
except Nagato and Konan they continued Yahiko’s dream which was to stop the rain in his village as it reminded him of tears.
After his death the Akatsuki collected tailed beasts which are powerful creatures in the naruto world and naruto is one of
them, “Pain” destroyed naruto’s village and killed a lot of people but after naruto beat him he revived them all and as naruto
helped him relies there is still hope.
Name: Nagato (Goes by pain)
Age: 35
First appearance: Volume #41, Naruto Chapter #372
Birthday: September 19
Gender: Male
Height: Part II: 175.5 cm
The name Nagato means Pain.
12. Page No. Link To The Pages Reason For Looking On The Site.
3 https://historyofmarvel.weebly.com/martin-goodman.html • Information about Marvel’s creation
4 https://historyofmarvel.weebly.com/stan-lee.html • Information about Stan lee
5 https://99designs.co.uk/blog/design-history-movements/history-of-comic-book-styles/
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-marvel-comic-book-artists.php
• Different styles over the years in marvel
• Information about the most known marvel artists.
6 http://marvel.com/universe/Doctor_Strange_(Stephen_Strange)#axzz5B37IdHdS • Information about Dr Strange
7 http://marvel.com/universe/Brock,_Eddie#axzz5B37IdHdS
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Klyntar_(Race)
http://marvel.com/universe/Carnage#axzz5B37IdHdS
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Carnage_(Marvel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_(comics)
• Finding information about the character of carnage
and his powers
• Image of carnage
8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_Media
http://whatchareading.com/viz-media-releases-new-anime-streaming-site/#.WuwrGlMrImI
• Information about Viz media
• Image of Viz media
10/11 https://kotaku.com/how-to-identify-the-basic-types-of-anime-and-manga-1538285518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto
https://otakukart.com/animeblog/2016/10/04/12-facts-about-masashi-kishimoto-you-didnt-
know/3/
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/NarutoNarutoUzumaki
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Nagato
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Nagato_(Reincarnated).png
Used for finding out what shonens are.
= nagato information and images of him
