Modern Age

Modern Age

After the Ice Age of Marvel, they had plenty of characters that had different powers, abilities and has their own stories. Marvel was moving parallel with DC Comics. The Lead Writer and Editor of Marvel Comics STAN LEE wanted to do something extraordinary so, The FIRST MODERN COMIC BOOK under the marvel comics brand was the science- fiction anthology Journey into Mystery #69 and the teen-humor title Patsy Walker #95 , which each displayed an "MC"box on its cover. Then, in the wake of DC'comics success in reviving superheroes in the late 1950's and early 1960's particularly with The Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, Wonder Women, Green Arrow and other members of the team The Justice League of America, Marvel followed suit.

                                                                                                 In 1961, writer-editor Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics by introducing superhero designed to appeal to older reader than to predominantly child audience of the medium. Modern Marvel's First super hero team, the titular starts of The Fantastic Four, broke convention with other comic book of the time. Marvel comics developed a reputation for focusing on characterization and adult issue to a greater extent than most superhero comics before them a quality which the new generation of older readers appreciated. The applied to The Amazing spider-Man title in particular, which turned out to be Marvel's most successful book.

                         Marvel Comics were the breaker of chains and they broke the stereotypes of a handsome, athlete, shaped and fit superhero. Marvel made many heroes, some of them were monsters, some were animals, some were robots and some were aliens species. Marvel told the world that you don't need a fit body, handsome face and a dark and depressive future to be a superhero , all you need is a good heart and determination to do something better in life.

                                                       All these elements struck a chord with the older readers, including college-aged adults. In 1955, Spider-Man and the Hulk were both featured in Esquire magazine's list of 28 college campus heroes, alongside John F.Kennedy and Bob Dylan. Superman and DC Comics instantly seemed like boring old Pat Boons; Marvel felt The Beatles and British Invasion.In addition to Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four  Marvel begin publishing further superhero titles featuring heroes anti-heroes as The Hulk, Ant Man, Iron Man , The X-Men, Daredevil, The In Humans, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel and The Silver Surfer, and such memorable antagonists as Doctor Doom, Magneto, Galactus, Loki, The Green Goblin, and Doctor Octopus, all existing in a shared reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. 

                                                 

                                                                                                                        By Abubakar and Arham