Mavel Comic Book Description's
Marvel Comics #1
The first Mavel comic, published in fall 1939, with cover art by pulp magazine illustrator Frank R. Paul. It contained a mixture of boys' adventure tales and Super Hero stories, including the first appearances of Human Torch (a flame-powered android, not to be confused with the character with the same name from "The Fantastic Four") and the Sub-Mariner. It is now regarded as one of the most collectible comics in the world.
Luke Cage
Created by Archie Goodwin and John Romita, Sr. in 1972, Luke Cage was Marvel's first African American Super Hero to get his own title. The Character was inspired in part by the so-called Blacksploitation movies of that era - movies that were popular with both black and white audiences, but also controversial for their use of racial and gender sterotypes. Cage's early comic books thus depict a version of black masculinity that can generate mixed feelings today. Some regard his jive-talk and pimped-out costume with fond nastalgia; others see it as painfully dated. But when Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos reintroduced Cage to the world of Jessica Jones in 2001 they jettisoned the older mannerisms, giving Luke a winning mixture of strength and sensitivity more suited to the 21st century
Daredevil
Stan Lee and Bill Everett created Daredevil in 1964, and in doing so, took the Marvel approach of humanizing their heroes further than ever before, fashioning Marvel's first leading character with a disability. Matt Murdock is a legally blind lawyer who works within the legal system by day, and at night dons a costume to fight crime on his own terms.
The inherent moral paradox of lawyer/vigilante was initially merely implicit, but became a focal point of writer/artist Frank Miller's groundbreaking work on the character in the 1980s. Miller's gritty approach provided widely influential on later creators and also served as a key template for the intense and highly acclaimed 2015 Marvel's "Daredevil" TV series.
X-Men
"The Uncanny X-Men" created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, the X-Men are a team of super-powered mutants devoted to protecting a human race that fears and despises them. Under writer Chris Claremont and a slew of acclaimed artists (including Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, Paul Smith and Jim Lee), the X-Men rose to become Marvel's most successful characters during the 1980s. Wolverine became a particular fan favorite, for a time even eclipsing Spider-Man in popularity
