The Fantastic Four were Marvel’s first massive comic success, and are called their First Family for good reason, being the ...

but the company extends all the way back to the Golden Age of comics. The publication of Marvel Comics #1 featured the first appearances of characters as varied as Namor, the Angel and the Human ...

Without this nuance, he may have been left behind with other patriotically-themed Golden Age heroes. Captain America, Bucky ...

The argument can be made that Captain America is the entire reason that Marvel survived the Golden Age as a superhero comics publisher. Sure, Namor and Human Torch were first, but Cap was Marvel ...