How Marvel Comics Changed the World.

Introduction

Nature of super heroes in the 1930’s & 1940’s:

Marvel Started out as the underdog

Introduce Stan Lee

Stan Lee’s Heroes:

He Humanized Heroes When Stan Lee came to Marvel, the company was tiny and struggling, not even yet called Marvel. Stan Lee may not have started Marvel, but he’s definitely responsible — with the help of fellow geniuses Kirby, Simon, et al.—for making Marvel what it is today. And he did it by bringing heroes down to earth. Prior to Stan Lee’s writing, most superheroes were just that: super. They were mythic, without much in the way of human foibles. When Stan Lee added that dimension, it opened up new vistas of readership and gave new readers more ways to connect to those characters. Superman was a monolithic force of good in a fictitious Metropolis; the Fantastic Four were a bickering family in Midtown Manhattan who just happened to have powers. It was the basic humanity of Marvel’s seminal super-team, frailties and failings and all, that drew readers to their adventures. And it didn’t stop there: Spider-man was just a poor orphan from Queens who lived with his elderly aunt. Daredevil was blind. The Hulk was a victim of his own rage, and Captain America was a man stranded in time. It was the human face of the heroes that allowed them to live long past the era that gave them birth. In making them more human, Stan Lee allowed superheroes to remain relevant, generation after generation.

Expanded Large Vocabularies:

There are a few pop-culture places that professional writers credit with extending their vocabularies when they were just kids — The Electric Company on PBS, Dungeons and Dragons, and yes, comic books. Especially Marvel comic books. And that means Stan Lee. Stan wrote pretty highbrow for the kid audience for which he was aiming — in part because he was also working to attract the intelligentsia in the ’60s, both students and educators alike. But Stan was never one to shy away from the big words — he’d include words that his own letterers had to look up. Just check the photo above: On the original page, above the art, they had to write down exactly how to spell the word “soliloquy” in order to use it in a panel caption. That’s Stan Lee’s diction in action; for all the superhuman power his stories showed readers, a strong sense of communication was the greatest power of all. Stan always ended his monthly columns with the sign-off "Excelsior!," which some translate to "ever upward" in Latin. It was certainly his philosophy — and if it meant readers had to run to a dictionary, all the better. 

Fantastic Four:

When jotting down ideas for the Fantastic Four, Lee conceived them as real, living people whose personal relationships would interest readers.

Traditionally, comic books had very simple storylines. Fantastic Four, in contrast, honed in on the personalities of its heroes rather than solely focusing on their abilities.

"They were the kind of team I had been longing to write about," Lee said. "Heroes who were less than perfect.

"Heroes who didn't always get along with each other, but heroes who could be counted on when the chips were down."

The Fantastic Four was published in November 1961 and the public loved the fresh approach, making the new series of books an overnight sensation.

Soon after Lee created the Incredible Hulk and then Spider-Man, which went on to be one of the most successful characters in comic book history.

Spider Man: (Immature Hero)

X-Men:( Civil Rights Movement/Embracing your Flaws)

Black Panther:(First Mainstream Black Hero)

Iron Man:(Don’t Like Him)

The Comic Code:(Censorship)

Rebellion of the Comic Code:

Super Battle Against the War on Drugs:

Heroes That Kill People:

Decline of Popularity:

Movie Universe?

Super Media Game Changer

The MCU(Marvel Cinematic Universe) and impact of superhero movies.