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Marvel Comic Universe
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This article is about the shared universe setting used by many Marvel Comics titles. For the computer game, see Marvel Universe Online.
Various characters of the Marvel Universe, technology is slightly more advanced than in the real world; this is due to unique individuals of genius intelligence, such as Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) of the Fantastic Four. However, most of the other cosmic characters, are morally neutral. They often say that such concepts are relative (implicit in Galactus' anthill analogy), or simply relevant only to "lesser" beings. That being said, it's difficult to really equate The One Above All with the Judeo-Christian God. When the One-Above-All finally appeared on-panel in a 2004 Fantastic Four storyline, he appeared in the form of Jack Kirby, who 'sketched out' reality on a comic book storyboard. He professed to communicate with a partner (implied to be Stan Lee), though exactly where this Lee-based being would fall in the cosmic hierarchy is unrevealed.
While the above is true, the Living Tribunal, and most of the other cosmic characters, are morally neutral. They often say that such concepts are relative (implicit in Galactus' anthill analogy), or simply relevant only to "lesser" beings. That being said, it's difficult to really equate The One Above All with the Judeo-Christian God. When the One-Above-All finally appeared on-panel in a 2004 Fantastic Four storyline, he appeared in the form of a density change instead, allowing a character to become harder or incorporeal. Some characters can seem to "transform" themselves (or others) into unliving substances, or even pure energy, by storing their bodies in extradimensional space and replacing them with bodies made from matter or energy from that dimension, while their souls remain on Earth, controlling their new body. Travel into other dimensions can also be used to travel to and from its home dimension, but this is dangerous to all except those with Darkforce powers. Some believe that the Darkforce is sentient and sometimes has an evil influence on those who use it. Various heroes and villains have no powers at all but depend instead on hand-to-hand combat training or advanced technological equipment. In the Marvel Universe, technology is slightly more advanced than in the real world; this is due to unique individuals of genius intelligence, such as Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) of the Fantastic Four. However, most of the important events) are those created between 1961 and 1963, during Marvel's "Silver Age": Spider-Man, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, as well as miniseries
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19 Nov 2008 at 4:41pm There have been many instances of heroic sacrifice in the Marvel Universe . In 1970?s ?Amazing Spider-Man #90, Police Captain George Stacy let himself be crushed by falling rubble in order to save the life of a child. In 1988, in ?New Mutants ... Read more...
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19 Nov 2008 at 8:27am I'm what I would call a casual fan of comic books. I've certainly seen most of the big budget summer-blockbusters that Marvel and DC books have birthed and there are surely a few boxes packed away with stacks of beautifully drawn stories from the ... Read more...
17 Nov 2008 at 5:55pm These days, it seems like there?s a rather singular driving force behind the lion?s share of the most popular mainstream comics: The big events, the broad and all encompassing disruptions to the status quo. Heck, even this new-blooded approach to ... Read more...
16 Nov 2008 at 4:52pm And I'll be honest: if it wasn't for the fact that comics would take up way too much of my time --- and money --- I'd probably still be reading GL (problem is all the crossovers would mean I'd be reading other comics as well). For a shorter period (I ... Read more...
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9 Nov 2008 at 5:58pm Dina Gottliebova Babbitt survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland by painting watercolor portraits for Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, the ?Angel of Death,? who conducted gruesome experiments on the prisoners. Today Babbit is 85 ... Read more...
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