Marvel has been an institution of American comic book publishing since it first formed in 1961, but it certainly didn’t spring from nothing. The company we now call Marvel Comics was originally made up of several different smaller publishing houses all grouped under the auspices of Martin Goodman. When Goodman first started publishing comics, he formed a company he called Timely Comics, which published all manner of comics and pulp material. The company later changed to the Atlas News Company and then finally merged with others into Marvel in November of 1961. In the years before Marvel formed, Goodman and his crew published hundreds of books, many of which inspired characters still in print today.
Of course, not all of Marvel’s current stock of characters came from Timely and its contemporaries; there are plenty of sources from the Golden Age of Comics, and even mythology, that has inspired the company that created the likes of Spider-Man and the Avengers. With that in mind, here are 15 Amazing Marvel Characters (That Weren’t Created By Marvel).
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