Itâs fair to assume that when most people think of Marvel movies, they immediately think of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That certainly stands out as one of the most universally-known aspects of Marvel, with groundbreaking films like The Avengers making up the vast MCU landscape. But, of course, the MCU doesnât even begin to cover every story in the Marvel Comics repertoire, and Marvel movies existed long before Phase One started.A long-discussed subject among Marvel fans is the question of which movie was Marvelâs first. Itâs perhaps an explainable course of conversation, given Marvelâs history. Marvel Comics wasnât known by that name for decades before the 1960s when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby entered the picture. The Silver Age of Comics is when Marvel became Marvel, and characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man were born in that period. Since they dominated the comic industry for generations, itâs unsurprising that a lot of people donât know about the period when they explored movies for the first time. In reality, the first Marvel movie isn’t what most fans expect, but instead an infamous flop from the 1980s.Superheroes have comparatively humble origins, and the perceived stigma of their status as “funny books for the kids” slowed their transition to the movies. The first big-screen superheroes came from DC, and they appeared as low-end serials in the 1940s: including multiple Superman stories and a few featuring Batman and Robin. The success of the former eventually led to the television series The Adventures of Superman, starring George Reeves as The Man of Steel. As a younger medium, TV was more inclined to embrace superhero stories, and the success of Superman and Adam West’s campy Batman a decade later convinced networks to bet relatively big on them in the 1970s.
Itâs fair to assume that when most people think of Marvel movies, they immediately think of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That certainly stands out as one of the most universally-known aspects of Marvel, with groundbreaking films like The Avengers making up the vast MCU landscape. But, of course, the MCU doesnât even begin to cover every story in the Marvel Comics repertoire, and Marvel movies existed long before Phase One started.
A long-discussed subject among Marvel fans is the question of which movie was Marvelâs first. Itâs perhaps an explainable course of conversation, given Marvelâs history. Marvel Comics wasnât known by that name for decades before the 1960s when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby entered the picture. The Silver Age of Comics is when Marvel became Marvel, and characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man were born in that period. Since they dominated the comic industry for generations, itâs unsurprising that a lot of people donât know about the period when they explored movies for the first time. In reality, the first Marvel movie isn’t what most fans expect, but instead an infamous flop from the 1980s.
Superheroes have comparatively humble origins, and the perceived stigma of their status as “funny books for the kids” slowed their transition to the movies. The first big-screen superheroes came from DC, and they appeared as low-end serials in the 1940s: including multiple Superman stories and a few featuring Batman and Robin. The success of the former eventually led to the television series The Adventures of Superman, starring George Reeves as The Man of Steel. As a younger medium, TV was more inclined to embrace superhero stories, and the success of Superman and Adam West’s campy Batman a decade later convinced networks to bet relatively big on them in the 1970s.
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