Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is one of the major publishing companies producing comic book properties today, rivaled primarily by DC Comics. Founded by Martin Goodman in 1939, five years after the establishment of DC, the company was initially known as Timely Comics, and later Atlas. By 1961, however, following experimentation with science fiction and funny animal characters, the line was relaunched as Marvel (taking its name from one of their earliest comic titles), and re-focused on superheroes. The company soon became DC's most notable rival, with such properties as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men, all of which, like their DC counterparts, have been adapted into animation, films, television, and video games.

In the mid-1990s, Marvel acquired the license to publish comics based on then-modern Disney properties such as Beauty and the Beast, Gargoyles, and Darkwing Duck. These were eventually condensed into one title, Disney Comic Hits!, in the summer of 1995. However, due to Marvel filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 1996, Disney Comic Hits! was cancelled that very month.

In December 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment (the parent company of Marvel Comics).

You can see many cameos of one of the writers, Stan Lee, in almost every Marvel film project.

1994-1996

 * Aladdin (11 issues; August 1994-June 1995)
 * Beauty and the Beast (13 issues; July 1994-July 1995)
 * The Disney Afternoon (10 issues; September 1994-June 1995)
 * Disney Comic Hits! (16 issues; August 1995-November 1996)
 * Gargoyles (11 issues; December 1994-October 1995)
 * The Little Mermaid (12 issues; July 1994-June 1995)

2011-present

 * The Muppets: The Four Seasons (4 issues; July-October 2012)
 * Toy Story (4 issues)