7. It's Being Released For Marvel's 80th Anniversary
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Marvel Comics (technically) has been going since 1939. The company known as Timely Comics published the first issue of Marvel that very year, which introduced what would later become the first heroes of the Marvel Universe in Namor and the original Human Torch. Captain America would later join in 1941, but Marvel Comics #1 laid the foundations of what is today the most successful superhero universe in print.
Is it a somewhat tedious way of getting to do an #1000 issue at the same time DC are doing theirs? Absolutely, but it's hard to disagree that Marvel don't deserve it.
The company is at the forefront of popular culture currently thanks to the efforts of the MCU, and while the comics haven't always been able to capitalise on that popularity, the last decade in particular has seen the publisher produce some truly magnificent comics.
Will anything else arrive for the festivities? It's unclear at the moment, but one would suspect that there's more to this anniversary bash than just an anniversary bash...
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
