1. Stan Lee who worked for Marvel as a writer for hire sued Marvel in 2005 because he was hurt by Marvel Comics’ decision to keep profits from him over his 60 years with the company.
2. In the early 1990’s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider Man in his own produced movie
3. Due to strange laws in USA, importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that don’t. Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are mutants and therefore should be exempt from such higher tax.
4. There was a 1995 issue of Punisher called The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe in which he killed every single Marvel superhero and villain, including himself.
5. Venom, the Spider-Man villain was a fan-based concept that Marvel bought for $220
6. During the production of the Avengers movie, they couldn’t get the Hulk’s roar to sound just right; so they decided to supplement it with recordings of Lou Ferrigno bellowing as the original Hulk.
7. There is a Marvel super hero called Squirrel Girl, who once beat Doctor Doom by flooding his aircraft with a swarm of squirrels.
8. In 2002, a 4-year-old boy suffering from hearing loss didn’t want to wear a hearing aid because “Super heroes don’t.†To get him to wear his hearing aids, Marvel Comics created a super hero with a hearing aid, “Blue Earâ€
9. Marvel has a superhero named Throg. He is a frog that has the power of Thor and is in a superhero group called the Pet Avengers
10. In 1983, Marvel published a comic about “Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Hamâ€. He was a “Spider-Pig†named Peter-Porker
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