Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics {{nyse|MVL}}, (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc., and Marvel Enterprises, Inc.) sometimes called by the nickname The House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. Its best-known comics include The Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and X-Men. Since the 1960s, it has been one of the two largest American comics companies, along with DC Comics. Located in New York City, Marvel has been successively headquartered in the McGraw-Hill Building on West 42nd Street (when the company originated as Timely Comics in 1939); Empire State Building; at 575 Madison Avenue; at 387 Park Avenue South; at 10 East 40th Street; and at 417 5th Avenue.

Editors-in-chief

The Marvel editor-in-chief has great power and oversees many creative decisions taken within the company.

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The position evolved sporadically. In the earliest years the company had a single editor overseeing the entire line, but as the company grew it became increasingly common for individual titles to be overseen separately. The concept of the "writer-editor" evolved, stemming from the days when Stan Lee wrote and oversaw most of the line's output. Overseeing the line in the 1970s were a series of chief editors, though the titles were used intermittently. Confusing matters further some appear to have been appointed merely by extending their existing editorial duties. By the time of the appointment of Jim Shooter in 1978 the post of editor-in-chief was clearly defined. In 1994, Marvel briefly abolished the position, replacing Tom DeFalco with five "group editors", though they each held the title "editor-in-chief" and had some editors underneath them. It reinstated the position later in the year, installing Bob Harras.

Related Topics:
1970s - 1978 - 1994 - Tom DeFalco - Bob Harras

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• Joe Simon (1939-1941)
• Stan Lee (1941-1942)
• Vincent Fago (acting editor during Stan Lee's military service) (1942-1945)
• Stan Lee (1945-1972)
• Roy Thomas (1972-1974)
• Len Wein (1974-1975)
• Marv Wolfman (B&W magazines 1974-1975, entire line 1975-1976)
• Gerry Conway (1976)
• Archie Goodwin (1976-1978)
• Jim Shooter (1978-1987)
• Tom DeFalco (1987-1994)
• No overall editor-in-chief (1994-1995)
• Bob Harras (1995-2000)
• Joe Quesada (2000-)

Sources: http://www.newkadia.com/MarvelComics.html, http://www.manwithoutfear.com/interviews/ddINTWolfman.shtml, http://www.geocities.com/marvel80s/mrv_hist.html.

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