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3 unusual facts about Marvel: Ultimate Alliance


Gabriele Dell'Otto

In 2006 he illustrated the cover and promotional images of the Italian version of the Activision videogame Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.

Homo mermanus

The game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance features a stage where the players must travel to the underwater city of Atlantis to stop a riot orchestrated by Attuma, who believes he will become the sea kingdoms' new ruler as foretold in the Atlantean Chronicles.

Legacy Virus

In the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, a side mission includes saving a S.H.I.E.L.D. Omega Base Computer (which contains research data on the Legacy Virus) from being destroyed by 3 out of 5 Super Soldiers.


Action Man: 1993–2006

Panini Comics own the Marvel UK licence and Marvel UK had previously been responsible for the creation of an Action Force comic.

Arthur Storer

The comet became known as Storer's Comet, until Edmund Halley later predicted the comet's return; thereafter this celestial marvel was known as Halley's Comet.

Black Tom

Black Tom Cassidy, a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men

Carole E. Handler

Handler's discovery of that fact, and her interpretation of IP law during the court proceedings, caused the rights to revert to Marvel, which was bought by Avi Arad and Ike Perlmutter.

Charlie Huston

Wolverine: The Best There Is - Contagion (with Juan Jose Ryp and Brian Hitch, Marvel Comics), material collected in Wolverine: The Best There Is #1-6, July 2011

Chris Giarrusso

Mini Marvels: Secret Invasion digest collection (96 pages, February 2009, Marvel Comics)

Christopher Hinz

He also co-created and wrote the Dead Corps four-issue limited series for Helix, and a ten-issue story arc for Marvel's Blade which comprised Volume 2 of the series.

Condorman

Following Disney's acquisition of Marvel Comics in 2009, The Amazing Spider-Man editor Stephen Wacker lobbied to have Condorman brought into the Marvel Universe.

Cybertron

Cybertron is described in the first issue of the Marvel comic book as being the size of Saturn, which would logically mean it possessed incredibly dense gravity, and yet it did not, possibly as a result of its hollow structure, honeycombed as it is by tunnels.

David Nakayama

Marvel Adventures: Spider-man Digest vol.2, 'Fiercest Foes' (Marvel, April 2008)

Disney Magic

The ship's cabins, lounges, restaurants and spa were to be completely updated in addition to new features including; "Marvel's Avengers Academy", a play area based on Marvel's Avengers characters, the AquaDunk and the AquaLab, consisting of a pool and waterslide that will replace the ship's Mickey Pool.

Doctor Spectrum

There have been five versions of the character to date - three supervillains from the mainstream Marvel Universe belonging to the team Squadron Sinister (Earth-616) and two heroes from different alternate universes.

EMH

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, an American cartoon series by Marvel Animation

Fred Van Lente

X-Men Noir (with Dennis Calero, 4-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, February–May 2009)

Gerry Talaoc

In the 1980s, Talaoc moved over to Marvel, where he worked primarily as an inker, on such titles as The Incredible Hulk (mostly paired with Sal Buscema), Alpha Flight, and the Comet Man limited series (inking over Kelley Jones' pencils).

Graphic Imaging Technology

For a time, GIT held the license to release collections of scanned Marvel comic books, which included some of their classic characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four.

Great Lakes Avengers

In 2005, the GLA were featured in a four-issue mini-series titled GLA: Misassembled (written by Dan Slott) and the Marvel one-shot GLX-Mas Special (2005).

Her Highness and Silk

In the story Her Highness and Silk join forces with long time Marvel Family foe Aunt Minerva, another old criminal lady, and attempt to use Uncle Dudley as a cover to steal money from the circus.

Hilary Barta

His first comics work came in June 1982, when he helped legendary Marvel inkers Al Milgrom, Joe Sinnott and Sal Trapani provide inks for the pencils of Don Perlin on The Defenders #108.

Joe In The Future

That scenario was eventually appropriated by artist Arthur Suydam, a mutual friend of both Weisfeld and Koch, for an episode of Suydam's Cholly and Flytrap series in Marvel Comics Epic Magazine.

Lady Punisher

Lynn Michaels, a Marvel Comics character seen in the Punisher comic books.

Little Marvel

Little Marvel records were sold exclusively at UK Woolworth's chain stores from 1921 to 1928, at a retail price of 6d (sixpence).

Little Wizards

Little Wizards is a American animated series, created by Len Janson and Chuck Menville and produced by Marvel Productions, that ran from 1987 to 1988.

Marc Sumerak

He was a member of the Marvel editorial team from 1999–2003, working alongside editor Tom Brevoort.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds

Marvel vs. Capcom 3's first and only international representation (due to the release of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3) as a main tournament fighting game at the renowned e-sports event, the Evo Championship Series, was in July 2011, held in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mega Morphs

Marvel has yet to reveal if Mega Morphs takes place on Earth-616 (mainstream Marvel) or another Earth.

Moonstar

Danielle Moonstar (also known by the codenames Moonstar, Psyche and Mirage), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics X-Men franchise.

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly

The box remained, sans words and colored in, when reprinted as part of the 12-page story in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), and reprinted as the original eight-page story in Marvel's The Invaders #20 (Sept. 1977).

Muhamad Radhi Mat Din

Radhi also known by the nickname Captain Marvel among Kedah fans during his playing careers with his similar characters of former English footballer Bryan Robson.

Newsarama

Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada's column "Joe Fridays" (renamed "New Joe Fridays" in 2006 as a joke regarding Marvel's penchant for relaunching titles with the prefix "new") appeared weekly until 2008, when the column moved to MySpace.

Patsy Walker

Following this, she was an ensemble star and narrator, alongside the superheroines Firestar, Black Cat, and Photon, in the miniseries Marvel Divas #1-4 (Sept.-Dec. 2009), which writers Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Tonci Zonjic had pitched it to Marvel editors as "Sex and the City in the Marvel Universe".

Powered exoskeleton

Appearances include Dominant Species by Michael Marks; the Fallout series of video games powered armor is portrayed as a bulking armor-plated mechanism, offering nearly complete protection against ballistic weapons and advanced resistance to energetic projectiles; is an example of this approach, as well as the Marvel comics franchise Iron Man.

Ramanathan Krishnan

Critics hailed Krishnan as a marvel, Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph described his tennis as 'pure oriental charm' while another described his style as 'Eastern magic'.

Rambeau

Monica Rambeau, fictional character, a comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe

Ravage

Ravage 2099, a fictional superhero, set in the far future, from Marvel Comics

Roger Craig Smith

He is generally known as the current voice behind Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series, as Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Assassin's Creed games, the current voice of Steve Rogers/Captain America in Ultimate Spider-Man and the series Avengers Assemble, and as the voice of Batman in the video game Batman: Arkham Origins.

Sarjakuvalehti

In the 1990s, the magazine featured the adventures of Marvel Comics' more "down-to-earth" characters (in the magazine staff's words), like the Punisher, Captain America, the Ghost Rider, and Sabretooth.

Strucker

Baron Strucker, real name Wolfgang von Strucker, fictional character created for Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born

In August 2007, Marvel released the The Dark Tower: Gunslinger's Guidebook written by Robin Furth and Anthony Flamini.

The Hour of the Dragon

In 1974, the story was adapted by Roy Thomas, Gil Kane and John Buscema in Marvel Comic's Giant-Size Conan #1-4 and Savage Sword of Conan #8, 10.

The Magnetic Telescope

The story begins with Clark Kent and Lois Lane, along with the entire town, observing a scientist's (who resembles Captain Marvel's archnemesis Doctor Sivana) demonstration of his magnetic telescope.

Tomomi Kahala

After Komuro, Kahala worked with a variety of producers at Warner Music Japan, such as American Andy Marvel (Diana King, Jessica Simpson) and recorded songs by Gary Carolla (N Sync) and Vincent Degiorgio (N Sync, Atomic Kitten, Love, Inc., Mink, Nakano Mori Band) which appeared on her albums One Fine Day and Love Again, released in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

Ultimate Marvel

In January 2014, Marvel announced that following the conclusion of the Ultimate Marvel miniseries Cataclysm in April 2014, and coinciding with the Marvel Universe All-New Marvel NOW! launch, three new Ultimate series will debut from April 2014, under the banner Ultimate Marvel NOW!.

Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk

On September 10, 2013 the series was adapted into a Marvel Knights animated motion comic and released on DVD by Shout! Factory.

Vanth Dreadstar

After 26 issues, creator Jim Starlin decided to take the series to a new publisher out of dissatisfaction with Marvel's royalty reporting and promotion.

Vincente

Vincente Cimetta, mutant villain from the Generation X title belonging to Marvel Comics

Winter Soldier

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, an upcoming 2014 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters

Yellow Claw

The Yellow Claw appears as a character in the 2006–2007 Marvel series Agents of Atlas.


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