Marvel_Comics

qas: question: Captain America, Thor and Ultron all inhabit what fictional milieu?
answers: text: Marvel Universe
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question: Fictional placements within this setting are modeled off what?
answers: text: real-life cities
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question: Spiderman's fictional city is based off what real American location?
answers: text: New York
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question: What Marvel character's stories are set in an area resembling the American Southwest?
answers: text: Hulk
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question: Which two groups of Marvel crimefighters are based in a fictional version of New York City?
answers: text: the Fantastic Four, the Avengers
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question: Where is the character of Ant-Man based?
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question: Where is Marvel located?
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question: Which super villain lives in the American southwest?
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question: What were many real-life locations based off of?
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question: Which group fought the Fantastic Four in New York City?
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question: Writer Geoff Boucher compared DC to what dull 1960s crooner?
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question: What did Marvel Comics replace the Marvel Rating System with?
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question: Who originally founded Marvel Comics?
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context: Marvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, such teams as the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans and the X-Men, and antagonists such as Doctor Doom, The Enchantress, Green Goblin, Ultron, Doctor Octopus, Thanos, Magneto and Loki. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities. Characters such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Daredevil and Doctor Strange are based in New York City, whereas the X-Men have historically been based in Salem Center, New York and Hulk's stories often have been set in the American Southwest.

qas: question: Who originally founded Marvel Comics?
answers: text: Martin Goodman
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question: What was the original name of Marvel Comics?
answers: text: Timely Publications
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question: When was Marvel founded?
answers: text: 1939
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question: In what city was Marvel based when it was founded?
answers: text: New York City
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question: What was Abraham Goodman's official title when Marvel was founded?
answers: text: publisher
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question: When was Martin Goodman born?
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question: What was Timely Publications originally called?
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question: Who created the western pulp genre?
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question: When did Timely Publications become Marvel Comics?
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question: Who decided to rename Timely Publications to Marvel Comics?
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question: What caused Image Comics to discontinue the Marvel crossover?
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question: What is an example of a bad practice eliminated under Shooter's regime at Marvel?
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question: What anniversary did Epic Comics celebrate in 1986?
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context: Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a pulp magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. Launching his new line from his existing company's offices at 330 West 42nd Street, New York City, he officially held the titles of editor, managing editor, and business manager, with Abraham Goodman officially listed as publisher.

qas: question: What was the cover date on Marvel Comics #1?
answers: text: Oct. 1939
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question: Who was Marvel/Timely's first true full-time editor?
answers: text: Joe Simon
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question: Besides Simon, who co-created Captain America?
answers: text: Jack Kirby
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question: What is the name of the character created by Carl Burgos?
answers: text: the Human Torch
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question: In what issue was Namor, The Sub-Mariner introduced?
answers: text: Marvel Comics #1
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question: How many copies did the first printing of Marvel Comics #1 sell?
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question: What year did Joe Simon join Timely?
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question: When was Funnies, Inc. founded?
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question: What was Bill Everett's job title?
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question: When did Goodman disband Timely Comics, Inc?
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question: Who was Daredevil's main antagonist?
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question: What comic book series did stories related to this issue appear in?
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question: What real-life president was featured in a Spider-Man comic?
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context: Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics #1 (cover dated Oct. 1939), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first appearances of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features. The issue was a great success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined, nearly 900,000 copies. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc., Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. The company's first true editor, writer-artist Joe Simon, teamed with artist and emerging industry notable Jack Kirby to create one of the first patriotically themed superheroes, Captain America, in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). It, too, proved a hit, with sales of nearly one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc., beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941.

qas: question: What cartoon humorist did some high profile stories for Marvel in the early years?
answers: text: Basil Wolverton
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question: What was the name of the humorous feature penned by Wolverton?
answers: text: "Powerhouse Pepper"
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question: What duo of kid-themed characters were featured in early Marvel issues?
answers: text: Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal
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question: What early Marvel character may have been envisioned as a female counterpoint to Captain America?
answers: text: Miss America
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question: The most popular early Marvel heroes were collectively and colloquially known as what?
answers: text: "big three"
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question: Which characters matched the success of the big three?
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question: Who created Miss America?
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question: What cartoon was the Destroyer featured in?
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question: What animal characters were featured in Powerhouse Pepper?
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question: Where do the animal comic characters sometimes continue to appear?
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question: What year did Joe Quesada become editor in chief?
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question: What was DC Comic's 1975 convention called?
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question: What Marvel executive helped change the focus of Marvel's stories and characters?
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context: While no other Timely character would achieve the success of these "big three", some notable heroes—many of which continue to appear in modern-day retcon appearances and flashbacks—include the Whizzer, Miss America, the Destroyer, the original Vision, and the Angel. Timely also published one of humor cartoonist Basil Wolverton's best-known features, "Powerhouse Pepper", as well as a line of children's funny-animal comics featuring popular characters like Super Rabbit and the duo Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal.

qas: question: Marvel Comics was part of many entities having what relationship with Timely?
answers: text: shell companies
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question: When were all of Goodman's comic entities officially put under the moniker of Marvel Comics?
answers: text: 1961
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question: By what other name were some Marvel-related comic books published?
answers: text: "A Marvel Magazine"
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question: Under what handle were Marvel's detective fiction comics published?
answers: text: Marvel Mystery Comics
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question: When did Goodman begin partnering with shell companies?
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question: What were the biggest danger to Goodman's business strategy?
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question: When were comics first published under the label Marvel Magazine?
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question: When was the first Marvel Mystery Comic published?
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question: What was the first comic to be published after Goodman formally adopted the name Marvel Comics?
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question: When was the first issue of MAX released?
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question: When did the Marvel Adventures line cease publishing?
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question: Infinite Comics is related to what comics media platform?
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context: Goodman's business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these shell companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55 (May 1944). As well, some comics' covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12 (Winter 1946–47), were labeled "A Marvel Magazine" many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961.

qas: question: Which writer and artist was behind the Sub-Mariner?
answers: text: Bill Everett
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question: What was Marvel's major offshoot with Westerns, war stories, and monster comics called?
answers: text: Atlas
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question: What was Dan DeCarlo's spooky but humorous comic aimed at kids called?
answers: text: Homer the Happy Ghost
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question: DeCarlo also penned a knock-off of what teen comic superstar?
answers: text: Archie Andrews
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question: What was the name of DeCarlo's main character in his humorous teen series?
answers: text: Homer Hooper
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question: When did Atlas launch?
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question: Who ran Atlas?
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question: When did the Archie Andrews comics run?
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question: What company successfully revived several superheroes?
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question: What was another name for the Human Torch?
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question: What are the only two Disney parks allowed to have Marvel characters?
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question: What was the issue date when this superhero team debuted?
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question: During what months did the CCA revise its code?
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context: Atlas, rather than innovate, took a proven route of following popular trends in television and movies—Westerns and war dramas prevailing for a time, drive-in movie monsters another time—and even other comic books, particularly the EC horror line. Atlas also published a plethora of children's and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlo's Homer the Happy Ghost (à la Casper the Friendly Ghost) and Homer Hooper (à la Archie Andrews). Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch (art by Syd Shores and Dick Ayers, variously), the Sub-Mariner (drawn and most stories written by Bill Everett), and Captain America (writer Stan Lee, artist John Romita Sr.). Atlas did not achieve any breakout hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply, and at a passable quality.

qas: question: Marvel's first team of superheroes was known by what alliterative name?
answers: text: The Fantastic Four
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question: What was the issue date when this superhero team debuted?
answers: text: Nov. 1961
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question: What Marvel executive helped change the focus of Marvel's stories and characters?
answers: text: Stan Lee
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question: What is Marvel's best-selling comic?
answers: text: The Amazing Spider-Man
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question: In the Marvel Universe, the public treated conferred what response on the Fantastic Four?
answers: text: celebrity status
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question: Who introduced superheroes marketed primarily towards children?
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question: What superhero team used secret identities?
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question: When was Spider-Man launched?
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question: What did most comic superheros focus on that Marvel did not?
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question: What was Marvel's least successful book?
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question: What comic book series did stories related to this issue appear in?
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question: When was the first issue of MAX released?
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question: What movie features the characters Baymax and Hiro?
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context: In 1961, writer-editor Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics by introducing superheroes designed to appeal to more all-ages readers than the predominantly child audiences of the medium. Modern Marvel's first superhero team, the titular stars of The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961), broke convention with other comic book archetypes of the time by squabbling, holding grudges both deep and petty, and eschewing anonymity or secret identities in favor of celebrity status. Subsequently, Marvel comics developed a reputation for focusing on characterization and adult issues to a greater extent than most superhero comics before them, a quality which the new generation of older readers appreciated. This applied to The Amazing Spider-Man title in particular, which turned out to be Marvel's most successful book. Its young hero suffered from self-doubt and mundane problems like any other teenager, something readers could identify with.

qas: question: Who joined with Stan Lee in creating the Fantastic Four?
answers: text: Jack Kirby
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question: What historic era did the Fantastic Four initially inhabit?
answers: text: Cold War
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question: What traditional superhero element did the Fantastic Four initially do without?
answers: text: costumes
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question: None of the Fantastic Four had what hidden element so common to other superheroes?
answers: text: secret identities
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question: The emphasis on relatable settings and character motivations in Marvel's 1960s comics is called what?
answers: text: "superheroes in the real world"
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question: What tradition did Marvel embrace?
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question: What historic era was Marvel trying to eschew?
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question: Who wrote comics that focused on secret identities and costumes?
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question: Choosing to follow comic book tradition and tropes was called what?
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question: What war was Jack Kirby in?
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question: What year did Joe Quesada become editor in chief?
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question: What was Marvel's least successful book?
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question: How many books did Marvel license with Pocket Books?
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context: Lee and freelance artist and eventual co-plotter Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four originated in a Cold War culture that led their creators to revise the superhero conventions of previous eras to better reflect the psychological spirit of their age. Eschewing such comic-book tropes as secret identities and even costumes at first, having a monster as one of the heroes, and having its characters bicker and complain in what was later called a "superheroes in the real world" approach, the series represented a change that proved to be a great success.

qas: question: What magazine featured two Marvel Characters in a college campus heroes feature?
answers: text: Esquire
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question: What two Marvel characters were part of that campus heroes section?
answers: text: Spider-Man and the Hulk
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question: Which publisher is Marvel's biggest rival?
answers: text: DC Comics
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question: Writer Geoff Boucher compared DC to what dull 1960s crooner?
answers: text: Pat Boone
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question: What two real life persons were also part of the magazine feature alongside fictional Marvel characters?
answers: text: John F. Kennedy and Bob Dylan
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question: When did Esquire start?
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question: When did Geoff Boucher join Marvel?
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question: Who compared DC comics to the Beatles?
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question: What real-life president was featured in a Spider-Man comic?
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question: Which DC superhero was listed in Esquire's top 28 college campus heroes?
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question: What was Timely Publications originally called?
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question: When was the first Marvel-sponsored comics convention?
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question: What tradition did Marvel embrace?
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context: All of these elements struck a chord with the older readers, such as college-aged adults, and they successfully gained in a way not seen before. In 1965, Spider-Man and the Hulk were both featured in Esquire magazine's list of 28 college campus heroes, alongside John F. Kennedy and Bob Dylan. In 2009 writer Geoff Boucher reflected that, "Superman and DC Comics instantly seemed like boring old Pat Boone; Marvel felt like The Beatles and the British Invasion. It was Kirby's artwork with its tension and psychedelia that made it perfect for the times—or was it Lee's bravado and melodrama, which was somehow insecure and brash at the same time?"

qas: question: What actual US cities have fictional equivalents in Marvel's comic milieu?
answers: text: New York, Los Angeles and Chicago
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question: What Marvel hero is related to a tiny insect?
answers: text: Ant-Man
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question: The shared milieu inhabited by all Marvel heroes and villains is known as?
answers: text: the Marvel Universe
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question: Which two comic book titles were the precursors to the widening of this overall setting?
answers: text: Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four
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question: What fictional universe was Los Angeles based on?
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question: Who was Daredevil's main antagonist?
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question: What city does Black Panther live in?
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question: Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four were published after what comic?
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question: What are the real-life cities New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago called?
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question: Who was the founder of the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation?
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question: What was another name for the Human Torch?
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question: What series was set in the past?
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context: In addition to Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, Marvel began publishing further superhero titles featuring such heroes and antiheroes as the Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Inhumans, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel and the Silver Surfer, and such memorable antagonists as Doctor Doom, Magneto, Galactus, Loki, the Green Goblin, and Doctor Octopus, all existing in a shared reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

qas: question: How many comics did Marvel sell during 1968?
answers: text: 50 million
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question: What company was distributing Marvel's titles at that point?
answers: text: Independent News
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question: To whom was Marvel sold in 1968?
answers: text: the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation
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question: What wholly-owned affiliate of this company did Marvel operate within?
answers: text: Magazine Management Company
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question: What distributor took over Marvel's titles in 1969?
answers: text: Curtis Circulation Company
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question: How many comic books had Goodman sold by 1968?
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question: In what year did Independent News and Goodman first make their distribution arrangement?
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question: What publishing businesses did Goodman sell besides Marvel Comics?
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question: Who was the founder of the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation?
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question: Who did Goodman switch distribution to in 1968?
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question: What caused distributors to thrive in the mid-90s?
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question: What fictional universe was Los Angeles based on?
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question: What war was Jack Kirby in?
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context: In 1968, while selling 50 million comic books a year, company founder Goodman revised the constraining distribution arrangement with Independent News he had reached under duress during the Atlas years, allowing him now to release as many titles as demand warranted. Late that year he sold Marvel Comics and his other publishing businesses to the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation, which continued to group them as the subsidiary Magazine Management Company, with Goodman remaining as publisher. In 1969, Goodman finally ended his distribution deal with Independent by signing with Curtis Circulation Company.

qas: question: What government agency asked Marvel to do a series of stories to publicize an issue?
answers: text: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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question: What issue was Marvel asked to tackle for this agency?
answers: text: drug abuse
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question: What comic book series did stories related to this issue appear in?
answers: text: Spider-Man
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question: What industry censorship and standards organization tried to block publication of this series?
answers: text: Comics Code Authority
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question: What were the issue dates of the three-episode series on this public health issue?
answers: text: May–July 1971
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question: When did the Comics Code Authority request Marvel to do a comic on drug abuse?
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question: Who is the editor-in-chief of the Comics Code Authority?
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question: What self-censorship board approved the controversial Spider-Man comic?
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question: What government-led department refused to approve the Spider-Man story? 
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question: During what months did the CCA revise its code?
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question: What noted artist and writer made brought Daredevil to the forefront during the 1980s?
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question: Who created Miss America?
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question: The emphasis on relatable settings and character motivations in Marvel's 1960s comics is called what?
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context: In 1971, the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare approached Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee to do a comic book story about drug abuse. Lee agreed and wrote a three-part Spider-Man story portraying drug use as dangerous and unglamorous. However, the industry's self-censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, refused to approve the story because of the presence of narcotics, deeming the context of the story irrelevant. Lee, with Goodman's approval, published the story regardless in The Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (May–July 1971), without the Comics Code seal. The market reacted well to the storyline, and the CCA subsequently revised the Code the same year.

qas: question: What situation allowed Marvel to expand into more adult-themed genre stories?
answers: text: the updating of the Comics Code
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question: What were two of Marvel's comic heroes in fantasy, swords and magic settings?
answers: text: Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja
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question: What waterfowl character had his own satire series of comic books?
answers: text: Howard the Duck
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question: In what year did Marvel's sales overtake rival DC?
answers: text: 1972
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question: How were some of Marvel's genre titles published in the 1970s?
answers: text: larger-format black and white magazines, under its Curtis Magazines imprint
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question: What prevented Marvel from creating more adult-themed comics?
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question: What did Marvel do that failed to be successful after the Comics Code was updated?
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question: When did DC Comics usurp Marvel's position as the top comics company?
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question: How much did DC lower the price of its comics by?
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question: What was DC's horror series called?
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question: What TV network shares a parent with Marvel?
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question: The failure of what high profile business initiative caused Marvel to approach Diamond?
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question: When did Disney and LLC stop publishing Star Wars comics?
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context: A series of new editors-in-chief oversaw the company during another slow time for the industry. Once again, Marvel attempted to diversify, and with the updating of the Comics Code achieved moderate to strong success with titles themed to horror (The Tomb of Dracula), martial arts, (Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu), sword-and-sorcery (Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja), satire (Howard the Duck) and science fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey, "Killraven" in Amazing Adventures, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and, late in the decade, the long-running Star Wars series). Some of these were published in larger-format black and white magazines, under its Curtis Magazines imprint. Marvel was able to capitalize on its successful superhero comics of the previous decade by acquiring a new newsstand distributor and greatly expanding its comics line. Marvel pulled ahead of rival DC Comics in 1972, during a time when the price and format of the standard newsstand comic were in flux. Goodman increased the price and size of Marvel's November 1971 cover-dated comics from 15 cents for 36 pages total to 25 cents for 52 pages. DC followed suit, but Marvel the following month dropped its comics to 20 cents for 36 pages, offering a lower-priced product with a higher distributor discount.

qas: question: What new venture did Marvel's founder begin after leaving the company in the 1970s?
answers: text: Seaboard Periodicals
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question: What former Marvel title imprint did Goodman attempt to revive?
answers: text: Atlas Comics
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question: What new retail outlet came on board at the end of the 1970s to rival newsstands for comic sales?
answers: text: comic book stores
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question: How long was the 1970s revival of Atlas Comics in business?
answers: text: a year and a half
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question: During what era did newsstand distribution begin to tail off markedly for Marvel?
answers: text: the mid-1970s
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question: What company partnered with Marvel in 1974?
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question: When was Howard the Duck launched?
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question: What change in market distribution negatively affected Marvel near the end of the decade?
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question: How much later were specialty comic book stores reselling titles?
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question: The mid-1970s brought what favourable change for Marvel?
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question: When was the first issue of MAX released?
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question: What TV network shares a parent with Marvel?
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question: How many titles run on the Marvel Universe TV block?
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context: Goodman, now disconnected from Marvel, set up a new company called Seaboard Periodicals in 1974, reviving Marvel's old Atlas name for a new Atlas Comics line, but this lasted only a year and a half. In the mid-1970s a decline of the newsstand distribution network affected Marvel. Cult hits such as Howard the Duck fell victim to the distribution problems, with some titles reporting low sales when in fact the first specialty comic book stores resold them at a later date.[citation needed] But by the end of the decade, Marvel's fortunes were reviving, thanks to the rise of direct market distribution—selling through those same comics-specialty stores instead of newsstands.

qas: question: What was Marvel's self-hosted comic book convention called?
answers: text: Marvelcon
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question: What artist's return to Marvel was announced at this event?
answers: text: Jack Kirby
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question: What Marvel character was specifically created to appeal to the UK market?
answers: text: Captain Britain
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question: When was the first Marvel-sponsored comics convention?
answers: text: spring 1975
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question: When did Marvel's British-themed superhero first appear?
answers: text: October 1976
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question: Who did Jack Kirby announce was returning to Marvel in 1975?
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question: What marvel character was announced at the first Marvelcon?
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question: What was DC Comic's 1975 convention called?
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question: Who created most of DC's star characters?
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question: When did Marvel become licensed to distribute in the UK? 
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question: What Marvel hero is related to a tiny insect?
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question: What caused distributors to thrive in the mid-90s?
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question: Who wrote for Star Comics?
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context: Marvel held its own comic book convention, Marvelcon '75, in spring 1975, and promised a Marvelcon '76. At the 1975 event, Stan Lee used a Fantastic Four panel discussion to announce that Jack Kirby, the artist co-creator of most of Marvel's signature characters, was returning to Marvel after having left in 1970 to work for rival DC Comics. In October 1976, Marvel, which already licensed reprints in different countries, including the UK, created a superhero specifically for the British market. Captain Britain debuted exclusively in the UK, and later appeared in American comics.

qas: question: Who took over as head of Marvel in 1978?
answers: text: Jim Shooter
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question: What is an example of a bad practice eliminated under Shooter's regime at Marvel?
answers: text: repeatedly missed deadlines
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question: What noted artist and writer made brought Daredevil to the forefront during the 1980s?
answers: text: Frank Miller
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question: What team of artist and writer helped popularize the Uncanny X-Men line of comics in the 1980s?
answers: text: Chris Claremont and John Byrne
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question: Secret Wars was an early example of what Marvel comics story trope?
answers: text: crossover story arcs
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question: What issue did Shooter cause when he started at Marvel?
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question: When did Chris Claremont become editor-in-chief?
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question: When did New Universe become successful?
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question: What anniversary did Epic Comics celebrate in 1986?
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question: Who wrote for Star Comics?
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question: When was Spider-Man launched?
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question: What was Marvel's least successful book?
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question: The failure of what high profile business initiative caused Marvel to approach Diamond?
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context: In 1978, Jim Shooter became Marvel's editor-in-chief. Although a controversial personality, Shooter cured many of the procedural ills at Marvel, including repeatedly missed deadlines. During Shooter's nine-year tenure as editor-in-chief, Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men and Frank Miller's run on Daredevil became critical and commercial successes. Shooter brought Marvel into the rapidly evolving direct market, institutionalized creator royalties, starting with the Epic Comics imprint for creator-owned material in 1982; introduced company-wide crossover story arcs with Contest of Champions and Secret Wars; and in 1986 launched the ultimately unsuccessful New Universe line to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Marvel Comics imprint. Star Comics, a children-oriented line differing from the regular Marvel titles, was briefly successful during this period.

qas: question: What 1990s comic line featured futuristic, sci-fi stories?
answers: text: 2099 line
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question: What was the name of the specialty comics line created by Clive Barker for Marvel?
answers: text: Razorline
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question: In what year did Marvel introduce trading cards based on their characters?
answers: text: 1990
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question: What trading card company did Marvel team up with to license these trading cards?
answers: text: SkyBox International
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question: What was affected by the increasing use at Marvel of crossover stories between comic characters?
answers: text: overall continuity of the fictional Marvel Universe
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question: What series was set in the past?
is_impossible: yes

question: What commercially successful comic did Clive Barker create?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was SkyBox International launched?
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question: What marvel character was featured on the first collectible trading card?
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question: When did comic book sales begin to decline?
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question: Who introduced superheroes marketed primarily towards children?
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question: What is an example of a bad practice eliminated under Shooter's regime at Marvel?
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question: What was DC Comic's 1975 convention called?
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context: Marvel earned a great deal of money and recognition during the comic book boom of the early 1990s, launching the successful 2099 line of comics set in the future (Spider-Man 2099, etc.) and the creatively daring though commercially unsuccessful Razorline imprint of superhero comics created by novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker. In 1990, Marvel began selling Marvel Universe Cards with trading card maker SkyBox International. These were collectible trading cards that featured the characters and events of the Marvel Universe. The 1990s saw the rise of variant covers, cover enhancements, swimsuit issues, and company-wide crossovers that affected the overall continuity of the fictional Marvel Universe

qas: question: What studio helped to relaunch and revamp classic marvel teams The Fantastic Four and the Avengers?
answers: text: Image Comics
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question: What two Marvel veterans founded Image?
answers: text: Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld
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question: How was the setting for the Image versions of Marvel characters different from the official comics?
answers: text: a parallel universe with a history distinct from the mainstream
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question: How long did the Image run of Marvel characters last?
answers: text: a one-year run
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question: What three titles were part of the darker, grimmer Marvel Knights comics?
answers: text: the Inhumans, Black Panther and Daredevil
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question: Who created the Avengers?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was Image Comics founded?
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question: What year did Joe Quesada become editor in chief?
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question: How long did Marvel Knights run for?
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question: What caused Image Comics to discontinue the Marvel crossover?
is_impossible: yes

question: In 2005, Marvel dropped it's own publishing rights for novelization and instead partnered with what publisher?
is_impossible: yes

question: What 1990s comic line featured futuristic, sci-fi stories?
is_impossible: yes

question: What marvel character was featured on the first collectible trading card?
is_impossible: yes
context: In 1996, Marvel had some of its titles participate in "Heroes Reborn", a crossover that allowed Marvel to relaunch some of its flagship characters such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, and outsource them to the studios of two of the former Marvel artists turned Image Comics founders, Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld. The relaunched titles, which saw the characters transported to a parallel universe with a history distinct from the mainstream Marvel Universe, were a solid success amidst a generally struggling industry, but Marvel discontinued the experiment after a one-year run and returned the characters to the Marvel Universe proper. In 1998, the company launched the imprint Marvel Knights, taking place within Marvel continuity; helmed by soon-to-become editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, it featured tough, gritty stories showcasing such characters as the Inhumans, Black Panther and Daredevil.

qas: question: What channel did Marvel buy to self-distribute its own comics in the 1990s?
answers: text: Heroes World Distribution
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question: When did Marvel purchase this distribution network?
answers: text: 1994
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question: Exclusive deals for distributing comics during the 1990s left this company as the only unaffiliated one.
answers: text: Diamond Comic Distributors Inc
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question: What year did Diamond Comic Distributors team up with Marvel?
answers: text: 1997
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question: The failure of what high profile business initiative caused Marvel to approach Diamond?
answers: text: Marvel's Heroes World
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question: What was the only North American distribution company to go under?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did Diamond Comic Distributors part ways with Marvel?
is_impossible: yes

question: What caused distributors to thrive in the mid-90s?
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question: When was Marvel's Heroes World declared a financial success?
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question: When was Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. founded?
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question: What series on this network was given a Marvel graphic novel?
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question: What was the joint line of comics owned by LLC and Marvel called?
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question: When did Marvel join the Comics Code Authority?
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context: In late 1994, Marvel acquired the comic book distributor Heroes World Distribution to use as its own exclusive distributor. As the industry's other major publishers made exclusive distribution deals with other companies, the ripple effect resulted in the survival of only one other major distributor in North America, Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. In early 1997, when Marvel's Heroes World endeavor failed, Diamond also forged an exclusive deal with Marvel—giving the company its own section of its comics catalog Previews.

qas: question: What was the business state of Marvel by 2000?
answers: text: bankruptcy
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question: When did Marvel withdraw from the Comics Code Authority?
answers: text: 2001
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question: What in-house standards system did Marvel replace the Comics Code with?
answers: text: Marvel Rating System
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question: What was the first book published under this new ratings system?
answers: text: X-Force #119
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question: What was the name of the adult themed comics imprint for Marvel with more explicit content?
answers: text: MAX
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question: When did Marvel Comics file for bankruptcy?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did Marvel join the Comics Code Authority?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was the first issue of MAX released?
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question: What did Marvel Comics replace the Marvel Rating System with?
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question: What age bracket was Marvel Adventures designed for?
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question: When was the first issue of MAX released?
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question: Where is Marvel located?
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question: What superhero team used secret identities?
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context: With the new millennium, Marvel Comics emerged from bankruptcy and again began diversifying its offerings. In 2001, Marvel withdrew from the Comics Code Authority and established its own Marvel Rating System for comics. The first title from this era to not have the code was X-Force #119 (October 2001). Marvel also created new imprints, such as MAX (an explicit-content line) and Marvel Adventures (developed for child audiences). In addition, the company created an alternate universe imprint, Ultimate Marvel, that allowed the company to reboot its major titles by revising and updating its characters to introduce to a new generation.

qas: question: What entertainment company purchased Marvel at the end of the 2000s?
answers: text: The Walt Disney Company
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question: When was the sale of Marvel to this entertainment conglomerate announced?
answers: text: August 31, 2009
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question: What was the sale price of Marvel?
answers: text: $4 billion or $4.2 billion
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question: What is the readership market share enjoyed by Marvel and DC comics?
answers: text: 80%
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question: In 2010, Marvel switched to what distributor for bookstore comic book sales?
answers: text: Hachette Distribution Services
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question: What did Marvel Entertainment purchase in 2009?
is_impossible: yes

question: How much did Disney buy DC for?
is_impossible: yes

question: What percentage of the American comic-book market did Marvel account for?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did Marvel switch to Diamond Book Distributors?
is_impossible: yes

question: How much did DC Comics shareholder receive as a result of the Marvel-Disney deal?
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question: What are two new titles under the Marvel NOW! line of comics?
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question: None of the Fantastic Four had what hidden element so common to other superheroes?
is_impossible: yes

question: What year did Joe Simon join Timely?
is_impossible: yes
context: On August 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company announced a deal to acquire Marvel Comics' parent corporation, Marvel Entertainment, for $4 billion or $4.2 billion, with Marvel shareholders to receive $30 and 0.745 Disney shares for each share of Marvel they own. As of 2008, Marvel and its major, longtime competitor DC Comics shared over 80% of the American comic-book market. As of September 2010, Marvel switched its bookstores distribution company from Diamond Book Distributors to Hachette Distribution Services.

qas: question: When did the Marvel Adventures line cease publishing?
answers: text: March 2012
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question: Infinite Comics is related to what comics media platform?
answers: text: digital comics
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question: What are two new titles under the Marvel NOW! line of comics?
answers: text: Uncanny Avengers and All-New X-Men
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question: Marvel NOW!, Infinite Comics, and Marvel AR are under the umbrella of what in house business endeavor?
answers: text: Marvel ReEvolution
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question: What does the AR in Marvel AR stand for?
answers: text: augmented reality
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question: When did Marvel launch Marvel Adventures?
is_impossible: yes

question: How many titles run on the Marvel Universe TV block?
is_impossible: yes

question: What titles were released with Marvel AR?
is_impossible: yes

question: When was Marvel NOW! canceled?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who joined with Stan Lee in creating the Fantastic Four?
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question: What Marvel movie featured Star-Lord and Gamora?
is_impossible: yes

question: What Disney theme park will become the first to feature Marvel-specific attractions?
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context: Marvel discontinued its Marvel Adventures imprint in March 2012, and replaced them with a line of two titles connected to the Marvel Universe TV block. Also in March, Marvel announced its Marvel ReEvolution initiative that included Infinite Comics, a line of digital comics, Marvel AR, an application software that provides an augmented reality experience to readers and Marvel NOW!, a relaunch of most of the company's major titles with different creative teams. Marvel NOW! also saw the debut of new flagship titles including Uncanny Avengers and All-New X-Men.

qas: question: What TV network shares a parent with Marvel?
answers: text: ABC
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question: What series on this network was given a Marvel graphic novel?
answers: text: Once Upon a Time
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question: What is the Marvel and Disney line of comics called?
answers: text: "Disney Kingdoms"
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question: What was the first title published in that joint line of comics?
answers: text: "Seekers of the Weird"
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question: What movie sci-fi franchise returned to Marvel in 2015?
answers: text: Star Wars
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question: When did Disney and LLC stop publishing Star Wars comics?
is_impossible: yes

question: How many issues was the Once Upon a Time novel?
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question: What was the joint line of comics owned by LLC and Marvel called?
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question: When was the Once Upon a Time novel released?
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question: When did Disney and Marvel announce they were ending joint projects?
is_impossible: yes

question: What caused distributors to thrive in the mid-90s?
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question: The contract with what non-Disney studio prevents some parks from using Marvel characters?
is_impossible: yes

question: When did Geoff Boucher join Marvel?
is_impossible: yes
context: In April 2013, Marvel and other Disney conglomerate components began announcing joint projects. With ABC, a Once Upon a Time graphic novel was announced for publication in September. With Disney, Marvel announced in October 2013 that in January 2014 it would release its first title under their joint "Disney Kingdoms" imprint "Seekers of the Weird", a five-issue miniseries. On January 3, 2014, fellow Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm Limited, LLC announced that as of 2015, Star Wars comics would once again be published by Marvel.

qas: question: What publisher did Marvel first license its characters to for novelization?
answers: text: Bantam Books
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question: What was the first novel published under this deal?
answers: text: The Avengers Battle the Earth Wrecker by Otto Binder
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question: What was the name of the short-lived Marvel novelization book publisher during the 2000s?
answers: text: Marvel Press
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question: In 2005, Marvel dropped it's own publishing rights for novelization and instead partnered with what publisher?
answers: text: Pocket Books
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question: Marvel Press was relaunched in what year?
answers: text: 2011
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question: Who wrote the movie novelizations?
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question: Who wrote the Young Adult novel Mary Jane?
is_impossible: yes

question: How many books did Marvel license with Pocket Books?
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question: What is the name of the company that licensed the majority of marvel comics before 2003?
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question: When did Marvel switch to the Disney Books Group?
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question: Writer Geoff Boucher compared DC to what dull 1960s crooner?
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question: How many comics did Marvel sell during 1968?
is_impossible: yes

question: How long was the 1970s revival of Atlas Comics in business?
is_impossible: yes
context: Marvel first licensed two prose novels to Bantam Books, who printed The Avengers Battle the Earth Wrecker by Otto Binder (1967) and Captain America: The Great Gold Steal by Ted White (1968). Various publishers took up the licenses from 1978 to 2002. Also, with the various licensed films being released beginning in 1997, various publishers put out movie novelizations. In 2003, following publication of the prose young adult novel Mary Jane, starring Mary Jane Watson from the Spider-Man mythos, Marvel announced the formation of the publishing imprint Marvel Press. However, Marvel moved back to licensing with Pocket Books from 2005 to 2008. With few books issued under the imprint, Marvel and Disney Books Group relaunched Marvel Press in 2011 with the Marvel Origin Storybooks line.

qas: question: What Disney theme park will become the first to feature Marvel-specific attractions?
answers: text: Hong Kong Disneyland
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question: Because of a prior contract, what two Disney parks are barred from featuring Marvel characters?
answers: text: Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney
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question: The contract with what non-Disney studio prevents some parks from using Marvel characters?
answers: text: Universal Studios
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question: What Marvel movie featured Star-Lord and Gamora?
answers: text: Guardians of the Galaxy
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question: What movie features the characters Baymax and Hiro?
answers: text: Big Hero 6
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question: What are the only two Disney parks allowed to have Marvel characters?
is_impossible: yes

question: Why is Walt Disney unable to have characters such as Star-Lord appear?
is_impossible: yes

question: What does Universal Studios plan to do with their Marvel contract?
is_impossible: yes

question: What was signed after Disney purchased Marvel?
is_impossible: yes

question: Because of the Universal Studios agreement, which Big Hero 6 characters are off limits for Disney?
is_impossible: yes

question: What publishing businesses did Goodman sell besides Marvel Comics?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who introduced superheroes marketed primarily towards children?
is_impossible: yes

question: Who created Miss America?
is_impossible: yes
context: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts plans on creating original Marvel attractions at their theme parks, with Hong Kong Disneyland becoming the first Disney theme park to feature a Marvel attraction. Due to the licensing agreement with Universal Studios, signed prior to Disney's purchase of Marvel, Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disney are barred from having Marvel characters in their parks. However, this only includes characters Universal is currently using, other characters in their "families" (X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, etc.), and the villains associated with said characters. This clause has allowed Walt Disney World to have meet and greets, merchandise, attractions and more with other Marvel characters not associated with the characters at Islands of Adventures, such as Star-Lord and Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy as well as Baymax and Hiro from Big Hero 6.