Marvel was first founded in 1939 by the name Timely Comics. Using superheroes to help motivate soldiers in the war that was going on at the time. Later on in the 1950's they started to notice that the superhero comics started to die out, so they decided to change the name from Timely Comics to Atlas Comics and started to make horror, western, humor, funny animal, men's adventure-drama, giant monster, crime, war comics, and later adding jungle books, romance titles, espionage and even medieval adventure, Bible stories ans sports. Then in the late 50's DC comics started to get very popular off of their comics of the superheroes The Flash, Green Lantern and other Justice League members and soon Atlas Comics turned into Marvel Comics introducing their first superhero team The Fantastic Four. As the years passed they put out more superheroes Like Captain America and Iron Man and making the Avengers.