Marvel Comics Releases 75th Anniversary Celebration Trailer

Marvel Comics are celebrating the 75th anniversary of 1939’s Marvel Comics #1 with a series of events and videos this year, including today’s trailer for Marvel@75 featuring veteran editor Axel Alonso.While Marvel Comics didn’t become truly dominant in superhero fiction until the ’60s, when they changed the face of superheroes with The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, Marvel Comics #1 featured their first foray into the nascent genre, with familiar names like Namor the Sub-Mariner, The Human Torch and The Angel appearing in its pages.75 years later, Marvel’s media empire is such that about 45 seconds of this two-minutes-and-change trailer is spent literally just listening to the company’s Editor-in-Chief rattle off the names of the fan-favorite characters who will get the spotlight in 75th anniversary events throughout 2014.