Marvel
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Marvel is a comic book company founded by Martin Goodman in 1939. They were know for publishing comic books based on Crime, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, war, and Western. In 1961, they published superhero comic books such as X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko were the main people for making a lot of the popular superhero comics. Today, they're still making comics and one the biggest comic book companies along with DC comics and had a lot of TV shows and movies based on their comic books, mainly the superhero genre. There's some references in some of the Homestar Runner toons.
References
- Email superhero name — The email Stiny sends to Strong Bad mentions Spider-Man, one of the popular superheroes Marvel owns.
- Email Comic Book Movie — Strong Bad mentions leather outfits, which that most likely refers to the X-Men films, which were movie adaptions of the Marvel-published comics.
- Email alternate universe — When Strong Bad enters into Strong Badman's universe, he references She-Hulk, who is the cousin to The Incredible Hulk.
- Email mini-golf — On the commentary, Matt mentions Doctor Strange.
- Email hygiene — In the Easter egg, it shows a comic book of The Total Adventures of Strong Badman with a cover that looks close to that of Uncanny X-Men #28.