It featured Mister Fantastic who could stretch like rubber, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the monstrous Thing. In 1961, with Cold War tensions rising, they unleashed Marvel’s first super squad, the Fantastic Four. After the war, superhero comics went into a slump until Marvel creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby - revered industry geniuses - gave the cast a psychological overhaul. He would famously punch Adolf Hitler in the face and sell a million copies doing it.Ĭharacters like the Whizzer, Miss America and the Destroyer followed, but none matched the success of the earlier figures, the exhibition explains. Their air-and-sea tangle steam-rolled the newsstands, selling nearly 900,000 copies at a dime apiece.Ĭaptain America arrived on the eve of World War II. 1, good guy Human Torch fought villain Namor the Sub-Mariner. This is the exhibition’s last stop in the U.S., as well as the only one in the Southeast, before it heads to Europe, according to Discovery Place. Tickets are timed to admit 50 guests every 15 minutes, Norton says, to avoid backups within. A dedicated fan should budget three hours. Just a casual stroll through the Marvel labyrinth should take no less than 30 minutes. “New shows are demanding this kind of space.” At 12,000 square feet in a vast, new gallery on the North Tryon Street side of the museum, the exhibit far exceeds any in memory. Visitors weave through an immersive soundscape from Depression-era pulp to Hollywood grandeur to video-game evolution to the creative incubator of Disney+.ĭiscovery Place considers “Marvel” a blockbuster exhibition, a once-in-every-three-years show with rare artifacts and broad appeal, says Heather Norton, chief science officer and longtime superhero fan. With an exceptionally sharp thread of narrative at each turn, the exhibit should even appeal to superhero agnostics.
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