Editing Marvel Comics (section)

==Weird Connections and Other Trivia==
While DC comics has their fair share of weird connections (did you know about [[wikipedia:The Adventures of Superman (radio series)#“Clan_of_the_Fiery_Cross”|the time Superman more or less successfully fought the KKK in ''real life'']]?), Marvel probably has more. In part because of their more or less open-to-just-about-anybody sprawling merchandising empire and various attempts to make money, they had a ''lot'' of weird connections to various other things. Here are a few:

*The Tokusatsu genre owes a lot to various Marvel projects: The Japanese version of Spider-Man, for example, was the first Tokusatsu show to feature a giant robot, and Marvel did some licensing that resulted in them being credited in three seasons of ''Super Sentai'' (better known as the series that would later be transformed into Power Rangers).

*There was a fully licensed Star Trek/X-Men novel entitled "Planet X", notable primarily for making the "gee, Captain Picard sure looks like Professor X" joke ''before'' Patrick Stewart was cast as Xavier. Otherwise, it's as stupid as it sounds.

*One particular X-Men character, Wolverine, became so well-known for gratuitous cameos that [[TVTropes]] named their page on "Brief cameos of a popular character that are heavily advertised but amount to nothing" "Wolverine Publicity".

*She-Hulk and Spider-Woman owe their origin in the real world to the Bionic Woman tv show, mixed with Marvel's own TV versions of Hulk and Spider-man going on at the time. After the success of the Bionic Woman (a spin-off of The Seven Million Dollar Man), it was quickly realized by Marvel's lawyers that the producers of these TV series could invent their own female versions of Hulk and Spider-man, and not pay Marvel a cent for such a spin-off series, so two female versions of the Hulk and Spider-man were quickly created to prevent such an eventually. She-Hulk stuck around, Spider-woman did not.

*You know those [[wikipedia:Ankle bracelet monitor|ankle bracelet monitors]] that prisoners on release of one sort or another wear? The Judge who more or less invented them was directly inspired by a newspaper Spider-Man storyline involving the web-slinger having an armlet forcibly attached by the Kingpin to always know his location (and thus, alert his minions).
** Side note: One of the most baffling parts of the Marvel publishing empire is the newspaper version of Spider-Man. Starting in the late 70s, there still exists a newspaper comic version of Spider-man, mainly notable for being (as of 2020) the only ongoing work where Peter Parker is still married to Mary Jane Watson. If you've never read an "action" newspaper strip, think about how much action you can fit in three or four panels, each roughly the size of a postage stamp, and then add in that you need to have a recap every single day of what happened yesterday, since people frequently miss a day (admittedly, only a few words, but it still makes things that much weirder), an even stricter "Status Quo is God" requirement than most TV SitComs, a need to cater to the lowest common denominator, and strict restrictions on what kind of action can be shown, and you get some very deep weirdness in both structure and storytelling. Newspaper Spider-Man was no exception to this trend. Currently in permanent reruns (a lot of newspaper comics do this rather than get fully cancelled, as sometimes they get revived) as of 2019.