Mystique used to have a lesbian lover named Irene Adler. Marvel wasn’t allowed to portray a gay relationship, so they made them to be friends, but later announced that they were a couple.

In the early 1990’s, Michael Jackson tried to buy Marvel Comics just so that he could play Spider Man in his own produced movie.

Stan Lee who worked for Marvel as a writer for hire sued Marvel in 2005 because he was hurt by Marvel Comics’ decision to keep profits from him over his 60 years with the company.

Venom, the Spider-Man villain was a fan-based concept that Marvel bought for $220.

During the production of the Avengers movie, they couldn’t get the Hulk’s roar to sound just right; so they decided to supplement it with recordings of Lou Ferrigno bellowing as the original Hulk.

There is a Marvel super hero called Squirrel Girl, who once beat Doctor Doom by flooding his aircraft with a swarm of squirrels.

There was a 1995 issue of Punisher called The Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe in which he killed every single Marvel superhero and villain, including himself.

Marvel has a superhero named Throg. He is a frog that has the power of Thor and is in a superhero group called the Pet Avengers.

In 1983, Marvel published a comic about “Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Ham”. He was a “Spider-Pig” named Peter-Porker.

In 1996, Marvel and DC comics created Amalgam Comics that resulted with numerous new characters and spin offs from both DC and Marvel comics.

In 2002, a 4-year-old boy suffering from hearing loss didn’t want to wear a hearing aid because “Super heroes don’t.” To get him to wear his hearing aids, Marvel Comics created a super hero with a hearing aid, “Blue Ear”

There is a Marvel Character called Asbestos Lady, who robbed banks with her accomplices, who (like her) all wore asbestos lined clothing. Asbestos Lady died of cancer.

Marvel’s Deadpool (Wade Wilson) was originally created as a spoof of DC’s Deathstroke (Slade Wilson).

There is a fictional company in the Marvel universe called “Damage Control”. It specializes in cleaning up the mess that superheroes and super villains leave behind.

Spider-man married Mary Jane in 1987, for which Marvel held a publicity event featuring actors dressed like Spider-Man and Mary Jane getting married in Shea Stadium.

Eminem is a character in The Punisher.

Due to strange laws in USA, importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that don’t. Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are mutants and therefore should be exempt from such higher tax.

Iron Man was created by Stan Lee as a challenge to create a hero that no one should like and force people to like him

Darth Vader was inspired by Marvel’s Dr. Doom.

From 1975 to 1996, Marvel had the word “zombies” trademarked.

When the character of Nick Fury was re-introduced into the Ultimate Marvel comics, he was redesigned to resemble Samuel L Jackson, without the actor’s permission to use his image. It wasn’t until Samuel himself saw his resemblance in the comic that he contacted Marvel to secure a role in any future Marvel movies.

In the 1970s, Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel Comics to release the strangest Spiderman comic that discouraged teens from having unprotected sex.