Marvel Comics is an American company that publishes the noted comics "Spider-Man", "Iron Man", "X-Men", "Galaxy Guardians" and plenty of others. The fictional universe within which mag characters live is Earth-616.
The history of comics (as you recognize, land word comic suggests that "funny") begins within the XVI-XVII centuries. For the primary time, they appeared in Western Europe and were funny stories within the footage.
In America, the primary mag came out at the tip of the XIX century. within the twenty years of the XX century...