Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over 80 years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media. Roy Thomas has been a comic book writer and editor since 1965, primarily for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2011, he currently edits Alter Ego magazine, and writes the online Tarzan strips and the occasional comic book. Thomas is also the author of two definitive histories for Taschen—75 Years of Marvel Comics: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen and The Stan Lee Story. He lives in rural South Carolina. Doaly is a UK-based graphic designer and digital illustrator with a passion for storytelling. His clients include the BBC, Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, WIRED, Sony Playstation, and Image Comics. In recent years he has migrated his skills to comic book covers for properties including Spider-Man, MODOK, X-Men, Marauders, and Radiant Black.