Marvel Music

Marvel Music is Marvel Studios's music arm. Marvel Music used to be an imprint of Marvel Comics, and the former music publishing subsidiaries of Marvel Entertainment Group, Mighty Marvel Music Corporation and Marvel Music Group, Inc..

Mighty Group

Mighty Marvel Music Corporation and Marvel Music Group, Inc. (both incorporated on July 29, 1981[1][2]) ) were music publishing subsidiaries of Marvel Entertainment Group that were retained by New World Entertainment when Marvel was sold to Andrews Group in 1989.[3] and were with New World when they were sold to Fox.[4]

Imprint

Marvel Music
Parent company Marvel Comics
Status Discontinued (1995)
Founded 1994 (1994)
Founder Terry Stewart
Headquarters location New York City
Key people
  • Mort Todd (Editor)
  • Karl Bollers
  • (assistant editor)[5]
Publication types Comics
Fiction genres Rock and roll

Marvel Music was a short-lived Marvel Comics imprint published in 1994[6]–1995,[5]

Background

Marvel had previous done some music based comics. The premiere issue of Marvel Comics Super Special, dated simply 1977, featured the rock band Kiss in a 40-page fictional adventure written by Steve Gerber, penciled by John Romita Jr., Alan Weiss, John Buscema, Rich Buckler, and Sal Buscema, which saw the quartet battling Marvel supervillains Mephisto and Doctor Doom.[7] Issue 50 of Marvel Premiere (stand date of October 1979) featured a story, "From the Inside", with Alice Cooper.[5] Neil Gaiman in 1991 was approached by Epic Records on Cooper's behalf to design a "concept record". Gaiman, recalling the Marvel Premiere with Cooper agreed. This record, The Last Temptation was released in 1994. Revolutionary Comics had Rock 'N' Roll Comics series that put out unauthorized-biography of musicians and bands, over which the company was sued at least twice.[5]

History

Marvel President Terry Stewart was looking to expand Marvel beyond the usual superhero fare, "Bible comics, kids comics, comics geared towards girls" were considered.[5] Stewart went with music doing two test runs in 1990 with Cheap Trick: Busted and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E: Coming to Yaa. Then he hired[5] Editor Mort Todd as the imprint's first and only editor.[6] The imprint was launched with Alice Cooper's "The Last Temptation" in June 1994.[6]

Todd check with the marketing department and found that they did not market the graphic novel well, as the original plan was to have the bands sell them at their shows, thus the imprint was not making money. He was infuriated that he let his contract lapse. With Marvel heading into bankruptcy, the imprint was discontinued in 1995.[5]

Titles

These comics featured the life stories of famous musicians and bands, while some were album-oriented mini-dramas, drawn song lyrics or superhero fantasies. All of these comics were made with the band or singers input.[6] The imprint used the square, bound graphic novels as they were consider better price points for bookstores.[5]

Current corporation

Marvel Music, Inc.
Subsidiary
Industry Music
Predecessor Mighty Marvel Music Corporation
and Marvel Music Group, Inc.
Founded September 22, 2005 (2005-09-22)
Products Soundtracks, music publishing
Parent Marvel Studios
(The Walt Disney Studios)
(The Walt Disney Company)

Marvel Music, Inc. is the music publishing and licensing company and subsidiary of Marvel Studios.

Marvel Music is now distributed by Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records.[8]

History

Marvel Music, Inc. was incorporated on September 9, 2005[9] to manage Marvel Studios' and Marvel Animation's filmed music.[10] At the New York ComiCon in 2009, Marvel announced Marvel Music's launch and would begin licensing its music and scores[5] promoted with a Iron Man: Armored Adventures theme song free download cards promo with songs being for sale on iTunes.[11]

Beginning in 2012 with the release of Avengers Assemble, Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records label began distributing Marvel Music's albums. In 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 became the first Marvel Music album to be certified Gold—and subsequently certified Platinum—by the Recording Industry Association of America, as well as the first soundtrack album in history to top the Billboard 200 chart, while consisting entirely of previously released songs.[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Entity Search: Mighty Marvel Music Corporation file number 0919369". Department of State: Division of Corporations. State of Delaware. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Entity Search: Marvel Music Group, Inc. file number 0919368". Department of State: Division of Corporations. State of Delaware. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "New World Entertainment Inc. Completes Sale of Marvel for $82.5 Million; Company Begins 1989 With Busy Schedule and Further Debt Reduction". PR Newswire. January 25, 1989. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "List of Principal Subsidiaries of the Company". Annual Report· Form 10-K · For 6/30/99. secinfo.com. p. 3. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Grossman, David (March 12, 2014). "Marvel Music's Strange, Brief, and Totally Doomed Rock-Comics Revolution". Spin Magazine. SpinMusic. Retrieved May 21, 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Considine, J.D. (July 10, 1994). "Comics That Rock -- It's Not The New Music Video - Yet - But The Comic Book Has Become A Hot Marketing Tool For Top Names In Rock,". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  7. ↑ Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. p. 180. ISBN 978-0756641238. Marvel Super Special #1 featured the rock band Kiss as super heroes battling Mephisto and Doctor Doom, aided by the Avengers, the Defenders, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four.
  8. ↑ Kleinman, Maria (March 28, 2013). "Heroes Fall Album Of Music Inspired By Marvel's "Iron Man 3" Set For Release April 30" (Press release). Disney Music Group Publicity. PR Newswire. Retrieved December 30, 2013 – via American City Business Journals.
  9. ↑ "Entity Search: Marvel Music, Inc. file number 4034835". Department of State: Division of Corporations. State of Delaware. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  10. ↑ "Patrick Doyle Thor [B.O.F] , album, ecouter, CD, Music Story". Music Story. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  11. ↑ Super Hero Soundtracks Are Coming to iTunes. Marvel Entertainment. Accessed on December 30, 2014.
  12. ↑ Wood, Mikael (August 13, 2014). "'Guardians of the Galaxy' soundtrack shoots to No. 1 on Billboard 200". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Marvel Music And Hollywood Records' Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 Soundtrack Is Certified Gold". PR Newsire. September 25, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
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