MARVEL COMICS
[Parent Company]
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
(The Walt Disney Company)
[Founded 1939]
as Timely Comics
[Headquarters Location]
135 W. 50th Street, New York City
.. locations that mirror real-life cities.
[wikipedia]
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THE AVENGERS The Avengers are Earth's foremost major organization of costumed superhuman crimefighters, adventurers and heroes dedicated to safeguarding the world from any threat beyond the power of conventional peacekeeping forces or any which any of them can't handle alone. Founded several months after the incorporation of the hero team Fantastic Four, the Avengers became the first superhuman team to be granted full official government sanctions by the National Security Council of the United States, the General Assembly of the United Nations, and later by the international intelligence/law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D.. |
2008 - UN - MARVEL COLLABORATION ANNOUNCED In 2008, Marvel announced plans to release a series of educational comics the following year in partnership with the United Nations, depicting Spider-Man alongside UN Peacekeeping Forces to highlight UN peacekeeping missions.
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BBC ArticleThe UN recently announced a union with the comic book company, Marvel. |
2008 - Blogger - Jack Central Late last month, the UN announced it would be working with Marvel Comics to develop a comic book for youth set in a fictional war-torn country where superheroes work alongside UNICEF aide workers and UN peacekeepers. http://jackcentral.com/opinion/2008/01/un-enlists-marvel-spider-man-to-improve-image/ |
Perhaps this is old news for most people, but this Spider-man collaboration with the UN is news to me.
What's interesting is the subject matter of the comics overall and how the content of these comics may shape the minds of those being entertained by superheroes saving the day.
The references to government and political entities appear to be standard references (see Avengers above).
The Spider-man and UN announcement made the news in 2008 because in the real world -- and not the Marvel comic book world of heroes and villains -- the UN arranged to collaborate with Marvel, and aimed to distribute Marvel superhero UN mission themed comics to children in the US and beyond.
The UN Partnerships Office said at the time that it was to:
"... inform children about UN humanitarian causes."Children need to know about UN political pursuits (slash humanitarian missions) -- why?
The United Nations organizationAnother supranational political system that does not precisely fit any of the conventional classifications of such systems is the United Nations, a voluntary association of most of the world’s nation-states. Its membership had grown from an original 51 states to more than 190 by the early 21st century. |
Might the UN be motivated to foster passive acceptance in younger generations of an ideal, purely altruistic, UN whose motives and aims shall not be questioned?
Without knowing more about international politics and the workings of humanitarian organisations and their role in international politics, I can't see the big picture.
However, I am highly suspicious of supranational bodies and of humanitarian organisations that play a role on the global political stage.
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