Their air-and-sea tangle steam-rolled the newsstands, selling nearly 900,000 copies at a dime apiece.Ĭaptain America arrived on the eve of World War II. 1, good guy Human Torch fought villain Namor the Sub-Mariner. Marvel’s ups and downsĪ year after Superman took flight in 1938 for rival Action Comics, Marvel’s universe spun up. “Black Panther” costumes are among the 300 original Marvel artifacts at the new Discovery Place exhibit. This is the exhibition’s last stop in the U.S., as well as the only one in the Southeast, before it heads to Europe, according to Discovery Place. Tickets are timed to admit 50 guests every 15 minutes, Norton says, to avoid backups within. A dedicated fan should budget three hours. Just a casual stroll through the Marvel labyrinth should take no less than 30 minutes. “New shows are demanding this kind of space.” At 12,000 square feet in a vast, new gallery on the North Tryon Street side of the museum, the exhibit far exceeds any in memory. Visitors weave through an immersive soundscape from Depression-era pulp to Hollywood grandeur to video-game evolution to the creative incubator of Disney+.ĭiscovery Place considers “Marvel” a blockbuster exhibition, a once-in-every-three-years show with rare artifacts and broad appeal, says Heather Norton, chief science officer and longtime superhero fan. With an exceptionally sharp thread of narrative at each turn, the exhibit should even appeal to superhero agnostics. Green Goblin, Magneto and a murderer’s row of villains lurk in the shadows. So are their tribes: Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy. “Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes” opens Sunday, May 14, and tracks the history of fictional mutants from their lowly roots in pulp comics to cinematic glory and pop culture iconography.Īll the gang is here from Marvel (and even a few competing universes): Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Panther, Human Torch, Wolverine, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Captain Marvel and more. In what is likely the largest exhibition Discovery Place Science has ever hosted – certainly the biggest of this century – human imagination is cast across galactic realms, rival universes and unbound dimensions, all conjured from a wee pencil tip.
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