What make's Marvel character's Marvel?

The Avengers contained a patchwork of characters including Ant-man, Thor, Wasp, Iron Man and briefly the Hulk.  The fourth issue marked the return of Captain America to the Silver Age.  Daredevil, a blind superhero seemed to be another anomaly.  Just as DC Comics super heroes formed an industry archetype (handsome, perfect, and mentally stable), Marvel Comics characters formed an archetype of their own.  Most of these early characters possess similarities. 

Most of these stories involved very intelligent people such as Reed Richards (Fantastic Four), Peter Parker (Spider-man), Hank McCoy (X-men), Bruce Banner (The Hulk) and Henry Pym (Avengers).   Most character’s suffered an accident of some sort involving a little-known circumstance (radiation being the foremost culprit).  Marvel characters were clumsy, awkward, sensitive and prone to becoming angry.  Thus these traits made Marvel Character more relative to the psyche of modern people. 

Equally worthy of mention are other colorful characters such as the Silver Surfer.  First appearing in the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer was an intergalactic traveller.  Another character that came out of a Fantastic Four story was the Black Panther.  Being the first character of Negroid descent, The Black Panther was an African prince named T’challa.  He would not be the last African superhero to emerge from Marvel Comics.  X-Men #6 marked the Silver Age debut of The Submariner.  He, the Silver Surfer and Iron Man were to have individual titles in 1968. 

Stan Lee perpetuated a different routine for making comic books that would be called the “Marvel Method.”  Traditionally a writer would separately draft a script and then an artist would render drawings to accommodate it.   Under Lee’s direction, an artist and a writer would together oversee the art and then the writing would be added to it.  Under this method, artists and writers would be in greater relation with each other.