Brands

DC is one of the oldest and most significant entertainment brands in history, originating as National Allied Publications in 1934 when cavalry veteran and pulp writer Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun, the first all-original comic book. The initials DC stand for Detective Comics, the title of the comic series first published in 1937. DC Comics…

The Walt Disney Company is one of the largest entertainment and media conglomerates in the world, founded October 16, 1923 by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Los Angeles. What began as an animation studio producing short films became the most recognizable entertainment brand in history, spanning…

LEGO is a brand of plastic interlocking construction toys manufactured by The LEGO Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. Founded as a wooden toy company in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the name comes from the Danish phrase leg godt meaning play well. The plastic interlocking brick was introduced in 1949 and…

Marvel is one of the most significant entertainment brands in history, originating as Timely Comics in October 1939 when publisher Martin Goodman created a comic book division to capitalize on the growing superhero genre. The first issue, Marvel Comics number 1, sold 80,000 copies and introduced the Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner. A teenage…

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company was originally established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 microcomputer, then rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market through MS-DOS and the Microsoft Windows line.…

SpongeBob SquarePants is an American multimedia franchise created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg, owned by Nickelodeon, a division of Paramount Global. The franchise began with the eponymous animated television series which premiered May 1, 1999 and has run for sixteen seasons, making it the longest-running children's animated series in American history as…

Xbox is Microsoft's video game brand and product line, first introduced November 15, 2001 with the launch of the original Xbox console. The name was originally an abbreviation of DirectX Box, a reference to Microsoft's DirectX graphics API. Xbox encompasses a line of gaming consoles, the Xbox Game Studios publishing and development group, the Xbox…