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The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features.
Certain places feature prominently in the Marvel Universe, some real-life, others fictional and unique to the setting; fictional places may appear in conjunction with, or even within, real-world locales.
Many Marvel Comics stories are set in New York City, where the publishing company is based. [1]
New York is the site of many places important to superheroes:
New York is a center of industry, serving as the headquarters for a few Marvel companies:
The following prisons are located in outer space:
The Earth of Marvel's main continuity (or "Earth-616") has contained a number of fictional hidden native humanoid races. Many of these races are genetic offshoots of Homo sapiens or a related ancestor. However, there are also some races that were actually created from the many animals or other lifeforms on Earth. The methods to create these beings vary from scientific to magical and their creators from aliens to humans to demons.
A list of these races includes:
Atlantis isn't the only civilization of the homo mermanus, Namor's kind. There is also Lemuria, the kingdom in the Pacific Ocean [...]. Lemurians further differentiate from Atlanteans with their green skin [...]