Offices
Located in New York City, Marvel has been successively headquartered in the McGraw-Hill Building, where it originated as Timely Comics in 1939; in suite 1401 of the Empire State Building; at 635 Madison Avenue (the actual location, though the comic books' indicia listed the parent publishing-company's address of 625 Madison Ave.); 575 Madison Avenue; 387 Park Avenue South; 10 East 40th Street; 417 Fifth Avenue; and a 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) space at 135 W. 50th Street.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)