Marvel Entertainment, LLC , a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media. For more information visit marvel.com. © 2021 MARVEL Robert K. Elder is the author of fourteen books and a longtime pop-culture writer. He has written about comic books for the New York Times , Chicago Tribune , and the Comics Journal , among other outlets. His books include Hemingway in Comics and The Mixtape of My Life .

He carries a surprisingly heavy miniature version of Thor's hammer, Mjölnir, on his keychain.