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Marvel Mystery Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics was Timely Comics' flagship anthology (92 issues, 1939–1949), retitled from Marvel Comics #1 and home to the Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner, who staged comics' first crossover battle in #8–9.
Marvel Premier Collection
Marvel Premier Collection is Marvel Comics' compact 6 x 9 inch trade paperback line of classic story reprints at $14.99, launched February 2025 with Daredevil: Born Again as Marvel's answer to DC Compact Comics.
Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions
Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions: Marvel's first limited series (3 issues, 1982), by Gruenwald, Mantlo, Grant and Romita Jr./Layton; Grandmaster vs Death wager for the Collector's life, origin as a shelved 1980 Olympics tie-in.
Marvel Team-Up
Marvel Team-Up is a Marvel Comics series running 150 issues from 1972 to 1985, typically pairing Spider-Man with a different Marvel hero each issue, later revived in 2004 and 2019.
Marvel Zombies
Marvel Zombies: Marvel Comics horror franchise set on Earth-2149, where a plague turns superheroes into conscious flesh-eating undead; began in Ultimate Fantastic Four (2005), expanded by Robert Kirkman in 2006, and adapted as a 2025 TV-MA Disney+ animated What If...? spinoff.
Marvels
Marvels is Marvel Comics' 1994 four-issue painted limited series by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, retelling Marvel Universe history from 1939 to the early 1970s through photographer Phil Sheldon; it won three Eisner Awards and spawned Ruins, Eye of the Camera, Epilogue, and a 2026 novelization.
Mary Barton
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, published anonymously in 1848 and set among Manchester's factory workers during the Chartist years.
Mary Poppins (book series)
Mary Poppins book series, by P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers), eight children's books published 1934–1988 about a stern, vain magical nanny at 17 Cherry Tree Lane; the 1964 Disney film, which Travers disliked, made the character a worldwide icon.
Mary Poppins (character)
Mary Poppins is the magical English nanny created by P. L. Travers in the 1934 book and seven sequels through 1988, later played by Julie Andrews in Disney's 1964 film and Emily Blunt in the 2018 sequel.
Mary Sue
Mary Sue is fandom slang for an unrealistically perfect, usually female fictional character, coined in Paula Smith's 1973 Star Trek parody "A Trekkie's Tale"; male equivalents are Gary Stu or Marty Stu.
Marzban-nameh
Marzban-nameh (مرزباننامه) is an early 13th-century Persian prose work of didactic stories and fables, written by Sa'd al-Din Varavini between 1210 and 1225 and modeled on Kalila wa Demna.
Mashafa Berhan
Mashafa Berhan (Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ፡ብርሃንᡇ, "The Book of Light") is a 15th-century Ge'ez religious work attributed to the Ethiopian emperor Zarʾa Yaʿqob, who reigned from 1434 to 1468.
Mashairi ya Sifa
Mashairi ya Sifa are Swahili praise poems composed to honor a person, ruler, community, object, or deity, one strand of the wider Swahili poetic tradition of the East African coast.
Masimba Avanhu
Masimba Avanhu? (Is This the People's Power?) is a 1986 novel in Shona by Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove, the only one of his four novels written in Shona.
Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی)
Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (مثنوی معنوی, Spiritual Couplets): six-book Persian mystical poem by Rumi (d. 1273), over 26,000 couplets, begun at Husam al-Din Chalabi's request; called the Qur'an in Persian and foundational to the Mevlevi order.
Mason Verger
Mason Verger is a fictional villain in Thomas Harris's 1999 novel Hannibal and its 2001 film and NBC TV adaptations: a wealthy meat-packing heir, pedophile, and Lecter's disfigured surviving victim who plots revenge with man-eating boars and dies at his sister Margot's hand.
Masquerade (trope)
Masquerade (trope): the urban-fantasy convention in which supernatural beings secretly live among humans, named for Vampire: The Masquerade. Covers its narrative purpose, the Masquerade Paradox criticism, and its decline after roughly 2005.
Master and Commander
Master and Commander is a 1969 novel by Patrick O'Brian and the first of the Aubrey–Maturin series, following Jack Aubrey's first command and his friendship with surgeon Stephen Maturin.
Master Manole
Master Manole (Meșterul Manole) is the hero of a Romanian folk ballad, also known as Mănăstirea Argeșului, in which a master mason walls his wife into the church at Curtea de Argeș.
Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate is Robert A. Caro's 2002 biography, the third volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, covering his Senate years and winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Masters of the Dew
Masters of the Dew is the English title of Gouverneurs de la rosée, a 1944 novel by Haitian writer Jacques Roumain, published after his death and regarded as a classic of Haitian and Caribbean literature.
Mathilde
Mathilde, full title Mathilde. Een Sonnettenkrans, is a Dutch sonnet cycle written by Jacques Perk in 1879 after meeting Mathilde Thomas in the Ardennes, published posthumously in 1882.
Mathura Mangala
Mathura Mangala is a revered eighteenth-century Odia devotional kavya by Bhakta Charana Das, a Gaudiya Vaishnava, centered on the theme of Radha and Krishna's love.
Matigari
Matigari, full Gĩkũyũ title Matigari ma Njirũũngi, is a 1986 novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o about a freedom fighter who returns after independence to search for truth and justice.
Matilda (novel)
Matilda (1988), Roald Dahl's children's novel illustrated by Quentin Blake, tells of a genius girl with telekinetic powers who defeats headmistress Miss Trunchbull; adapted into the 1996 DeVito film and the RSC musical.
Matilda Wormwood
Matilda Wormwood is the genius child protagonist of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda, illustrated by Quentin Blake; self-taught reader, telekinetic in adaptations, adopted by Miss Honey, and star of the 1996 film, the RSC musical, and the 2022 Netflix film.
Matryona's House
Matryona's House («Матрёнин двор», Matryonin dvor) is a short story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, written in 1959 and published in Novy Mir in 1963, a founding text of village prose.
Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉) was a Japanese poet who elevated the Edo-period genre of haikai into serious art, establishing the Bashō style and laying groundwork for haiku.
Matsurika Kanriden (茉莉花官吏伝)
Matsurika Kanriden (茉莉花官吏伝) is a Japanese light novel series by Rinne Ishida about a palace maid with perfect memory who rises to officialdom; 19 volumes, 2.68 million copies, TV anime by MAHO FILM in January 2027.
Matt Helm
Matt Helm is a fictional American counterspy created by Donald Hamilton, the protagonist of 27 spy thriller novels starting with Death of a Citizen (1960), adapted with Dean Martin.