User:Jhenderson777/Marvel Database

Marvel Database is a online encyclopedia from the website Wikia for information on Marvel Comics' fictional universe that was created by Jamie Hari and which is written in a in-universe perspective.

History
The website was conceived by Jamie Hari in 2005. Jamie got his inspiration from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Due to out of date concerns with the handbook he then used Wikipedia as a guide after discovering it. He then explained "it was just a matter of putting two and two together." The superhero Rogue was reported to be the first character article according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Since 2007, Hari explained that they have had about around 2,500 pages in its site which he explained is more than the Marvel.com's Wiki site. Also in 2007 the database was reported to be among the fastest-growing Wikia sites to where the site had about 7,000 hits a day. As of October 2014, the English version of the Wiki contains over 132,000 articles.

DC Database
DC Database is the name of another website created by Jamie Hari based on DC Comic's fictional universe As of October 2014, it contains over 85,000 articles.