With Guardians Of The Galaxy, Marvel made household names out of interstellar second-stringers
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Marvel was feeling itself. That's the only real explanation. The comic book company had recovered from bankruptcy, blown out the idea of what a movie franchise could be, and been absorbed into the Disney maw. It had gotten the general public involved in dorked-out comic book ideas about extended continuity and"