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Marvel Animated Features

American direct to DVD series of animated films by MLG Productions

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Marvel Animated Features (MAF) is a series of eight American direct-to-video animated superhero films made by MLG Productions, a joint venture between Marvel Studios and Lions Gate Entertainment.

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The public source identifies “Marvel Animated Features” as american direct to DVD series of animated films by MLG Productions. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marvel, Animated and Features.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marvel Animated Features” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.