Creating Multiverses since -- Writing Began?

    I read an article about the creation of multiverses in the Marvel Universe, particularly in the animated feature about Spiderman that came out around 2018. The MCU, or Marvel Universe, has been around since the early 1960s, I believe, part of the brainchild of Stan Lee and a few others, but mostly him. I delved into that world a bit, mostly in the 1980s with an assortment of comic books, but also a few movies, but more Saturday morning cartoons. I guess the Hulk show with Bruce Bixby goes back to the 1970s, plus the Spiderman clips on the Electric Company on PBS, Public Broadcasting, channel 5.

    There may have been a few books back then, too, that I was exposed to, related to the Marvel Universe. Even within that publishing company, there were other universes, like the one of Conan the Barbarian, or perhaps Dracula and Blade. Was it separate from the universe of the Marvel heroes, Fantastic Four, Spiderman, the Avengers and X-Men? 

    Marvel storywriters themselves created other universes, with alternative story scripts and possibilities of their characters. Marvel is more a recent phenomenon in fiction. The Conan universe was originally started by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s, while Bram Stoker was making up the "universe" of Dracula back in the late 1890s, apparently.

    Fiction and its universes go back thousands of years, from what I understand. Any civilization that wrote, like the Indians or the Chinese, were creating other realities and universities, not to mention all the verbally created stories of all the various clans and tribes across the earth, going back thousands of years. Many were never recorded.

    I was always being introduced to alternate and fictional realities, from television, film, record, cassette, and later comics, to include the Sunday "Funnies". Some say religion does its share of creating fiction as well, of which I am very familiar. I began playing around with my own made-up stories by the 1970s, some written, many others created in my mind, some shared with others, like my friends and family. I was always creating other "universes" or stories. 

    James Patterson, I realize that I have been hungry like you. Even in my love or affinity for sports of many kinds, there is a lore or other-universe quality of those competitions and storylines.

    I read different authors in the 1980s more and more, including science fiction and fantasy, like Anne McAffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, and quite a few others.

    I have read more realistic or time-contemporaneous fiction as an adult, to include Paul Theroux, who mixes the worlds of fiction of his creation and the real world.

    Multiverses have been going a long time, and I think that they will continue on and on.

    And it is up to connect them.

    Yes.

    I have to, or want to, connect them.