Walt Disney Animation Studios is announcing its first movie inspired by a Marvel comic, an adaptation of a lesser known crime fighter series called Big Hero 6.Directed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh) and due in 2014, the CG-animated movie will center on a robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his robot companion BayMax, who join a team of superheroes in a high-tech city called San Fransokyo. Even die-hard comic book fans may have trouble recalling the Marvel series, which was created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in 1998 and is something of a whimsical love letter to Japanese culture.

Characters in the original comic include a samurai, an agent who invented a nanotechnology-based Power Purse and a monster born from a childs drawings.