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Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber [1] / ˈliːbər /; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics which would later become Marvel Comics.
Joe Simon was a comic book writer and artist. He is better known as the first editor of Timely Comics (later renamed to Marvel Comics) and the co-creator of Captain America. In 1913, Simon was born to a Jewish-American family in Rochester, New York.
Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. During this era, called the Golden Age, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of...
Nov 12, 2018 · With Stan at its helm, Timely Comics morphed first into Atlas Comics and then into the name that would catapult it into legend and forever be synonymous with Stan Lee: Marvel Comics. As Marvel's Editor-in-Chief, Stan "The Man" Lee made his voice the voice of the stories themselves.
Joseph H. "Joe" Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and...
Nov 13, 2018 · The first editor of Timely Comics quotes his young assistant’s reasoning: He said he deserved the promotion because “I know everything.”
Dec 30, 2018 · Lee became Timely’s editor-in-chief of comics—a role he would hold until 1972—during what would come to be known as the genre’s “Golden Age,” when the storylines were dominated by the rock-jawed...
Apr 30, 2024 · After graduating from high school at age 16, Lieber was hired as an editorial assistant for Timely Comics, and in 1942 he was promoted to editor. By that time he had begun writing comic-book scripts for Timely as Stan Lee, a pseudonym that eventually became his legal name.
Joseph H. Simon (born October 10, 1913) was a comic book writer, artist and editor who created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, and who served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. His infrequently used pen names were Gregory Sykes and Jon Henery.
