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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.
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...
Oct 22, 2019 · The Original Timely Comics History. In 1939, pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman saw a rising interest in superhero comic books. Superman had debuted a year earlier in Action Comics #1, and Batman quickly followed suit in Detective Comics #27.
This is a list of the comic books published by Timely Comics (1939–1951) and Atlas Comics (1951–1961) prior to the companies' transformation into Marvel Comics in 1961.
Apr 15, 2024 · The first comic book issued by Marvel’s precursor Timely Comics, in October 1939, featured the debut of the characters Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, the Angel, Ka-Zar, and the Masked Raider. Where did Marvel Comics get its name?
Nov 1, 2022 · Nov 1 2022 • 8:19 AM. Marvel Comics #1 hit newsstands in October 1939. And it was the first comic book published by Timely Comics, the publisher that exists today as Marvel Entertainment....
Jul 3, 2018 · Timely Publications began in New York around 1939 as a publisher of comic books and pulp magazines. At the time, founder Martin Goodman, with partner Abraham Goodman, found a distribution deal with Funnies to produce comic books for the American market. At the time, comics vied for reader attention with a variety of fiction magazines.
