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Before there was Marvel, there was Timely Comics. With characters such as Captain America, the Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner, it built a cohesive, sh...
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This article is for characters published by Timely Comics, a 1940s comic-book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Pages in category "Timely Comics characters" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
Timely Comics first appearance: 1943, All-Winners Comics #8. When a gang locks bank officials in a timed vault, the Whizzer recruits reformed safecracker Raffles to rescue them. The story reveals that Raffles served his time for crimes in British prisons and is now living peacably in his late middle age years as a gentleman farmer.
Nov 12, 2018 · Marvel and Disney Remember Stan Lee. New York, NY - November 12, 2018. Today, Marvel Comics and The Walt Disney Company pause and reflect with great sadness on the passing of Marvel Chairman Emeritus, Stan Lee. With a heavy heart, we share our deepest condolences with his daughter and brother, and we honor and remember the creator, voice and ...
Feb 26, 2016 · Published Feb 26, 2016. The House of Ideas is resurrecting Timely Comics for a series of one-shots, reprinting the first issues of several All-New All-Different series. Marvel is harkening back to its origins with a new label titled Timely Comics -- named after the publisher's original name in the '30s and '40s -- geared towards catching up new ...
History After the Golden Age Young Men #25 (Feb. 1954): Cover art by Carl Burgos. Note the Atlas globe in the top left corner. Atlas Comics was the successor of Timely Comics, the company that magazine and paperback novel publisher Martin Goodman founded in 1939, and which had reached the peak of its popularity during the war years with its star characters the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and ...
Timely Comics. Originally known as Red Circle Comics, the company which would become better known as Timely Comics (and latterly as Marvel Comics) was founded by Martin Goodman in 1939, and debuted with the launch of Marvel Comics #1. Goodman had previously published pulp magazines (which is where the Red Circle name came from), covering the ...
