11 Facts About Timely Comics

1.

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.

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2.

In 2016, Marvel announced that Timely Comics would be the name of a new imprint of low-priced reprint comics.

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3.

In 1939, with the emerging medium of comic books proving hugely popular, and the first superheroes setting the trend, pulp-magazine publisher Martin Goodman founded Timely Comics Publications, basing it at his existing company in the McGraw-Hill Building at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City.

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4.

Goodman then formed Timely Comics, Inc, beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941.

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5.

Just as Captain America had his teenage sidekick Bucky and DC Timely Comics' Batman had Robin, the Human Torch acquired a young partner, Toro, in the first issue of the Torch's own magazine.

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6.

Timely Comics developed an "animator" bullpen creating such movie tie-in and original talking animal comics as Terrytoons Comics, Mighty Mouse, All Surprise Comics, Super Rabbit Comics, Funny Frolics, and Funny Tunes, renamed Animated Funny Comic-Tunes.

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7.

Timely Comics published one of humor cartoonist Basil Wolverton's best-known features, Powerhouse Pepper.

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8.

Timely Comics continued to pursue female readers later in the decade with such superheroines as Sun Girl; the Sub-Mariner spin-off Namora; and Venus, the Roman goddess of love, posing as a human reporter.

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9.

In 1946, for instance, the superhero title All Select Timely Comics was changed to Blonde Phantom Timely Comics, and now starred a masked secretary who fought crime in an evening gown.

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10.

The following year, Marvel announced that Timely Comics would be the name of a new imprint of low-priced reprint comics.

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11.

Timely Comics took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week.

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