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Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book
Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
 publishing
Publishing

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 company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics
Atlas Comics (1950s)

Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Magazine and mass market paperback publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporation entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic-book division during this time....
, and then Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
. During this era, called the Golden Age of comic books
Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s....
, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine
Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s....
 publisher Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman (publisher)

Martin Goodman was an United States publisher of pulp magazines, Mass market paperback, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, launching the company that would become Marvel Comics....
, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate
Corporation

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 entities (including Red Circle Comics) all producing the same product. The company was founded in 1939 as Timely Publications, based at his existing company in the McGraw-Hill Building
330 West 42nd Street

330 West 42nd Street is also known as the McGraw Hill Building. The original McGraw-Hill building on 42nd Street was completed in 1931, the same year as the completion of the Empire State Building....
 at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City
New York City

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.






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Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book
Comic book

A comic book is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and dialog and descriptive prose. The style was introduced in 1934. Despite the term, comic books do not necessarily feature humorous subject-matter; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented....
 publishing
Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
 company that would evolve into first Atlas Comics
Atlas Comics (1950s)

Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Magazine and mass market paperback publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporation entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic-book division during this time....
, and then Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
. During this era, called the Golden Age of comic books
Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s....
, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine
Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s....
 publisher Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman (publisher)

Martin Goodman was an United States publisher of pulp magazines, Mass market paperback, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, launching the company that would become Marvel Comics....
, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
 entities (including Red Circle Comics) all producing the same product. The company was founded in 1939 as Timely Publications, based at his existing company in the McGraw-Hill Building
330 West 42nd Street

330 West 42nd Street is also known as the McGraw Hill Building. The original McGraw-Hill building on 42nd Street was completed in 1931, the same year as the completion of the Empire State Building....
 at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. In 1942, it moved to the 14th floor of the Empire State Building
Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the List of U.S....
, where it remained until 1951.

Creation

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In 1939
1939 in comics

Events and publications...
, with the emerging medium
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
 of comic books proving hugely popular, and the first superheroes
Superhero

A superhero is a Character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to act of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototype superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes?ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas?have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other mass...
 (most notably the archetypal Superman
Superman

Superman is a Character , a comic book superhero widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, and sold to DC Comics in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics Action Comics 1 and subseque...
) setting the trend, pulp-magazine publisher Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman (publisher)

Martin Goodman was an United States publisher of pulp magazines, Mass market paperback, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, launching the company that would become Marvel Comics....
 founded Timely Publications, basing it at his existing company. Goodman — whose official titles were editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
, managing editor, and business manager
Business manager

In a general context, a business manager is a person who manages the work of others in order to run a business efficiently. He or she should have working smarts of the following areas, and may be a specialist in one or more: sales, marketing, and public relations; research, operations analysis, data processing, mathematics, statistics, and econ...
, with Abraham Goodman officially listed as publisher — contracted with the newly formed comic-book "packager" Funnies, Inc. to supply material.

His first effort, Marvel Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics

Marvel Mystery Comics is an USA comic book series published during the 1930s-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #1 (Oct. 1939), featured the first appearances
List of first appearances in Marvel Comics publications

This is a list of first appearances of artifacts, characters, dimensions, locations, species, and teams in publications by Marvel Comics.*#List of first appearances: ...
  of writer
Writer

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-artist
Artist

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 Carl Burgos
Carl Burgos

Carl Burgos was an United States of America comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the Human Torch in Marvel Mystery Comics #1 , during the period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books....
' android
Android

An android is a robot designed to look and act human. The word derives from a?d???, the genitive of the Greek language a??? aner, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" ....
 superhero
Superhero

A superhero is a Character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to act of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototype superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes?ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas?have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other mass...
, the Human Torch, and Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson

Paul Gustavson n?e Karl Paul Gustafson was an United States-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and The Angel , who debuted in Marvel Mystery Comics #1 , the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics....
's costumed detective
Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators . Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records....
 The Angel. As well, it contained the first generally available appearance of Bill Everett
Bill Everett

William Blake "Bill" Everett, also known as William Blake and Everett Blake was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics....
's mutant
Mutant

A mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or Trait not found in the wild type....
 anti-hero
Anti-hero

In fiction, an antihero is a protagonist whose character or goals are antithetical to traditional hero. The term dates to 1714, although literary criticism identifies the trope in earlier literature....
 Namor the Sub-Mariner
Namor the Sub-Mariner

Namor the Sub-Mariner is a fictional character comic-book character in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe, and one of the first superheroes, debuting in Spring 1939....
, created for the unpublished movie-theater giveaway comic Motion Picture Funnies Weekly
Motion Picture Funnies Weekly

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly is a 36-page, black-and-white United States comic book series created in 1939, and designed to be a promotional giveaway in movie theaters....
 earlier that year, with the eight-page original story now expanded by four pages.

Also included were Al Anders' Western
Western fiction

File:Wild West 1908.jpgWestern fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically between the years of 1860 and 1900 ....
 hero the Masked Raider; the jungle lord Ka-Zar the Great
Ka-Zar

Ka-Zar is the name of two jungle-dwelling fictional characters. The first appeared in pulp magazines of the 1930s, and was adapted for his second iteration, as a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics....
, with Ben Thompson adapting the story "King of Fang and Claw" by Bob Byrd in Goodman's eponymous pulp magazine Ka-Zar #1 (Oct. 1936); the non-continuing-character story "Jungle Terror," featuring an adventurer named Ken Masters, written by the quirkily named Tohm Dixon; "Now I'll Tell One", five single-panel, black-and-white gag cartoons by Fred Schwab, on the inside front cover; and a two-page prose story by Ray Gill
Ray Gill

Ray Gill holds the Football League appearance record for Chester City F.C..The full-back played in 406 league games for Chester from 1951 to 1962, putting him seven ahead of Ron Hughes and 10 ahead of Trevor Storton....
, "Burning Rubber", about auto racing
Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving racing cars. It is one of the world's most watched television sports....
. A painted cover by veteran science-fiction pulp artist Frank R. Paul
Frank R. Paul

Frank Rudolph Paul was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Teaneck, New Jersey....
 featured the Human Torch, looking much different than in the interior story.

That initial comic, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80,000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939. The latter is identical except for a black bar over the October date in the inside-front-cover indicia, and the November date added at the end. That sold approximately 800,000 copies. With a hit on his hands, Goodman began assembling an in-house staff, hiring Funnies, Inc. writer-artist Joe Simon
Joe Simon

Joseph H. Simon is a Jewish-American comic book writer, artist, editing, and publishing. Simon 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....
 as editor
Editing

Editing is the process of preparing language, s, sound, video, or film through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media....
. Simon brought along his collaborator, artist Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby

Jacob Kurtzberg , better known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editing. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s....
, followed by artist Syd Shores
Syd Shores

Sydney Shores was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
.

Golden Age of Comic Books

Marvel Comics was rechristened Marvel Mystery Comics with issue #2 (Dec. 1939) — the magazine would continue under that title through #92 (June 1949) before becoming Marvel Tales
Marvel Tales

Marvel Tales is the title of three United States comic-book series published by Marvel Comics, the first of them from the company's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics ....
 through #159 (Aug. 1957) — and Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with Daring Mystery Comics
Daring Mystery Comics

Daring Mystery Comics is an United States comic-book series published by Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics, during the 1930-1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #1 (Jan. 1940), Mystic Comics
Mystic Comics

Mystic Comics is the name of several comic book series published by the company that would later become Marvel Comics. The first two series were superhero anthologies published by Marvel Comics' 1930-'40s predecessor, Timely Comics, during what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books....
 #1 (March 1940), Red Raven Comics
Red Raven

Red Raven is a fictional character comic-book superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. Created by Joe Simon and Louis Cazeneuve in Red Raven Comics #1 , published by Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #1 (Aug. 1940), The Human Torch #2 (premiering Fall 1940 with no cover date and having taken over the numbering from the unsuccessful Red Raven), and Captain America Comics
Captain America

Captain America is a Character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character First appearance in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby....
 #1 (March 1941). Going on sale in December 1940, a year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu, Hawaii. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base....
, and already showing Cap punching Hitler in the jaw, that first issue sold nearly one million copies.
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With the hit characters Human Torch and Sub-Mariner now joined by Simon & Kirby's seminal patriotic hero Captain America, Timely had its "big three" stars of the era fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books
Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s....
. Rival publishers National Comics
National Publications

National Publications was one of the companies that would later become DC Comics. The corporation was originally two companies: National Allied Publications and Detective Comics....
 / All-American Comics
All-American Comics

All-American Comics was the flagship title of comic book publisher All-American Publications. It ran for 102 issues from April 1939 to October 1948, at which time it was renamed All-American Western....
, the sister companies that would evolve into today's DC Comics
DC Comics

DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. A subsidiary of Warner Bros....
, likewise had their own "big three": Superman and Batman
Batman

Batman is a Character , a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939....
 plus the soon-to-debut Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a Character , a DC Comics Superhero#Superheroines created by William Moulton Marston. First appearing in All Star Comics #8 , she is one of three characters to have been continuously published by DC Comics since the company's 1944 inception ....
. Timely's other major competitors were Fawcett Publications
Fawcett Publications

Fawcett Publications was an USA publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett . At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the Army, and the Spanish-American War took him to the Philippines....
 (Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel (DC Comics)

Captain Marvel is a Fictional character comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C....
, introduced Feb. 1940); Quality Comics
Quality Comics

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books....
 (Plastic Man
Plastic Man

Plastic Man is a fictional character comic-book superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. Created by writer-artist Jack Cole , he first appeared in Police Comics #1 ....
, Blackhawk
Blackhawk (comics)

Blackhawk, a long-running comic book series, was also a film serial, a radio and a novel. The comic book was published first by Quality Comics and later by National Periodical Publications, the primary company of those that evolved to become DC Comics....
, both Aug. 1941); and Lev Gleason Publications
Lev Gleason Publications

Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Gleason, was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including Daredevil , Crime Does Not Pay , Captain Battle and Boy Comics....
 (Daredevil, Sept. 1940; unrelated to the 1960s Marvel hero
Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

Daredevil is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Daredevil #1 and was created by writer-Literary editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby....
).

Other notable Timely characters, many seen both in modern-day retcon
Retcon

Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. The change is informally referred to as a "retcon", and producing a retcon is called "retconning"....
 appearances and in flashbacks, include the Angel, the next-most-popular character in terms of number of appearances; the Destroyer and the Black Marvel
Black Marvel

The Black Marvel is a fictional character comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Al Gabriele, he first appeared in Mystic Comics #5 , published by Marvel's 1940s forerunner Timely Comics during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books....
, two early creations of future Marvel chief Stan Lee
Stan Lee

Stan Lee is an United States comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.Lee is considered the father of comic books....
; super-speedster the Whizzer
Whizzer (Robert Frank)

The Whizzer is a fictional character, a superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared during the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
; the flying and super-strong Miss America
Miss America (Marvel Comics)

Miss America is a Character , a comic book Superhero#Superheroines in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. She First appearance in Marvel Mystery Comics #49 , and was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Gabriele for Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel, in the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
; the original Vision, who inspired Marvel writer Roy Thomas
Roy Thomas

Roy Thomas is a comic book writer and editing, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E....
 in the 1960s to create a Silver Age
Silver Age of Comic Books

The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those which featured the superhero archetype....
 version of the character
Vision (Marvel Comics)

The Vision is the name of three fictional characters that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics.Vision was created by the writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 , published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics during the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic B...
; and the Blazing Skull
Blazing Skull

The Blazing Skull is a fictional character superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe, created during the 1930-'40s Golden Age of Comic Books for Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics....
 and the Thin Man
Thin Man (comics)

The Thin Man is a fictional character, United States comic book Character in Marvel Comics' main Shared universe Marvel universe. Created by artist Klaus Nordling and an unknown writer in Mystic Comics #4 , published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics during the time fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Thin Man...
, two members of the present-day New Invaders
Invaders (comics)

The Invaders is the name of two fictional superhero teams in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. The original team was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Sal Buscema in Avengers vol....
.

Just as Captain America had his teenage sidekick Bucky
Bucky

Bucky is the name of several Character , masked superheroes in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe. The original, James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a sidekick character in Captain America #1 , published by Marvel's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics....
 and DC Comics' Batman had Robin
Robin (comics)

Robin is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, originally created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, as a junior counterpart to DC Comics superhero Batman....
, the Human Torch acquired a young mutant partner, Toro
Toro (comics)

Toro is a fictional character, a Timely Comics comic book superhero from the 1940s and 1950s. Created by Carl Burgos, the character appeared as the partner of the original Human Torch ....
, in the first issue of the Torch's own magazine. The Young Allies
Young Allies

The Young Allies is the name of two superhero teams in the Marvel Universe....
 — one of several "kid gangs" popular in comics at the time — debuted under the rubric the Sentinels of Liberty in a text story in Captain America Comics #4 (June 1941) before making it to the comics pages themselves the following issue, and then eventually into their own title.

Seeing a natural "fire and water" theme, Timely was responsible for comic books' first major crossover, with a two-issue battle between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner that spanned Marvel Mystery Comics #8-9 — telling the story, Rashomon
Rashomon (film)

is a 1950 in film Cinema of Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. It stars Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Minoru Chiaki....
-style but years before Rashomon, from the two characters' different perspectives.

After the Simon & Kirby team moved to DC late 1941, having produced Captain America Comics through issue #10 (Jan. 1942), Al Avison
Al Avison

Alfred Avison is an United States comic book artist known for his work on the Marvel Comics characters Captain America and the Whizzer during the 1930-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of comic books....
 and Syd Shores
Syd Shores

Sydney Shores was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
 became regular pencilers of the celebrated title, with one generally inking
Inker

The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book, or graphic novel. After the penciler gives a drawing to the inker, the inker uses black ink, usually India ink, to produce refined black outlines over the rough pencil lines....
 over the other. Stan Lee
Stan Lee

Stan Lee is an United States comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.Lee is considered the father of comic books....
 (né Stanley Lieber), a cousin of Goodman's by marriage who had been serving as an assistant since 1939, at age 16 1/2 , was promoted to interim editor just shy of his 19th birthday. Showing a knack for the business, Lee stayed on for decades, eventually becoming Marvel Comics' publisher in 1972. Fellow Timely staffer Vincent Fago
Vincent Fago

Vincenzo Francisco Gennaro Di Fago was an United States comic-book artist and writer who served as interim editor of Timely Comics, the Golden Age of comic books predecessor of Marvel Comics, while editor Stan Lee did his World War II service....
 would substitute during Lee's World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 military service
Military service

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.

The staff at that time, Fago recalled, was, "Mike Sekowsky
Mike Sekowsky

Mike Sekowsky was a Jewish United States comic book artist best known as the exclusive penciler for DC Comics' Justice League of America during most of the 1960s, and as the regular writer and artist on Wonder Woman during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
. Ed Winiarski
Ed Winiarski

Ed Winiarski , who sometimes signed his work "Win" or "Winny" ande sometimes used the pseudonym Fran Miller, is an United States comic book writer-artist known for both adventure stories and funny-animal cartooning in the late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books....
. Gary Keller was a production assistant and letterer. Ernest Hart
Ernie Hart

Biography...
 and Kin Platt
Kin Platt

Kin Platt is an United States writer-artist best known for penning radio comedy and animated TV series, as well as children's literature Mystery fiction novels, for one of which he received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award....
 were writers, but they worked freelance; Hart also drew. George Klein
George Klein (comics)

George Klein was an United States of America comic book artist and cartoonist whose career stretched from the 1930s and 1940s' Golden Age of comic books....
, Syd Shores, Vince Alascia
Vince Alascia

Vincent Alascia, also known as Nicholas Alascia , was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America during the Golden Age of comic books, and for his 23-year run as inker on a single creative team, with penciler Charles_Nicholas_%28comics%29#Charles_Wojtkoski and writer Joe Gill at Charlton Comics from 1953...
, Dave Gantz
Dave Gantz

Dave Gantz was an American artist and sculptor who wrote children's books and worked as a newspaper cartoonist.He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1997 for Gantz Glances....
, and Chris Rule were there, too".

Funny animals, and people

Powerhousepepper2
The superheroes were the products of what Timely referred to as the "adventure" bullpen. The company also developed an "animator" bullpen creating such movie
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 tie-in and original funny animal
Funny animal

Funny animal is a cartooning term for the genre of comics and animated cartoons in which the main characters are humanoid or talking animal animals, with anthropomorphism personality traits....
 comics as Terrytoons Comics
Terrytoons

Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
, Mighty Mouse
Mighty Mouse

Mighty Mouse is an animation superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox....
, All Surprise Comics, Super Rabbit Comics
Super Rabbit

Super Rabbit is a fictional character, funny-animal superhero in comic books published by Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics, during the 1930s and '40s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books....
, Funny Frolics, and Funny Tunes, renamed Animated Funny Comic-Tunes. Former Fleischer Studios
Fleischer Studios

Fleischer Studios, Inc. is an United States corporation which originated as an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway , New York City, New York....
 animator
Animator

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called animation when rapidly displayed....
 Fago, who joined Timely in 1942, headed this group, which consisted through the years of such writer/artists as Hart, Gantz, Klein, Platt, Rule, Sekowsky, Frank Carin (né Carino), Bob Deschamps, Chad Grothkopf, Pauline Loth, Jim Mooney
Jim Mooney

James Noel "Jim" Mooney was an United States Comic book creator best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books....
, Moss Worthman a.k.a. Moe Worth, and future MAD Magazine cartoonists Dave Berg
Dave Berg (cartoonist)

Dave Berg was an American cartoonist, most noted for his work in Mad .Berg showed early artistic talents, attending Pratt Institute when he was 12 years old, and later studying at Cooper Union....
 and Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee

Al Jaffee is an award winning United States cartoonist. He is best known for his work in Mad , including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in, which has appeared in almost every issue since 1964....
.

Features from this department include "Dinky" and "Frenchy Rabbit" in Terrytoons Comics; "Floop and Skilly Boo" in Comedy Comics; "Posty the Pelican Postman" in Krazy Komics and other titles; "Krazy Krow" in that character's eponymous comic; "Tubby an' Tack", in various comics; and the most popular of these features, Jaffee's "Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal
Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal

Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal are fictional character, funny-animal comic-book characters created by cartoonist Al Jaffee for Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
" and Hart's "Super Rabbit", the cover stars of many different titles.

In slightly more grownup fare, Timely in 1944 and 1945 initiated a sitcom
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 selection of titles aimed at female readers: Millie the Model
Millie the Model

Millie the Model was Marvel Comics' longest-running humor title, first published by the company's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and continuing through its 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics , to 1970s Marvel....
, Tessie the Typist and Nellie the Nurse. Timely also published one of humor cartoonist
Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
 Basil Wolverton
Basil Wolverton

File:Basil wolverton.jpgBasil Wolverton was an United States cartoonist, illustrator, Comic book creator and professed "Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet", whose many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad ....
's best-known features, Powerhouse Pepper
Powerhouse Pepper

Powerhouse Pepper is a fictional character, comic-book humor character who appeared in comics published in the 1940s by Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics....
. The first issue, cover-dated January 1943, bore no number, and protagonist
Protagonist

A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
 Pepper looked different from his more familiar visualization (when the series returned for four issues, May-Nov. 1948) as the bullet-headed bozo in the striped turtleneck sweater.

Time after Timely

Future Comic Book Hall of Fame
Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, commonly shortened to the Eisner Award, is a prize given for creative achievement in American comic books....
 artist Gene Colan
Gene Colan

Eugene "Gene" Colan is an United States Comic book creator.Best known as one of Marvel Comics' most significant artists, whose signature titles include the superhero series, Daredevil , the cult-hit Satire series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror fiction series....
, a Marvel mainstay from 1946 on, recalled that, "The atmosphere at Timely was very good, very funny. ... [I worked in] a big art room and there were about 20 artists in there, all stacked up. Syd [Shores]
Syd Shores

Sydney Shores was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
 was in the last row on my side, and there was another row on the other side. Dan DeCarlo
Dan DeCarlo

Daniel S. DeCarlo was an United States cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher's house style....
 was there, several other people — Vince Alascia
Vince Alascia

Vincent Alascia, also known as Nicholas Alascia , was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America during the Golden Age of comic books, and for his 23-year run as inker on a single creative team, with penciler Charles_Nicholas_%28comics%29#Charles_Wojtkoski and writer Joe Gill at Charlton Comics from 1953...
 was an inker; Rudy LaPick
Rudy Lapick

Rudolph E. "Rudy" Lapick was an American comics artist who worked as an inker for Archie Comics for many years. He won a Shazam Award in 1974 for Best Inker ....
 sat right behind me," with Mike Sekowsky
Mike Sekowsky

Mike Sekowsky was a Jewish United States comic book artist best known as the exclusive penciler for DC Comics' Justice League of America during most of the 1960s, and as the regular writer and artist on Wonder Woman during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
 "in another room".

Yet after the wartime boom years — when superheroes had been new and inspirational, and comics provided cheap entertainment for millions of children, soldiers and others — the post-war era found superheroes falling out of fashion. Television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and mass market paperback books now also competed for readers and leisure time. Goodman began turning to a wider variety of genres than ever, emphasizing horror
Horror fiction

Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience....
, Westerns
Western fiction

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, teen humor, crime
Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their Motive s. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred....
 and war comics, and introducing female heroes to try to attract girls and young women to read comics.
Atlaslog
In 1946, for instance, the superhero title All Select Comics was changed to Blonde Phantom Comics, and now starred a masked secretary
Secretary

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 who fought crime in an evening gown
Evening gown

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. That same year, Kid Komics eliminated its stars and became Kid Movie Comics. All Winners Comics became All Teen Comics in January 1947. Timely eliminated virtually all its staff positions in 1948.

The precise end-point of the Golden Age of comics is vague, but for Timely, at least, it appears to have ended with the cancellation of Captain America Comics at issue #75 (Feb. 1950) — by which time the series had already been Captain America's Weird Tales for two issues, with the finale featuring merely anthological horror/suspense tales and no superheroes. The company's flagship title, Marvel Mystery Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics

Marvel Mystery Comics is an USA comic book series published during the 1930s-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books....
, starring the Human Torch, had already ended its run (with #92, June 1949), as had Sub-Mariner Comics (with #32, the same month). Goodman began using the globe logo of Atlas
Atlas Comics (1950s)

Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Magazine and mass market paperback publisher Martin Goodman , whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporation entities, used Atlas as the umbrella name for his comic-book division during this time....
, the newsstand-distribution company he owned, on comics cover-dated Nov. 1951.

Timely characters and creators

List of characters making multiple appearances, either in Timely Comics solely or in Timely and subsequent companies Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics

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|- |Angel |Marvel Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics

Marvel Mystery Comics is an USA comic book series published during the 1930s-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #1 (Nov. 1939) |Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson

Paul Gustavson n?e Karl Paul Gustafson was an United States-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and The Angel , who debuted in Marvel Mystery Comics #1 , the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics....
 (writer-artist) |- |Black Marvel
Black Marvel

The Black Marvel is a fictional character comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Al Gabriele, he first appeared in Mystic Comics #5 , published by Marvel's 1940s forerunner Timely Comics during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books....
 |Mystic Comics
Mystic Comics

Mystic Comics is the name of several comic book series published by the company that would later become Marvel Comics. The first two series were superhero anthologies published by Marvel Comics' 1930-'40s predecessor, Timely Comics, during what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books....
 #5 (March 1941) |Stan Lee
Stan Lee

Stan Lee is an United States comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.Lee is considered the father of comic books....
 (writer), Al Gabriele
Al Gabriele

Al Gabriele was an United States comic book artist during the 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. He is known for his work on some of Marvel Comics' earliest Captain America and Sub-Mariner stories, and for co-creating the company's superheroes the Whizzer and Miss America ....
 (penciller-inker) |- |Black Widow
Black Widow (Golden Age)

Black Widow is a supernaturally powered fictional character in the Marvel Comics's shared universe, the Marvel Universe, known as one of the first costumed, superpowered female protagonists....
 |Mystic Comics #4 (Aug. 1940) |George Kapitan (writer), Harry Sahle
Harry Sahle

Harry F. Sahle was an United States comic book artist who drew for such publishers as Archie Comics, Quality Comics and Marvel Comics-precursor Timely Comics during the late-1930s-to-1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 (penciller-inker) |- |Blue Blade
Blue Blade

The Blue Blade is an American comic book Fictional character owned by Marvel Comics who exists in that company's Marvel Universe. His only appearance was in USA Comics #5, published in the 1940s by Marvel's forerunner, Timely Comics, during a period that is known as the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |USA Comics #5 (Summer 1942) |Syd Shores
Syd Shores

Sydney Shores was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
 (penciller), Charles Nicholas
Charles Nicholas (comics)

"Charles Nicholas" is the pseudonymous house name of three early creators of United States comic books for the Fox Feature Syndicate and Fox Comics....
 (inker) |- |Blazing Skull
Blazing Skull

The Blazing Skull is a fictional character superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe, created during the 1930-'40s Golden Age of Comic Books for Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics....
 |Mystic Comics #5 (March 1941) | |- |Blonde Phantom
Blonde Phantom

The Blonde Phantom is a fictional masked crimefighter in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editing Stan Lee and artist Syd Shores for Marvel predecessor Timely Comics, she first appearance in All Select Comics #11 , during the 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |All Select Comics
All Select Comics

All Select Comics is an United States comic book series published by Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books....
 #11 (Fall 1946) |Stan Lee (writer), Syd Shores
Syd Shores

Sydney Shores was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
 (penciller), Charles Nicholas
Charles Nicholas (comics)

"Charles Nicholas" is the pseudonymous house name of three early creators of United States comic books for the Fox Feature Syndicate and Fox Comics....
 (inker) |- |Blue Blaze |Mystic Comics #1 (March 1940) |Harry Douglas
Harry Douglas

Harry Douglas, IV is an American football wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Falcons in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft....
 (writer-penciller-inker) |- |Blue Diamond
Blue Diamond (comics)

Blue Diamond is a fictional character, a superhero in comic-books published by Marvel Comics, debuting under the company's 1940s forerunner, Timely Comics....
 |Daring Mystery Comics
Daring Mystery Comics

Daring Mystery Comics is an United States comic-book series published by Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics, during the 1930-1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #7 (April 1941) |Ben Thompson (penciller-inker) |- |Captain America
Captain America

Captain America is a Character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character First appearance in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby....
 & Bucky
Bucky

Bucky is the name of several Character , masked superheroes in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe. The original, James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a sidekick character in Captain America #1 , published by Marvel's 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics....
 |Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941) |Joe Simon
Joe Simon

Joseph H. Simon is a Jewish-American comic book writer, artist, editing, and publishing. Simon 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....
 (writer), Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby

Jacob Kurtzberg , better known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editing. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s....
 (penciller),
Joe Simon and Al Liederman (inkers) |- |Captain Terror |USA Comics #2 (Nov. 1941) | |- |Challenger
Challenger (comics)

The Challenger is a fictional character superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the company's 1940s iteration as Timely Comics during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941) | |- |Citizen V
Citizen V

Citizen V, is the codename of several fictional character superheroes in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. The original Citizen V was an obscure hero from the Golden Age of Comic Books, but the character's identity was revived in the modern day in the pages of Thunderbolts ....
 |Daring Mystery Comics #8 (Jan. 1942) |Ben Thompson (penciler-inker) |- |Comet Pierce |Red Raven Comics
Red Raven

Red Raven is a fictional character comic-book superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. Created by Joe Simon and Louis Cazeneuve in Red Raven Comics #1 , published by Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #1 (Aug. 1940) |Jack Kirby (penciler) |- |Destroyer |Mystic Comics #6 (Oct. 1941) |Stan Lee (writer), Jack Binder (penciler-inker) |- |Fiery Mask
Fiery Mask

Fiery Mask is a fictional character from the Timely Comics/Marvel Comics universe. He was a Golden Age superhero created by Joe Simon and first appeared in Daring Mystery Comics #1....
 |Daring Mystery Comics #1 (Jan. 1940) |Joe Simon (writer-penciller-inker) |- |Fin
Fin (comics)

The Fin is the name of two characters from Marvel Comics. The Golden Age Fin has elements of both the swashbuckling pirate and superhero genres....
 |Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941) |Bill Everett
Bill Everett

William Blake "Bill" Everett, also known as William Blake and Everett Blake was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics....
 (writer-penciller-inker) |- |Flexo the Rubber Man
(Rubber robot, not stretching hero) |Mystic Comics #1 (April 1940) |Jack Binder (penciller-inker) |- |Human Torch |Marvel Comics #1 (Nov. 1939) |Carl Burgos
Carl Burgos

Carl Burgos was an United States of America comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the Human Torch in Marvel Mystery Comics #1 , during the period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books....
 (writer-penciller-inker) |- |Hurricane |Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941) |Jack Kirby (penciller), Joe Simon
Joe Simon

Joseph H. Simon is a Jewish-American comic book writer, artist, editing, and publishing. Simon 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....
 (inker) |- |Jack Frost |USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941) ||Stan Lee (writer), Charles Nicholas (artist) |- |Major Liberty |USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941) | |- |Marvel Boy
Marvel Boy

Marvel Boy is the name of several fictional character comic book characters in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe, including predecessor companies Timely Comics and Atlas Comics ....
 (I) |Daring Mystery Comics #6 (Sept. 1940) ||Jack Kirby (penciller), Joe Simon and Al Avison (inkers) |- |Marvel Boy
Marvel Boy

Marvel Boy is the name of several fictional character comic book characters in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe, including predecessor companies Timely Comics and Atlas Comics ....
 (II) |USA Comics #7 (Feb. 1943) ||Bob Oksner
Bob Oksner

Bob Oksner was an United States comics artist known for both adventure comic strips and for superhero and humor comic books, primarily at DC Comics....
 (writer-penciller-inker) |- |Marvex the Super-Robot |Daring Mystery Comics #3 (April 1940) | |- |Mercury |Red Raven Comics #1 (Aug. 1940) | |- |Miss America
Miss America (Marvel Comics)

Miss America is a Character , a comic book Superhero#Superheroines in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. She First appearance in Marvel Mystery Comics #49 , and was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Gabriele for Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel, in the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |Marvel Mystery Comics
Marvel Mystery Comics

Marvel Mystery Comics is an USA comic book series published during the 1930s-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 #49 (Nov. 1943) |Otto Binder
Otto Binder

Otto Oscar Binder was a writer of United States science fiction, non-fiction UFO, and comic books....
 (writer), Al Gabriele (penciller) |- |Namora
Namora

Namora is the name of two fictional characters in various Marvel Comics publications. Both are female superheroes from Atlantis , both are the daughters of an Atlantean parent and a surface-dwelling parent, and both are associated in some way with Namor the Sub-Mariner....
 |Marvel Mystery Comics #82 (May 1947) | |- |Patriot
Jeffrey Mace

Jeffrey "Jeff" Mace, also known as the Patriot and Captain America, is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe, created during the 1940s period which fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |Marvel Mystery Comics #21 (July 1941) | |- |Red Raven
Red Raven

Red Raven is a fictional character comic-book superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. Created by Joe Simon and Louis Cazeneuve in Red Raven Comics #1 , published by Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |Red Raven Comics #1 (Aug. 1940) |Joe Simon (writer), Louis Cazeneuve
Louis Cazeneuve

Luis "Louis" Cazeneuve was an Argentina-born United States comic-book artist best-known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Red Raven and for his prolific work on the DC Comics characters Aquaman, Shining Knight, the Boy Commandos and others during the 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 (penciller) |- |Sub-Mariner |Marvel Comics #1 (Nov. 1939) |Bill Everett (writer-penciller-inker) |- |Sun Girl
Sun Girl (Marvel Comics)

Sun Girl is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. Created by artist Ken Bald and an unidentified writer, she first appeared in Sun Girl #1 , published by Marvel's 1940s precursor, Timely Comics....
 |Sun Girl #1 (Aug. 1948) | |- |Thin Man
Thin Man (comics)

The Thin Man is a fictional character, United States comic book Character in Marvel Comics' main Shared universe Marvel universe. Created by artist Klaus Nordling and an unknown writer in Mystic Comics #4 , published by Marvel predecessor Timely Comics during the time fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Thin Man...
 |Mystic Comics #4 (July 1940) |Klaus Nordling
Klaus Nordling

Klaus Nordling was a Finnish American writer-artist for United States American comic book. He is best-known for his work on the 1940s masked-crimefighter feature "Lady Luck ", and as co-creator of the Marvel Comics superhero the Thin Man ....
 (penciller-inker) |- |Thunderer |Daring Mystery Comics #7 (April 1941) | |- |Vision |Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (Nov. 1940) |Jack Kirby & Joe Simon (writers); Jack Kirby (penciller-inker) |- |Whizzer
Whizzer (Robert Frank)

The Whizzer is a fictional character, a superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared during the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books....
 |USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941) |Stan Lee? (writer) Al Avison (penciller), Al Gabriele (inker) |- |The Witness
Witness (comics)

The Witness is the name of at least three fictional character, United States comic-book characters, the first published by Timely Comics in the 1940s and the final two by its successor company, Marvel Comics....
 |Mystic Comics #6 (Dec. 1941) |Stan Lee (writer) |- |Young Allies
Young Allies

The Young Allies is the name of two superhero teams in the Marvel Universe....
 |Young Allies Comics #1 (July 1941) |Jack Kirby (penciller), Syd Shores
Syd Shores

Sydney Shores was an United States comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
 (inker)

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