Marvel Super-Heroes is the name of several comic book series and specials published by Marvel Comics .
47-485: (Redirected from Marvel Superheroes ) Marvel Super Heroes may refer to: Marvel Super-Heroes (comics) , several Marvel Comics publications Marvel Super Heroes (video game) , a 1995 arcade game Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems , a 1996 platform game Marvel Super Heroes (role-playing game) , a 1984 role-playing game Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game ,
94-523: A 1998 role-playing game The Marvel Super Heroes , a 1960s animated television series The Mighty World of Marvel , a 1972 UK comics series which was renamed Marvel Superheroes from 1979 to 1983 Lego Marvel Super Heroes , a 2013 video game based on the Lego franchise See also [ edit ] List of Marvel Comics characters Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
141-413: A job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into
188-467: A lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin,' Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'" In an appendix, however, Simon appears to reconcile the two accounts. He relates a 1989 conversation with Lee: Lee: "I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it." ... Simon: "Your Uncle Robbie brought you into
235-577: A new logo was adopted: a red disk surrounded by a black ring that bore the phrase 'A Red Circle Magazine.' But it appeared only intermittently, when someone remembered to put it on [a pulp magazine's] cover. Historian Jess Nevins , conversely, writes that, "Timely Publications [was how] Goodman's group [of companies] had become known; before this, it was known as 'Red Circle' because of the logo that Goodman had put on his pulp magazines...." The Grand Comics Database identifies 23 issues of Goodman comic books from 1944 to 1959 with Red Circle, Inc. branding, and
282-475: A publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week.... Joe Simon , in his 1990 autobiography The Comic Book Makers (cited under References, below), gives the account slightly differently: "One day [Goodman's relative known as] Uncle Robbie came to work with
329-673: 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 as editor. Simon brought along his collaborator, artist Jack Kirby , followed by artist Syd Shores . Goodman then formed Timely Comics, Inc., beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941. There
376-525: A single 1948 issue under Red Circle Magazines Corp. 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 through #159 (Aug. 1957). Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with Daring Mystery Comics #1 (Jan. 1940), Mystic Comics #1 (March 1940), Red Raven Comics #1 (Aug. 1940), The Human Torch #2 (premiering Fall 1940 with no cover date and having taken over
423-773: A try-out feature as each issue's lead. This encompassed solo stories of such supporting characters as Medusa of the Inhumans , as well as the debuts of Captain Marvel (#12), the Phantom Eagle (#16) and the Guardians of the Galaxy (#18). The Spider-Man story drawn by Ross Andru in issue #14 was originally planned as a fill-in issue of The Amazing Spider-Man but was used here when that title's regular artist John Romita Sr. recovered more quickly than anticipated from
470-457: A wrist injury. Andru would become the regular artist on The Amazing Spider-Man several years later. Under either name, this series' Golden Age reprints represented the newly emerging comic-book fandom's first exposure to some of the earliest work of such important creators as Jack Kirby , Bill Everett , and Carl Burgos , and to such long-unseen and unfamiliar characters as the Whizzer and
517-495: Is evidence that "Red Circle Comics", a name that would be used for an unrelated imprint of Archie Comics in the 1970s and 1980s – may have been a term in use as Goodman prepared to publish his first comic book. Historian Les Daniels , referring to Goodman's pulp-magazine line, describes the name Red Circle as "a halfhearted attempt to establish an identity for what was usually described loosely as 'the Goodman group' [made] when
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#1732791911645564-517: The Destroyer . Fantasy Masterpieces #10 (Aug. 1967) reprinted the entirety of the full-length All-Winners Squad story from the (unhyphenated) All Winners Comics #19 (Fall 1946). Fantasy Masterpieces #11 (Oct. 1967) re-introduced the work of the late artist Joe Maneely , a star of 1950s comics who had died in a train accident. Marvel Super-Heroes became an all-reprint magazine beginning with #21 (July 1969) (except for an original "Tales of
611-570: The Human Torch , and Paul Gustavson 's costumed detective the Angel . It also contained the first published appearance of Bill Everett 's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner , created for the unpublished movie-theater giveaway comic Motion Picture Funnies Weekly earlier that year, with the eight-page original story now expanded by four pages. Also included were Al Anders' Western hero
658-471: The Marvel UK series The Mighty World of Marvel was retitled Marvel Superheroes after a brief run under the title Marvel Comic . The name itself reappeared, without a hyphen, as part of the title of a 12-issue, company-wide crossover miniseries Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (May 1984–April 1985). The 1985-1986 sequel was titled simply Secret Wars II . The final series of this title
705-520: The Masked Raider ; the jungle lord Ka-Zar the Great , with Ben Thompson beginning a five-issue adaptation of the story "King of Fang and Claw" by Bob Byrd in Goodman's pulp magazine Ka-Zar #1 (Oct. 1936); the non-continuing-character story "Jungle Terror", featuring adventurer Ken Masters, drawn and possibly written by Art Pinajian under the quirky pseudonym "Tohm Dixon" or "Tomm Dixon" (with
752-717: The McGraw-Hill Building at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City. In 1942, it moved to the 14th floor of the Empire State Building , where it remained until 1951. In 2016, Marvel announced that Timely Comics would be the name of a new imprint of low-priced reprint comics. 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 Publications, basing it at his existing company in
799-444: The McGraw-Hill Building at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City. Goodman – whose official titles were editor, managing editor, and business manager , 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 #1 (Oct. 1939), featured the first appearances of writer-artist Carl Burgos ' android superhero ,
846-640: The Roman goddess of love, posing as a human reporter. Patsy Walker , Millie the Model , Tessie the Typist and other Timely humor titles also included Harvey Kurtzman 's "Hey Look!" one-pagers in several issues. Future Comic Book Hall of Fame artist Gene Colan , 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]
893-562: The 14th floor of the Empire State Building , where it remained until 1951. The superheroes were the products of what Timely referred to as the "adventure" bullpen. The company also 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 . Former Fleischer Studios animator Fago, who joined Timely in 1942, headed this group, which consisted through
940-435: The 1960s Marvel hero ). Other Timely characters, many seen both in modern-day retroactive-continuity appearances and in flashbacks, include the Angel , the next-most-popular character in terms of number of appearances; the Destroyer , an early creation of future Marvel chief Stan Lee ; super-speedster the Whizzer ; the flying and super-strong Miss America ; the original Vision , who inspired Marvel writer Roy Thomas in
987-476: The 1960s to become Marvel Comics . Founded in 1939, during the era called the Golden Age of comic books , "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate entities all producing the same product. The company's first publication in 1939 used Timely Publications , based at his existing company in
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#17327919116451034-696: The 1960s to create a Silver Age version of the character ; and the Blazing Skull and the Thin Man , two members of the present-day New Invaders . Just as Captain America had his teenage sidekick Bucky and DC Comics' Batman had Robin , the Human Torch acquired a young partner, Toro , in the first issue of the Torch's own magazine. The Young Allies —one of several "kid gangs" popular in comics at
1081-521: The Angel, ended that same month with #92, becoming the horror anthology Marvel Tales beginning with issue #93 (Aug. 1949). Goodman began using the globe logo of the Atlas News Company , the newsstand-distribution company he owned, on comics cover-dated Nov. 1951. In 2015, Marvel registered the trademark "Timely Comics". The following year, Marvel announced that Timely Comics would be
1128-673: 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 " and Hart's " Super Rabbit ", the cover stars of many different titles. Timely also published one of humor cartoonist Basil Wolverton 's best-known features, Powerhouse Pepper . The first issue, cover-dated January 1943, bore no number, and protagonist Pepper looked different from his more familiar visualization (when
1175-524: The Watcher" story in #23), and a regular-sized comic at the then-standard 20-cent price with #32 (Sept. 1972). This reprint series lasted through issue #105 (Jan. 1982). A second series titled Fantasy Masterpieces ran from #1-14 (Dec. 1979–Jan. 1981), reprinting truncated versions of the 1968 Silver Surfer series, and Adam Warlock stories from Strange Tales and Warlock . The 15-issue Marvel Super-Heroes (vol. 2) (May 1990–Oct. 1993)
1222-504: 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. Sub-Mariner Comics and Human Torch Comics had already ended with #32 (June 1949) and #35 (March 1949) respectively, and the company's flagship title, Marvel Mystery Comics , starring
1269-553: The era fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books . Rival publishers National Comics Publications / All-American Comics , the sister companies that would evolve into DC Comics , likewise had their own "big three": Superman and Batman plus the soon-to-debut Wonder Woman . Timely's other major competitors were Fawcett Publications (with Captain Marvel , introduced in 1940); Quality Comics (with Plastic Man and Blackhawk , both in 1941); and Lev Gleason Publications (with Daredevil , introduced in 1940 and unrelated to
1316-604: The first Marvel story by future editor-in-chief Stan Lee , the two-page text piece "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" ( Captain America Comics #3, May 1941). This summer special was a 25¢ "giant", relative to the typical 12¢ comics of the times. The first ongoing series of this name began as Fantasy Masterpieces , initially a standard-sized, 12¢ anthology reprinting " pre-superhero Marvel " monster and sci-fi / fantasy stories. With issue #3 (June 1966),
1363-532: The name in 1961. This brand extended to the company's short-lived editorial advisory board in 1948 in an effort to compete with other publishers like DC Comics and Fawcett Comics , and used the moniker Marvel Comic Group in its editorials. List of characters making multiple appearances, either in Timely Comics solely or in Timely and subsequent companies Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics . I applied for
1410-564: The name of a new imprint of low-priced reprint comics. Publisher Martin Goodman's business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of companies all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these shell companies under which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55 (May 1944). As well, some comics' covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12 (Winter 1946–47), were labeled "A Marvel Magazine" many years before Goodman would formally adopt
1457-491: The numbering from the unsuccessful Red Raven ), and Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941). Going on sale in December 1940, a year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and already showing the hero punching Hitler , that first issue sold nearly one million copies. With the hit characters Human Torch and Sub-Mariner now joined by Simon and Kirby's seminal patriotic hero Captain America , Timely had its "big three" stars of
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1504-436: The post-war era found superheroes falling out of fashion. Television 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 , Westerns , teen humor, crime and war comics, and introducing female heroes to try to attract girls and young women to read comics. In 1946, for instance, the superhero title All Select Comics
1551-485: The published signature smudged); "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 , "Burning Rubber", about auto racing . A painted cover by veteran science-fiction pulp artist Frank R. Paul featured the Human Torch, looking much different from the interior story. That initial comic, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80,000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce
1598-407: The real world.' ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby—Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman... And that
1645-488: The series returned for four issues, May–Nov. 1948) as the bullet-headed naif in the striped turtleneck sweater. Additionally, Timely in 1944 and 1945 initiated a sitcom selection of titles aimed at female readers: Millie the Model , Tessie the Typist and Nellie the Nurse . The company continued to pursue female readers later in the decade with such superheroines as Sun Girl ; the Sub-Mariner spin-off Namora ; and Venus ,
1692-479: The story from the two characters' different perspectives). After the Simon and Kirby team moved to DC late 1941, having produced Captain America Comics through issue #10 (Jan. 1942), Al Avison and Syd Shores became regular pencilers on the title, with one generally inking over the other. Stan Lee (né Stanley Lieber), a cousin of Goodman's by marriage who had been serving as an assistant since 1939, at age 16,
1739-584: 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
1786-494: The title Marvel Super Heroes . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marvel_Super_Heroes&oldid=960364737 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Marvel Super-Heroes (comics) The first
1833-418: The title was expanded to a 25-cent giant reprinting a mix of those stories and Golden Age superhero stories from Marvel's 1940s iteration as Timely Comics . Fantasy Masterpieces ran 11 issues (Feb. 1966–Oct. 1967) before being renamed Marvel Super-Heroes with #12 (Dec. 1967). While continuing with the same mix of reprint material, this first volume of Marvel Super-Heroes also began showcasing
1880-545: 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 , Moss Worthman a.k.a. Moe Worth, and future Mad magazine cartoonists Dave Berg and Al Jaffee . Features from this department include "Dinky" and "Frenchy Rabbit" in Terrytoons Comics ; "Floop and Skilly Boo" in Comedy Comics ; "Posty
1927-563: Was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since. However, in his 2002 autobiography, Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee (cited under References, below), he says: My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at
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1974-554: Was changed to Blonde Phantom Comics , and now starred a masked secretary who fought crime in an evening gown . 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
2021-405: Was in the last row on my side, and there was another row on the other side. Dan DeCarlo was there, several other people – Vince Alascia was an inker; Rudy LaPick sat right behind me," with Mike Sekowsky "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 –
2068-700: 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 would substitute during Lee's World War II military service . The staff at that time, Fago recalled, was, " Mike Sekowsky . Ed Winiarski . Gary Keller was a production assistant and letterer. Ernest Hart and Kin Platt were writers, but they worked freelance; Hart also drew. George Klein , Syd Shores, Vince Alascia , Dave Gantz , and Chris Rule were there, too". In 1942, Goodman moved his publisher operations to
2115-3200: Was published quarterly and generally printed "inventory stories," those assigned to serve as emergency filler. The first issue featured a Brother Voodoo story drawn by Fred Hembeck in a dramatic style rather than his usual "cartoony" art. Collected in Moon Knight Omnibus Vol. 2 Collected in Marvel Masterworks: Brother Voodoo Collected in Speedball: The Masked Marvel Collected in New Mutants Omnibus Volume 3 Collected in Black Panther Epic Collection Volume 3: Panther's Prey Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda Omnibus Collected in Speedball: The Masked Marvel Collected in Marvel Masterworks Captain Marvel Vol 6 Collected in Wonder Man Omnibus Vol. 1 Collected in The Thing Omnibus Vol 1 Collected in Speedball: The Masked Marvel Collected in She-Hulk Epic Collection Volume 4: The Cosmic Squish Principle Collected in X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda Omnibus Collected in Power Pack Classic Omnibus Vol 2 Collected in Speedball: The Masked Marvel Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, vol. 1: Squirrel Power and The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Ms. Marvel Epic Collection: The Woman Who Fell to Earth Collected in Ms. Marvel Epic Collection: The Woman Who Fell to Earth Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Iron Man Epic Collection: The Return of Tony Stark Collected in Thor: The Warriors Three: The Complete Collection In September 1979,
2162-482: Was the one-shot Marvel Super Heroes Special #1 (Oct. 1966) produced as a tie-in to The Marvel Super Heroes animated television program, reprinting Daredevil #1 (April 1964) and The Avengers #2 (Nov. 1963), plus two stories from the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call Golden Age of comic books : "The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner Meet" ( Marvel Mystery Comics #8, June 1940), and
2209-399: Was the six-issue Marvel Super-Heroes Megazine (Oct. 1994–March 1995), a 100-page book reprinting 1970s and 1980s Fantastic Four , Daredevil, Iron Man and Hulk stories in each issue. Timely Comics 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
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