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History II
2008-03-21 15:36:19

From CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #60

Another quick bit of history that I came across while doing some research. The arttached page ran in CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #60, cover-dated January 1947, and is pretty interesting.

While generally the name of the company was Timely Comics (and that was still what the creators and freelancers referred to it as all the way into the early 1960s), every once in a while Stan and Martin Goodman would take a stab at establishing the Marvel name. This was one of those times.

It's a lot of attention to give to this new logo, especially in retrospect, with the knowledge that it only lasted a few months and never quite caught on. But it's interesting to see Stan taking a credit on the ad (with his distinctive signature no less) as well as the berakdown of the titles Timely/Marvel was publishing at this point.

More later.

Tom B

Super Rabbit, Mighty Mouse, Wacky Duck, and my favourite, Silly Tunes... were they trying to get sued?

Posted by Fetsur on 2008-03-21 16:52:21

never !!!!

Posted by notapotatoe on 2008-03-22 02:39:47

That Gay Willie Joker sounds like a helluva read.

Posted by Skippa on 2008-03-22 14:26:00

I wonder if Willie ever told his roommate?

Posted by bigdaddyhub2 on 2008-03-22 23:00:08

Captain America
Does anyone know of there is goin to be a Live action movie made? I was just wonderin. I would love to see it.
thank you

Posted by Taracarrigg on 2008-07-15 10:36:19

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