Martin Goodman (publisher)
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Martin Goodman was an American publisher of pulp magazines, digest sized magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, who founded the comics magazine company Timely Comics i
Martin Goodman
The pulp magazine Uncanny Tales (May 1940), bearing Goodman's Red Circle logo
Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), featuring the Human Torch. Art by Frank R. Paul.
DC Comics
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DC Comics is an American comic book publisher owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for Detective Comics, a comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest an
Martin Goodman (publisher)
…Timely Comics in 1939. Timely Comics would go on to become Marvel Comics, one of the United States' two largest comic book publishers along with rival DC Comics. Moe Goodman, who would later adopt the name Martin, was the oldest son of 13 recorded children of Isaac Goodman (b. 1872) and Anna Gleichenhaus (b…
Cover art of the first comic book by National Allied Publications, New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 (cover date: February 1935). Unlike earlier comic book magazines series, characters in this book (such as the Western character Jack Wood) were original creations that were not taken from existing comic strips.
Action Comics #1 (June 1938) introduced Superman and helped birth the superhero genre.
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Jerry Siegel in Uniform ca 1943 cropped