Normally I wouldn't spend the time to comment on two consecutive golden age comic issues. But Daring Mystery Comics #2 is effectively a completely different series from issue #1- the two issues haven't a single feature in common. If anything, #2 is even more of a mess than #1, lacking any feature as strong as Joe Simon's Fiery Mask. Simon ( Read more... )

Timely Publications exploded onto the comics scene in late 1939 with Marvel Comics #1, a book that introduced two of the most popular and unusual characters of the Golden Age: Carl Burgos's Human Torch and Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner (who still gets the occasional mini-series today). It also had a pretty solid range of backup stories, from the ( Read more... )

The company that is now known as Marvel Comics entered the business with the prophetically named Marvel Comics #1, cover-dated October 1939. It's a tremendously important issue because it was immediately successful, contains characters that are still in use today, and is therefore the first appearance of the now-familiar Marvel Universe. It's ( Read more... )