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Issue: Marvel Comics #1

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Publication Date: November 1939

Issue #1

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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue (2 Printings)

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Variant: 2nd Printing

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Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Timely Publications

On Sale Date: 1939

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN:

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Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
9 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Martin Goodman

Notes: Indicia (transcription courtesy of Frank Motler):

Vol.1, No.1, MARVEL COMICS, Oct., 1939 Published monthly by Timely Publications, publication office, 81 Spring St., Newark, N. J. Executive office, 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Art and editorial by Funnies Incorporated, 45 W. 45th St., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as Second Class Matter pending at the Post Office at Newark, N. J. Yearly subscription in U. S. and Canada, $1.50; elsewhere $2.00. No actual person is named or delineated in this magazine. Copyright, 1939 by Timely Publications. Printed in U.S.A. Vol.1, No. 1, MARVEL COMICS, Nov., 1939

[The final repetition of the volume/issue/title number with the Nov. date is present only on the 2nd printing. Some but not all issues of the second printing reportedly had the October information at least partially blacked out.]

According to Rip at the collector-society.com boards, the print runs were 80,000 on the October edition and 800,000 on the November edition.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Marvel Comics #1 [1st Printing]

Marvel Comics #1 [2nd Printing]

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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Frank R. Paul [as F. Paul] (signed)

Inker(s): Frank R. Paul [as F. Paul] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; most typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Human Torch

Character(s): The Human Torch

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Cartoon on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Fred Schwab

Penciller(s): Fred Schwab

Inker(s): Fred Schwab

Letterer(s): Fred Schwab

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Now I'll Tell One

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Five single panel gag cartoons.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Carl Burgos (signed)

Penciller(s): Carl Burgos (signed)

Inker(s): Carl Burgos (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Carl Burgos

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Human Torch

Character(s): The Human Torch (introduction and origin, an android); Professor Phineas T. Horton (introduction); Scientists' Guild; Mr. Harris (businessman); Tony Sardo (villain, introduction, death), Red (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Gentlemen of the press, I call you to my laboratory because I, Professor Horton, have a difficult problem in my latest discovery...

Synopsis: After the Scientists' Guild convinces inventor Horton to dispose of his new creation, a "human torch", a clever criminal figures out a way to use this creation for his own evil purposes.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

Notes: The Human Torch wears blue uniform in this story.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Gustavson

Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inker(s): Paul Gustavson (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Angel

Character(s): The Angel [Tom Halloway] (introduction); Lil (introduction); The Six Big Men [Gus Ronson; Mike Malone; John Dillon; Trigger Bolo; Steve Enkel; Dutch Hanson] (villains, introduction for all, all die); the Big Boss [Dr. Lang] (villain, introduction)

First Line: At the point of a gun, a group of racketeers, known as the "Six Big Men," have taken over an entire city...

Synopsis: The Angel is called in to handle a group known as the "Six Big Men" and their mysterious leader, who have taken over an entire city.

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Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Penciller(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Inker(s): Bill Everett (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Bill Everett

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Sub-Mariner

Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor] (origin); Anderson; Nelson (death); Carley (death); Princess Fen (also in flashback to 1920); Emperor Tha-Korr (unnamed); Karal; Leonard McKenzie (in narration flashback to 1920 only, unseen); Dorma (introduction)

First Line: Here is the Sub-Mariner!

Synopsis: Prince Namor, having learned what the race of surface men once did to his undersea kingdom, vows, and is encouraged, to make war on the surface dwellers.

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Pages: 12

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Al Anders ?

Penciller(s): Al Anders [as Anders] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Anders [as Anders] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Feature(s): The Masked Raider

Character(s): The Masked Raider [Jim Gardley] (introduction and origin); Lightning (Raider's horse); Steve (sheriff); Lordin (rancher); Mr. Bleck (rancher, death); Mrs. Bleck (death); Cal Brunder (villain, introduction); Slick (villain); Rowdy (villain)

First Line: Cal Brunder, powerful ruler of Cactusville, is attempting to force all the smaller ranchers to sell out to him at his own price.

Synopsis: When Cal Brunder, who has been forcing small ranchers in Cactusville to sell out to him at his own price, sends his men to the ranch of Jim Gardley, and when he won't sell, he has a phony charge of rustling leveled against him.

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Pages: 8

Jungle Terror: A Complete Adventure Story

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Art Pinajian [as Tomm Dixon] (signed)

Inker(s): Art Pinajian [as Tomm Dixon] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Character(s): Ken Masters; Professor John Roberts; Tim Roberts; Crafton (villain, death); Mike (villain, death); Slug (villain, death)

First Line: At the Florida plantation home of Professor Roberts, Ken Masters and Tim Roberts, the professor's nephew, are talking...

Synopsis: Ken and Tim are worried about Professor Roberts, who went into the Amazon jungle three months earlier, trying to locate an Indian tribe that had in its possession a diamond with hypnotic powers.

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Pages: 6

Burning Rubber

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Ray Gill [as Raymond Gill] (credited)

Penciller(s): Sam Gilman [as Gilman] (signed) (illustration)

Inker(s): Sam Gilman [as Gilman] (signed) (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: sports

Character(s): Bill Williams; Fred Turner; C. G. Clark; Ruth Clerk; Ann

Synopsis: Bill has invented a new gas feeder for his race car and is testing it out at the risk of his own life.

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Pages: 2

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Byrd (original story); Ben Thompson ? (adaptation)

Penciller(s): Ben Thompson (signed)

Inker(s): Ben Thompson (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle

Feature(s): Adventures of Ka-Zar the Great

Character(s): Ka-Zar [David Rand] (origin); John Rand (Ka-Zar's father, death); Constance Rand (death, Ka-Zar's mother); Zar (a lion); Chaka (a gorilla); Trajah (an elephant); N'Jaga (a leopard); Paul De Kraft (villain)

First Line: John Rand, young owner of a rich diamond field in the Transvaal, is flying from Johannesburg to Cairo with his wife and their three-year-old son David.

Synopsis: A plane crashes in the jungle of the Belgian Congo, and a young boy named David watches his mother die, and later his father, at the hands of Paul De Kraft. The youngster, trained in survival tactics by his father, is later renamed Ka-Zar, brother of the mighty Zar, a lion whose life he once saved.

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Pages: 12

Notes: Adapted from Bob Byrd's "King of Fang and Claw" (KA-ZAR (pulp magazine) #1).