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Joseph William Marek
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Reading
Golden Age Marvels
isn’t like reading mid-’60s
Fantastic Four
. If you expect that you’re going to be disappointed. In fact if you read too many
Golden Age
or
Atlas Era
stories in a row you might feel your brain turning into pablum. But what you will find is
history
. This is how Marvel began. This is how it evolved. This is what set the stage for everything that came later.
The
Golden Age Marvel Comics Omnibus
starts with a long and informative introduction by Will Murray: Martin Goodman was born in Brooklyn and only had a fourth grade education, but he was fascinated by magazines; as a child he created his own ersatz magazines. As an adult he worked first in Hugo Gernsback’s circulation department, then with Eastern Distribution. Through the ups and downs of Depression era publishing and distribution this led to the founding of Independent News.
Goodman founded his own company, Newsstand Publications, and did reprint pulp magazines (later with new material) with names like
All Star Detective, All Star Fiction, Best Love, Best Sports, Best Western, Black Book Detective, Black Rider Western, Complete Adventure, Complete Sport, Complete Western Book, Detective Mysteries, Detective Short Stories, Dynamic Science Stories, Gunsmoke Western, Ka-Zar, Marvel Science Stories, Mystery Tales, Quick-Trigger Western Novel, Real Confessions, Real Sports, Romantic Love Secrets, Six-Gun Western, Sky Devils, Sports Action, Star Sports, Top-Notch Detective, Top-Notch Western, True Crime, Two-Gun Western Novels, Uncanny Tales, Western Fiction, Western Novels and Short Stories, Western Short Stories, Western Supernovel, Wild Western Novels,
and perhaps others.
I thought it would have been a kick if Goodman had published Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), since
Conan
was later a big hit for Marvel. Howard appeared in
Complete Stories, Sport Story, Star Western
and
Top-Notch
among many other titles; but these sound like they might have been Goodman pulps.
Goodman became aware of the large print-runs (
and sales
) being racked up by the comic book industry and was put in touch with Lloyd Jacquet of
Funnies, Inc.
, that had just published
Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly
.
Together they created and published
Marvel Comics
#1. The initial print run was 80,000 copies and it sold out within a week!
Murray’s article goes on for some pages (I’ve paraphrased it); but I wanted to layout the history of what came first.
Onward!
Anarchy and Chaos are the natural state of the human race. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And Chaos must always ultimately triumph.
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