Marvel Comics 1939-1959 Appreciation 2020

[Electricmastro]

An appreciation thread for the comic books Marvel published from the 30s through the 50s.

The comics they published during this time include:

Adventures into Terror (1950)

Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952)

All-Winners Comics (1941)

Astonishing (1951)

Battle (1951)

Battle Action (1952)

Battlefront (1952)

Battleground (1954)

Black Rider (1950)

Captain America Comics (1941)

Combat Casey (1953)

Combat Kelly (1951)

Comedy Comics (1942)

Gay Comics (1944)

Girl Confessions (1952)

Gunsmoke Western (1955)

Homer, the Happy Ghost (1955)

Human Torch Comics (1940)

Joker Comics (1942)

Journey into Mystery (1952)

Journey into Unknown Worlds (1950)

Justice (1947)

Kathy (1959)

Kid Colt Outlaw (1949)

Krazy Komics (1942)

Lorna the Jungle Girl (1954)

Love Romances (1949)

Love Tales (1949)

Lovers (1949)

Man Comics (1949)

Marines in Battle (1954)

Marvel Mystery Comics (1939)

Men’s Adventures (1950)

Millie the Model Comics (1945)

Miss America Comics (1944)

My Friend Irma (1950)

My Own Romance (1949)

Mystery Tales (1952)

Mystic (1951)

Navy Combat (1955)

Nellie the Nurse (1945)

Patsy and Hedy (1952)

Patsy and Her Pals (1953)

Patsy Walker (1945)

The Ringo Kid Western (1954)

Secret Story Romances (1953)

Spellbound (1952)

Strange Tales (1951)

Sub-Mariner Comics (1941)

Suspense (1949)

Tales of Suspense (1959)

Tales to Astonish (1959)

Terry-Toons Comics (1942)

Tessie the Typist (1944)

True Secrets (1950)

Two Gun Kid (1953)

Uncanny Tales (1952)

War Comics (1950)

Western Outlaws (1954)

Wild Western (1948)

Wyatt Earp (1955)

Young Allies Comics (1941)

[jackolover]

Captain America Comics especially the first 10 issue, were incredibly high octane.

Love Romances had great emotional tension and was a forerunner of Stan Lee’s later Marvel style

The Two Gun Kid showed an amazing harshness towards young men left to their own devices, by tragedy.

The first Namor and Submariner epic battles - was it Marvel Mystery Comics - was an eruption of the first villain, anti-hero dynamic in the then Atlas tradition. Shocking in that it portrayed New York being attacked way before 9/11.

These Tomes still fill me with the energy of those times when they were published, and no wonder they sold in the millions some of them. The artwork was rudimentary and seminal, but the symbiotic blending of art and words had been created, and was a springboard to development and evolution to all that came after. A lot of cred’s to Martin Goodman that though a harsh taskmaster, worked with what he had.

[shooshoomanjoe]

I've read a few Timely/Atlas comics but found them to be difficult to read. Lots of interesting and corny characters though.

[Electricmastro]

I've read a few Timely/Atlas comics but found them to be difficult to read. Lots of interesting and corny characters though.

Indeed, quite a number of them, with some having been published quite a bit more than others:







Source: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/t/timelycomics.htm

[K7P5V]

I enjoyed these pages from that era: