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{{Short description|American comic book publisher}}
{{Infobox company
| name          = Timely Comics
| former_name   = 
| logo          = Timely Comics Inc. logo.png
| logo_caption  = The original Timely Comics logo.
| type          = [[Division (business)|Division]]
| fate          = Rebranded as [[Atlas Comics (1950s)|Atlas Comics]] in 1951
| successor     = Atlas Comics, [[Marvel Comics]]
| foundation    = {{Start date and age|1939}} 
| defunct       = {{Start date and age|1950}}
| location      = [[Manhattan]], New York City
| industry      = Publishing
| key_people    = [[Martin Goodman (publisher)|Martin Goodman]]
| products      = Comic books, magazine
| num_employees = 
| parent        = 
| subsid        = 
}}
'''Timely Comics''' was the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher [[Martin Goodman (publisher)|Martin Goodman]], and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become [[Marvel Comics]].<ref name=daniels27>{{cite book|last=Daniels |first= Les| author-link= Les Daniels | title= Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics | publisher = Harry N. Abrams |location= New York | year= 1991 | isbn= 0-8109-3821-9 | pages = 27 & 32–33}} "Timely Publications became the name under which Goodman first published a comic book line. He eventually created a number of companies to publish comics ... but Timely was the name by which Goodman's Golden Age comics were known." "Marvel wasn't always Marvel; in the early 1940s the company was known as Timely Comics, and some covers bore this shield."</ref>

Founded in 1939, during the era called the [[Golden Age of Comic Books]], "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of [[pulp magazine]] publisher Goodman, whose [[business strategy]] involved having a multitude of [[corporation|corporate]] entities all producing the same product.<ref name=daniels27>{{cite book|last=Daniels |first= Les| author-link= Les Daniels | title= Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics | publisher = Harry N. Abrams |location= New York | year= 1991 | isbn= 0-8109-3821-9 | pages = 27 & 32–33}} "Timely Publications became the name under which Goodman first published a comic book line. He eventually created a number of companies to publish comics ... but Timely was the name by which Goodman's Golden Age comics were known." "Marvel wasn't always Marvel; in the early 1940s the company was known as Timely Comics, and some covers bore this shield."</ref> The company's first publication in 1939 used '''Timely Publications'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->,<ref name=marvelcomics1>Postal indicia in issue, per [http://www.comics.org/issue/556/ ''Marvel Comics'' #1 &#91;1st printing&#93; (October 1939)] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]: "Vol.1, No.1, MARVEL COMICS, Oct., 1939 Published monthly by Timely Publications, ... Art and editorial by Funnies Incorporated..."</ref><ref name="MMC4">Per statement of ownership, dated October 2, 1939, published in ''[[Marvel Mystery Comics]]'' #4 (Feb. 1940), p. 40; reprinted in ''[[Marvel Masterworks]]: Golden Age Marvel Comics'' Volume 1 (Marvel Comics, 2004, {{ISBN|0-7851-1609-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7851-1609-7}}), p. 239</ref> based at his existing company in the [[330 West 42nd Street|McGraw-Hill Building]] at 330 West [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd Street]] in New York City. In 1942, it moved to the 14th floor of the [[Empire State Building]], where it remained until 1951. In 2016, Marvel announced that Timely Comics would be the name of a new imprint of low-priced reprint comics.

==Creation==

In 1939, with the emerging [[Mass media|medium]] of comic books proving hugely popular, and the first [[superhero]]es setting the trend, [[pulp-magazine]] publisher [[Martin Goodman (publisher)|Martin Goodman]] founded Timely Publications, basing it at his existing company in the [[330 West 42nd Street|McGraw-Hill Building]] at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City. Goodman – whose official titles were editor, managing editor, and [[business manager]], with Abraham Goodman officially listed as publisher<ref name="MMC4"/>  – contracted with the newly formed [[comic book packager]] [[Funnies, Inc.]] to supply material.<ref name=marvelcomics1 />

His first effort, ''[[Marvel Mystery Comics|Marvel Comics]]'' #1 (Oct. 1939), featured the [[List of first appearances in Marvel Comics publications|first appearances]] of writer-artist [[Carl Burgos]]' [[android (robot)|android]] [[superhero]], the [[Human Torch (android)|Human Torch]], and [[Paul Gustavson]]'s costumed detective the [[Angel (Thomas Halloway)|Angel]]. It also contained the first published appearance of [[Bill Everett]]'s [[anti-hero]] [[Namor the Sub-Mariner]], created for the unpublished movie-theater giveaway comic ''[[Motion Picture Funnies Weekly]]'' earlier that year, with the eight-page original story now expanded by four pages.<ref name=gcdmc1 />

Also included were Al Anders' [[Western comics|Western]] hero the [[Masked Raider]]; the jungle lord [[Ka-Zar (David Rand)|Ka-Zar the Great]],<ref>Unrelated to the Marvel Comics jungle lord [[Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder)|Ka-Zar]] introduced in ''[[Uncanny X-Men|The X-Men]]'' #10 (March 1965)</ref> with [[Ben Thompson (comics)|Ben Thompson]] beginning a five-issue adaptation of the story "King of Fang and Claw" by Bob Byrd in Goodman's pulp magazine ''Ka-Zar'' #1 (Oct. 1936);<ref>[http://www.toonopedia.com/kazar.htm Ka-Zar] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527044331/https://www.webcitation.org/6UPgIPFZu?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/kazar.htm Archived] from the original on November 27, 2014.</ref> the non-continuing-character story "Jungle Terror", featuring adventurer Ken Masters, drawn and possibly written by [[Art Pinajian]] under the quirky pseudonym "Tohm Dixon" or "Tomm Dixon" (with the published signature smudged); "Now I'll Tell One", five single-panel, black-and-white gag cartoons by [[Fred Schwab]], on the inside front cover; and a two-page prose story by [[Ray Gill (comics)|Ray Gill]], "Burning Rubber", about [[auto racing]].  A painted cover by veteran science-fiction pulp artist [[Frank R. Paul]] featured the Human Torch, looking much different from the interior story.<ref name=gcdmc1>[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=556 ''Marvel Comics'' #1] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref><ref>''Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics''. The smudged Dixon signature is reprinted on page 46.</ref>

[[Image:MarvelComics1.jpg|thumb|''[[Marvel Mystery Comics|Marvel Comics]]'' #1 (Oct. 1939), the first comic book from [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] predecessor Timely Comics. Cover art by [[Frank R. Paul]].]]
That initial comic, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80,000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939. The latter is identical except for a black bar over the October date in the inside-front-cover indicia, and the November date added at the end.<ref name=gcdmc1 /> That sold approximately 800,000 copies.<ref name="fromm">Per researcher Keif Fromm, ''Alter Ego'' #49, p. 4 (caption)</ref> With a hit on his hands, Goodman began assembling an in-house staff, hiring Funnies, Inc. writer-artist [[Joe Simon]] as editor. Simon brought along his collaborator, artist [[Jack Kirby]], followed by artist [[Syd Shores]].<ref name=mylife113-14>{{cite book|title=Joe Simon: My Life in Comics|author-link=Joe Simon|first=Joe |last=Simon|publisher=[[Titan Books]]|year= 2011|location=London, UK| isbn= 978-1-84576-930-7 | page = 109}}</ref> Goodman then formed Timely Comics, Inc., beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/indicia_publisher/98/ "Marvel : Timely Publications (Indicia Publisher)"] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]. "This is the original business name under which Martin Goodman began publishing comics in 1939. It was used on all issues up to and including those cover-dated March 1941 or Winter 1940–1941, spanning the period from ''[[Marvel Mystery Comics|Marvel Comics]]'' #1 to ''[[Captain America Comics]]'' #1. It was replaced by Timely Comics, Inc. starting with all issues cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941."</ref>

There is evidence that "Red Circle Comics", a name that would be used for an [[Red Circle Comics|unrelated imprint]] of [[Archie Comics]] in the 1970s and 1980s – may have been a term in use as Goodman prepared to publish his first comic book. Historian [[Les Daniels]], referring to Goodman's pulp-magazine line, describes the name [[Red Circle (publishing)|Red Circle]] as "a halfhearted attempt to establish an identity for what was usually described loosely as 'the Goodman group' [made] when a new logo was adopted: a red disk surrounded by a black ring that bore the phrase 'A Red Circle Magazine.' But it appeared only intermittently, when someone remembered to put it on [a pulp magazine's] cover.<ref>Daniels, ''Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics'', p. 21</ref> Historian [[Jess Nevins]], conversely, writes that, "Timely Publications [was how] Goodman's group [of companies] had become known; before this, it was known as 'Red Circle' because of the logo that Goodman had put on his pulp magazines...."<ref>{{cite web|author-link=Jess Nevins|title=The Timely Comics Story|url=http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/Timely3.htm|first=Jess|last=Nevins|access-date=16 August 2011|page=3: "Antebellum" Part I"|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115214342/http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/Timely3.htm|archive-date=November 15, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The [[Grand Comics Database]] identifies 23 issues of Goodman comic books from 1944 to 1959 with Red Circle, Inc. branding,<ref>[http://www.comics.org/indicia_publisher/498/ Marvel : Red Circle Magazines, Inc. (Indicia / Colophon Publisher)] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref> and a single 1948 issue under Red Circle Magazines Corp.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/indicia_publisher/4157/ Marvel : Red Circle Magazines Corp. (Indicia / Colophon Publisher)] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>

==Golden Age of Comic Books==
''Marvel Comics'' was rechristened ''Marvel Mystery Comics'' with issue #2 (Dec. 1939); the magazine would continue under that title through #92 (June 1949) before becoming ''[[Marvel Tales (1949–1957)|Marvel Tales]]'' through #159 (Aug. 1957). Timely began publishing additional series, beginning with ''[[Daring Mystery Comics]]'' #1 (Jan. 1940), ''[[Mystic Comics]]'' #1 (March 1940), ''[[Red Raven Comics]]'' #1 (Aug. 1940), ''The Human Torch'' #2 (premiering Fall 1940 with no [[cover date]] and having taken over the numbering from the unsuccessful ''Red Raven''), and ''[[Captain America Comics]]'' #1 (March 1941). Going on sale in December 1940, a year before the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] and already showing the hero punching [[Hitler]], that first issue sold nearly one million copies.<ref name="fromm" />

With the hit characters Human Torch and Sub-Mariner now joined by Simon and Kirby's seminal patriotic hero [[Captain America]], Timely had its "big three" stars of the era fans and historians call the [[Golden Age of Comic Books]]. Rival publishers [[National Comics Publications]] / [[All-American Comics]], the sister companies that would evolve into [[DC Comics]], likewise had their own "big three": Superman and [[Batman]] plus the soon-to-debut [[Wonder Woman]]. Timely's other major competitors were [[Fawcett Publications]] (with [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]], introduced in 1940); [[Quality Comics]] (with [[Plastic Man]] and [[Blackhawk (DC Comics)|Blackhawk]], both in 1941); and [[Lev Gleason Publications]] (with [[Daredevil (Lev Gleason Publications)|Daredevil]], introduced in 1940 and unrelated to [[Daredevil (Marvel Comics series)|the 1960s Marvel hero]]).
[[File:Captain America Comics-1 (March 1941 Timely Comics).jpg|thumb|left|''[[Captain America Comics]]'' #1 (March 1941), art by [[Jack Kirby]] (penciler) <!--credits per GCD; Jack Kirby Museum no longer lists credits-->]]
Other Timely characters, many seen both in modern-day [[retroactive-continuity]] appearances and in flashbacks, include the [[Angel (Thomas Halloway)|Angel]], the next-most-popular character in terms of number of appearances; the [[Destroyer (Timely Comics)|Destroyer]], an early creation of future Marvel chief [[Stan Lee]]; super-speedster the [[Whizzer (Robert Frank)|Whizzer]]; the flying and super-strong [[Miss America (Madeline Joyce)|Miss America]]; the original [[Vision (Timely Comics)|Vision]], who inspired Marvel writer [[Roy Thomas]] in the 1960s to create a [[Silver Age of comic books|Silver Age]] [[Vision (Marvel Comics)|version of the character]]; and the [[Blazing Skull]] and the [[Thin Man (comics)|Thin Man]], two members of the present-day [[Invaders (comics)#Modern-Day|New Invaders]].

Just as Captain America had his teenage sidekick [[Bucky (Marvel Comics)|Bucky]] and DC Comics' Batman had [[Robin (comics)|Robin]], the Human Torch acquired a young partner, [[Toro (comics)|Toro]], in the first issue of the Torch's own magazine. The [[Young Allies (Marvel Comics)|Young Allies]]—one of several "kid gangs" popular in comics at the time—debuted under the rubric the Sentinels of Liberty in a text story in ''Captain America Comics'' #4 (June 1941) before making it to the comics pages themselves the following issue, and then eventually into their own title.

Seeing a natural "fire and water" theme, Timely was responsible for comic books' first major crossover, with a two-issue battle between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner that spanned ''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #8–9 (telling the story from the two characters' different perspectives).

After the Simon and Kirby team moved to DC late 1941, having produced ''Captain America Comics'' through issue #10 (Jan. 1942), [[Al Avison]] and [[Syd Shores]] became regular [[penciler]]s on the title, with one generally [[inker|inking]] over the other. [[Stan Lee]] (né Stanley Lieber), a cousin of Goodman's by marriage who had been serving as an assistant since 1939, at age 16,{{refn| Lee's account of how he began working for Marvel's predecessor, Timely, has varied. He has said in lectures and elsewhere that he simply answered a newspaper ad seeking a publishing assistant, not knowing it involved comics, let alone his cousin Jean's husband, Martin Goodman:
{{quote|I applied for a job in a publishing company ... I didn't even know they published comics. I was fresh out of high school, and I wanted to get into the publishing business, if I could. There was an ad in the paper that said, "Assistant Wanted in a Publishing House." When I found out that they wanted me to assist in comics, I figured, 'Well, I'll stay here for a little while and get some experience, and then I'll get out into the real world.' ... I just wanted to know, 'What do you do in a publishing company?' How do you write? ... How do you publish? I was an assistant. There were two people there named Joe Simon and Jack Kirby—Joe was sort-of the editor/artist/writer, and Jack was the artist/writer. Joe was the senior member. They were turning out most of the artwork. Then there was the publisher, Martin Goodman... And that was about the only staff that I was involved with. After a while, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby left. I was about 17 years old [sic], and Martin Goodman said to me, 'Do you think you can hold down the job of editor until I can find a real person?' When you're 17, what do you know? I said, 'Sure! I can do it!' I think he forgot about me, because I stayed there ever since.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/035/035881p1.html |publisher= IGN FilmForce |date= June 26, 2000 |title= Interview with Stan Lee (Part 1 of 5)| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150115001855/http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/26/interview-with-stan-lee-part-1-of-5 | archive-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
However, in his 2002 autobiography, ''Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee'' (cited under References, below), he says:
{{quote|My uncle, Robbie Solomon, told me they might be able to use someone at a publishing company where he worked. The idea of being involved in publishing definitely appealed to me. ... So I contacted the man Robbie said did the hiring, Joe Simon, and applied for a job. He took me on and I began working as a gofer for eight dollars a week....}}
[[Joe Simon]], in his 1990 autobiography ''The Comic Book Makers'' (cited under References, below), gives the account slightly differently: "One day [Goodman's relative known as] Uncle Robbie came to work with a lanky 17-year-old in tow. 'This is Stanley Lieber, Martin's wife's cousin,' Uncle Robbie said. 'Martin wants you to keep him busy.'"

In an appendix, however, Simon appears to reconcile the two accounts. He relates a 1989 conversation with Lee:
{{quote
|Lee: "I've been saying this [classified-ad] story for years, but apparently it isn't so. And I can't remember because I['ve] said it so long now that I believe it."<br>
...<br>
Simon: "Your Uncle Robbie brought you into the office one day and he said, 'This is Martin Goodman's wife's nephew.' [sic] ... You were seventeen years old."<br><br>
Lee: "Sixteen and a half!"<br><br>
Simon: "Well, Stan, you told me seventeen. You were probably trying to be older.... I did hire you."}}|group=n}} was promoted to interim editor just shy of his 19th birthday. Showing a knack for the business, Lee stayed on for decades, eventually becoming Marvel Comics' publisher in 1972. Fellow Timely staffer [[Vincent Fago]] would substitute during Lee's [[World War II]] [[military service]].

The staff at that time, Fago recalled, was, "[[Mike Sekowsky]]. [[Ed Winiarski]]. [[Gary Keller (comics)|Gary Keller]] was a production assistant and letterer. [[Ernie Hart|Ernest Hart]] and [[Kin Platt]] were writers, but they worked freelance; Hart also drew. [[George Klein (comics)|George Klein]], Syd Shores, [[Vince Alascia]], [[Dave Gantz]], and [[Chris Rule]] were there, too".<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.twomorrows.com/alterego/articles/11fago.html | title = I Let People Do Their Jobs!': A Conversation with Vince Fago—Artist, writer, and Third Editor-in-Chief of Timely/Marvel Comics | work = [[Alter Ego (magazine)|Alter Ego]] | volume = 3 | number = 11 | date = November 2001 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090623025554/http://www.twomorrows.com/alterego/articles/11fago.html | archive-date = June 23, 2009 | publisher = [[TwoMorrows Publishing]] | url-status = live | df = mdy-all }}</ref>

In 1942, Goodman moved his publisher operations to the 14th floor of the [[Empire State Building]], where it remained until 1951.<ref name="mnyc">{{cite book | last = Sanderson | first = Peter | title = The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City | publisher = [[Pocket Books]] | year = 2007 | location = New York City | pages = 52–61 | isbn = 978-1-4165-3141-8}}</ref>

==Funny animals, and people==


The superheroes were the products of what Timely referred to as the "adventure" bullpen. The company also developed an "animator" bullpen creating such movie tie-in and original [[talking animals in fiction|talking animal]] comics as ''[[Terrytoons|Terrytoons Comics]]'', ''[[Mighty Mouse]]'', ''[[All Surprise Comics]]'', ''[[Super Rabbit|Super Rabbit Comics]]'', ''Funny Frolics'', and ''Funny Tunes,'' renamed  ''Animated Funny Comic-Tunes''. Former [[Fleischer Studios]] animator Fago, who joined Timely in 1942, headed this group, which consisted through the years of such writer/artists as Hart, Gantz, Klein, Platt, Rule, Sekowsky, [[Frank Carin]] (né Carino), [[Bob Deschamps]], [[Chad Grothkopf]], [[Pauline Loth]], [[Jim Mooney]], [[Moss Worthman]] a.k.a. Moe Worth, and future ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine cartoonists [[Dave Berg (cartoonist)|Dave Berg]] and [[Al Jaffee]].

Features from this department include "Dinky" and "Frenchy Rabbit" in ''Terrytoons Comics''; "Floop and Skilly Boo" in ''Comedy Comics''; "Posty the Pelican Postman" in ''Krazy Komics'' and other titles; "Krazy Krow" in that character's eponymous comic; "Tubby an' Tack", in various comics; and the most popular of these features, Jaffee's "[[Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal]]" and Hart's "[[Super Rabbit (comics)|Super Rabbit]]", the cover stars of many different titles. Timely also published one of humor [[cartoonist]] [[Basil Wolverton]]'s best-known features, ''[[Powerhouse Pepper]]''. The first issue, cover-dated January 1943, bore no number, and [[protagonist]] Pepper looked different from his more familiar visualization (when the series returned for four issues, May–Nov. 1948) as the bullet-headed naif in the striped turtleneck sweater.

Additionally, Timely in 1944 and 1945 initiated a sitcom selection of titles aimed at female readers: ''[[Millie the Model]]'', ''Tessie the Typist'' and ''Nellie the Nurse''. The company continued to pursue female readers later in the decade with such superheroines as [[Sun Girl (Marvel Comics)|Sun Girl]]; the Sub-Mariner spin-off [[Namora]]; and [[Venus (Marvel Comics)|Venus]], the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] of love, posing as a human reporter.<ref name=Roninp47>{{cite book|last=Ro|first=Ronin|title=Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution|year=2004|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=CFhbqswztWkC&dq=goodman+teenage+girls+to+identify&pg=PA47 47]}}</ref> ''[[Patsy Walker]]'', ''Millie the Model'', ''Tessie the Typist'' and other Timely humor titles also included [[Harvey Kurtzman]]'s "Hey Look!" one-pagers in several issues.<ref>{{cite book|last1 = Kitchen|first1 = Denis|author-link1 = Denis Kitchen|last2 = Buhle|first2 = Paul|title = Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created ''Mad'' and Revolutionized Humor in America|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CV85LQAACAAJ|year = 2009|publisher = [[Abrams Books|Harry N. Abrams]] |isbn = 978-0-8109-7296-4|page = 23}}</ref><ref>[http://www.comics.org/feature/name/Hey%20Look/sort/chrono/ "Hey Look!"] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>

Future [[List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame|Comic Book Hall of Fame]] artist [[Gene Colan]], a Marvel mainstay from 1946 on, recalled that, "The atmosphere at Timely was very good, very funny. ... [I worked in] a big art room and there were about 20 artists in there, all stacked up. [[Syd Shores|Syd [Shores]]] was in the last row on my side, and there was another row on the other side. [[Dan DeCarlo]] was there, several other people – [[Vince Alascia]] was an inker; [[Rudy LaPick]] sat right behind me," with [[Mike Sekowsky]] "in another room".<ref>Gene Colan interview,  ''Alter Ego'' # 52 (March 2006), pp. 66–67</ref>

Yet after the wartime boom years – when superheroes had been new and inspirational, and comics provided cheap entertainment for millions of children, soldiers and others – the post-war era found superheroes falling out of fashion. Television and [[mass market paperback]] books now also competed for readers and [[leisure time]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Wright|first= Bradford W.|title= Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America|publisher= The [[Johns Hopkins University]] Press|year= 2001|isbn= 978-0-8018-6514-5|page= [https://archive.org/details/comicbooknationt00wrig/page/57 57]|url= https://archive.org/details/comicbooknationt00wrig/page/57}}</ref> Goodman began turning to a wider variety of [[genres]] than ever, emphasizing [[horror fiction|horror]], [[Western fiction|Westerns]], teen humor, [[crime fiction|crime]] and war comics, and introducing female heroes to try to attract girls and young women to read comics. In 1946, for instance, the superhero title ''All Select Comics'' was changed to ''Blonde Phantom Comics'', and now starred a masked secretary who fought crime in an [[evening gown]]. That same year, ''Kid Komics'' eliminated its stars and became ''Kid Movie Comics''. ''All Winners Comics'' became ''All Teen Comics'' in January 1947. Timely eliminated virtually all its staff positions in 1948.

==Time after Timely==
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| logo          = Timely Comics logo.png
| logo_caption  = The revised Timely Comics label
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| foundation    = 2015
| location      = [[United States]]
| industry      = Publishing
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The precise end-point of the Golden Age of comics is vague, but for Timely, at least, it appears to have ended with the cancellation of ''Captain America Comics'' at issue #75 (Feb. 1950) –  by which time the series had already been ''Captain America's Weird Tales'' for two issues, with the finale featuring merely anthological horror/suspense tales and no superheroes. ''Sub-Mariner Comics'' and ''Human Torch Comics'' had already ended with #32 (June 1949) and #35 (March 1949) respectively, and the company's flagship title, ''[[Marvel Mystery Comics]]'', starring the Angel, ended that same month with #92, becoming the [[horror fiction|horror]] anthology ''[[Marvel Tales (1949–1957)|Marvel Tales]]'' beginning with issue #93 (Aug. 1949). Goodman began using the globe logo of the [[Atlas Comics (1950s)|Atlas News Company]],<ref name=stjames>{{cite book|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Marvel-Entertainment-Group-Inc-Company-History.html |chapter=Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc.|title= International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 10| publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] / St. James Press, via FundingUniverse.com|year= 1995|location=[[Farmington Hills, Michigan|Farmington Hills]], Michigan| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711054637/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Marvel-Entertainment-Group-Inc-Company-History.html| archive-date=July 11, 2011|access-date=September 28, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> the newsstand-distribution company he owned, on comics cover-dated Nov. 1951.<ref name=gcdatlasglobe>[http://www.comics.org/brand/93/ Marvel : Atlas <nowiki>[wireframe globe]</nowiki> (Brand)] at the Grand Comics Database</ref>
[[File:All New All Different Avengers.jpg|thumb|right|''All New All Different Avengers'' #1 (Nov. 2015). Cover art by [[Alex Ross]].]]
In 2015, Marvel registered the [[trademark]] "Timely Comics".<ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/18/after-74-years-marvel-registers-timely-comics-trademark/| title=After 74 Years, Marvel Registers Timely Comics Trademark| date= May 18, 2015 | access-date= May 21, 2015| author-link= Rich Johnston| first=Rich|last= Johnston| publisher=BleedingCool.com | archive-date= May 19, 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150519160133/http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/05/18/after-74-years-marvel-registers-timely-comics-trademark/ | url-status=live}}</ref> The following year, Marvel announced that Timely Comics would be the name of a new imprint of low-priced reprint comics.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Arrant|first1=Chris|title=Marvel Relaunches Timely Comics To Bolster 'All-New All-Different' Titles|url=http://www.newsarama.com/28166-marvel-relaunches-timely-comics-to-bolster-all-new-all-different-titles.html|access-date=September 14, 2016|work=Newsarama|publisher=Purch|date=February 26, 2016}}</ref>

==Marvel branding==
Publisher Martin Goodman's business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of companies all operating out of the same office and with the same staff.<ref name=daniels27 /> One of these shell companies under which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least ''[[Marvel Mystery Comics]]'' #55 (May 1944). As well, some comics' covers, such as ''All Surprise Comics'' #12 (Winter 1946–47), were labeled "A Marvel Magazine" many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/75617/cover/4/ Cover, ''All Surprise Comics'' #12] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref> This brand extended to the company's short-lived editorial advisory board in 1948 in an effort to compete with other publishers like [[DC Comics]] and [[Fawcett Comics]], and used the moniker Marvel Comic Group in its editorials.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seduction of the Innocent: More Anti-Comics Items |url=http://www.lostsoti.org/MoreAntiComics.htm |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=www.lostsoti.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 8, 2021 |title=TheComicBooks.com - The History of Graphic Novels |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308020359/http://www.thecomicbooks.com/nsp1-21.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://www.thecomicbooks.com/nsp1-21.html |archive-date=July 12, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=V |first=Doc |date=2011-02-06 |title=Timely-Atlas-Comics: Part 1: Fredric Wertham, Censorship & the Timely Anti-Wertham Editorials |url=http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2011/02/frederic-wertham-censorship-anti.html |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=Timely-Atlas-Comics}}</ref>

==Timely characters and creators==
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{{Main|List of Timely and Atlas Comics publications}}
''List of characters making multiple appearances, either in Timely Comics solely or in Timely and subsequent companies Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics''.

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!width=25%| Debut
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|-
|[[Namor the Sub-Mariner|Sub-Mariner]]
|''Motion Picture Funnies Weekly'' #1 (April, 1939)
|''Fantastic Four'' #4 (May 1962)
|''[[Bill Everett]]'' (writer/artist)
|-
|American Ace
|''Motion Picture Funnies Weekly'' #1 (April, 1939)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #4 (Nov. 2011)
|Paul J. Lauretta (penciler). Writer unknown.<ref name=gcd-marvelmystery2>[http://www.comics.org/issue/580/ ''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #2] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Angel (Thomas Halloway)|Angel]]
|''[[Marvel Mystery Comics|Marvel Comics]]'' #1 (Nov. 1939)
|''[[Avengers (comics)|The Avengers]]'' #97 (March 1972);<ref name=sim>Simulacrum only</ref><br/>''[[U.S. Agent (comics)|U.S. Agent]]'' #3 (Aug. 1993)
|[[Paul Gustavson]] (artist). Writer unknown.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bails|first=Jerry|title=Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999: Paul Gustavson|url=http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=GUSTAVSON%2c+PAUL|access-date=April 14, 2013}}</ref><ref>The writer-creator credit is unconfirmed. Historian [[Don Markstein]] in the [http://www.toonopedia.com/angel1.htm character's entry] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]] ([https://archive.today/20240525203317/https://www.webcitation.org/66fvZxcyj?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/angel1.htm Archived] from the original on April 4, 2012) writes, "The character was created by cartoonist Paul Gustavson, who wrote and drew his first adventure as well as many later ones." The [[Grand Comics Database]]'s [http://www.comics.org/issue/556/ entry for ''Marvel Comics'' #1] gives credit as "[[Ray Gill]] ?"</ref>
|- 
|Archie the Gruesome
|''Comedy Comics'' #10 (Jun. 1942)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|
|-
|[[Black Marvel]]
|''[[Mystic Comics]]'' #5 (March 1941)
|''Slingers'' #1 (Dec. 1998)
|[[Al Gabriele]] (penciller-inker). Writer unknown but not Stan Lee as often mis-credited.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1315/#18865 ''Mystic Comics'' #5] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Black Widow (Claire Voyant)|Black Widow]]
|''Mystic Comics'' #4 (Aug. 1940)
|''Marvels'' #1 (Jan. 1994)
|[[George Kapitan]] (writer), [[Harry Sahle]] (penciller)<ref name=gcd-mystic4>[http://www.comics.org/issue/950/ ''Mystic Comics'' #4] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Blazing Skull]]
|''Mystic Comics'' #5 (March 1941)
|''The Avengers'' #97 (March 1972);<ref name=sim /> ''Invaders'' #2 (1993)
|Bob Davis (writer-penciler)<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1315/#18872 ''Mystic Comics'' #5] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Blonde Phantom]]
|''[[All Select Comics]]'' #11 (Fall 1946)
|''[[The Sensational She-Hulk]]'' #4 (July 1989)
|Stan Lee (writer), [[Syd Shores]] (penciller)<ref name=gcd-allselect11>[http://www.comics.org/issue/5394/#56582 ''All Select Comics'' #11] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|-
|[[Blue Blade]]
|''[[U.S.A. Comics]]'' #5 (Summer 1942)
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|Unknown writer and artist.<ref name=gcd-usacomics5>[http://www.comics.org/issue/2289/ ''USA Comics'' #5] at the [[Grand Comics Database]].</ref>
|-
|Blue Blaze
|''Mystic Comics'' #1 (March 1940)
|
|Harry Douglas (writer-penciler), signed "Harry / Douglas", leading to numerous theories of two creators or other pseudonym situations which have proven incorrect.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/702/#12013 ''Mystic Comics'' #1] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Bucky Barnes]]
|''[[Captain America Comics]]'' #1 (March 1941)
|As Winter Soldier:<br>''Captain America'' vol. 5, #1 (Jan. 2005)
|[[Joe Simon]] (writer), [[Jack Kirby]] (penciller)<ref name=gcd-captamerica1>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1313/ ''Captain America Comics'' #1] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Blue Diamond (comics)|Blue Diamond]]
|''[[Daring Mystery Comics]]'' #7 (April 1941)
|''Marvel Premiere'' #29 (April 1976)
|[[Ben Thompson (comics)|Ben Thompson]] (penciller). Unknown writer.<ref name=gcd-daringmystery7>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1362/ ''Daring Mystery Comics'' #7] t the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Captain America]]
|''Captain America Comics #1'' (March 1941)
|''The Avengers'' #4 (March 1964)
|Joe Simon (writer), Jack Kirby (penciller)<ref name=gcd-captamerica1 />
|-
|Captain Terror
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #2 (Nov. 1941)
|''Captain America'' #442 (Aug. 1995)
|Mike Suchorsky (penciller). Unknown writer.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1779/ ''U.S.A. Comics'' #2] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Captain Wonder (Timely Comics)|Captain Wonder]]
|''Kid Komics'' #1 (Feb. 1943) 
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|[[Otto Binder]] (writer), [[Frank Giacoia]] (penciller)<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/2731/#34209 ''Kid Komics'' #1] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|[[Challenger (comics)|Challenger]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #7 (April 1941)
| ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' #9 (Feb. 2005)
|Charles Nicholas (penciller). Unknown writer.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1362/#19447 ''Daring Mystery Comics'' #7] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|- 
|[[Citizen V]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #8 (Jan. 1942) 
|''Thunderbolts'' −1 (July 1997)
|Ben Thompson (penciler, as "Tom Benson"). Unknown writer.<ref name=gcd-daringmystery8>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1938/ ''Daring Mystery Comics'' #8] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|-
|Comet Pierce
|''[[Red Raven Comics]]'' #1 (Aug. 1940)
|
|Jack Kirby (writer-artist)<ref>{{cite web|last=Bails|first=Jerry|title=Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999: Jack Kirby|url=http://bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=KIRBY%2c+JACK%7C|access-date=April 14, 2013}}</ref>
|- 
|Davey Drew (Davey and the Demon)
|''Mystic Comics'' #7 (December 1941)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #3 (October 2011)
|Howard James
|- 
|Defender
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (August 1941)
|''Daredevil'' #66 (Dec. 2004)
|Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (writers). Penciler uncertain<ref name=gcd-usacomics1>[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=1580 ''USA Comics'' #1] at the Grand Comics Database. RE: Defender, source notes Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as writers, "Pencils: Joe Simon (looming image); Al Avison ?; Al Gabriele ?"</ref>
|-
|[[Destroyer (Timely Comics)|Destroyer]]
|''Mystic Comics'' #6 (Oct. 1941)
|''Invaders'' #26 (March 1978)
|Stan Lee (writer), [[Jack Binder (comics)|Jack Binder]] (penciler)
|-
|[[Dynamic Man (Timely Comics)|Dynamic Man]]
|''Mystic Comics #1'' (March 1940) 
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
| [[Daniel Peters]] 
|-
|[[List of Marvel Comics characters: E|Electro]]
|''Marvel Mystery'' #4 (Feb. 1940)
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
| [[Steve Dahlman]] (writer-penciler)
|- 
|Falcon
|''Human Torch Comics'' #2 (June 1940)
|''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' #9 (Feb. 2005)
| Carl Burgos (writer - artist)
|- 
|[[Father Time (Marvel Comics)|Father Time]]
|''Captain America Comics'' #6 (Sep. 1941)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #2 (Sep. 2011)
| Stan Lee (writer)
|-
|Ferret
|''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #4 (Feb. 1940) 
|''The Marvels Project'' #3 (Dec. 2009)
|
|-
|[[Fiery Mask]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #1 (Jan. 1940)
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|Joe Simon (writer-penciller)<ref name=gcd-daringmystery1>[http://www.comics.org/issue/628/ ''Daring Mystery Comics'' #1] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|- 
|Fighting Yank
|''Captain America Comics'' #17 (Aug. 1942)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #2 (Sep. 2011)
|
|-
|[[Fin (comics)|Fin]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #7 (April 1941)
|''The Avengers'' #97 (March 1972);<ref name=sim /> ''Invaders'' #5 (March 1976)
|[[Bill Everett]] (writer-penciller)<ref name=gcd-daringmystery7 />
|- 
|Flash Foster
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #1 (Jan. 1940)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|
|-
|Flexo the Rubber Man
|''Mystic Comics'' #1 (April 1940)
| ''Free Comic Book Day 2022: Spider-Man/Venom'' (May 2022)
|Jack Binder (penciller). Unknown writer
|-
|[[Human Torch (android)|Human Torch]]
|''Marvel Comics'' #1 (Oct. 1939)
|''[[Fantastic Four]] Annual'' #4 (Nov. 1966)
|[[Al Fagaly]] (penciller), [[Carl Burgos]] (writer-penciller)
|-
|Hurricane<ref name="makkari">In 1998, the Hurricane and Mercury were revealed in [[retcon]] to be the same character, the [[Eternals (comics)|Eternal]] named ''[[Makkari (comics)|Makkari]]''.</ref>
|''Captain America Comics #1'' (March 1941)
|''Marvel Universe'' #7 (Dec. 1998)
|Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (writers), Jack Kirby (penciler)<ref name=gcd-captamerica1 />
|- 
|Invisible Man
|''Mystic Comics'' #2 (Apr. 1940)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|
|- 
|[[Jack Frost (Marvel Comics)|Jack Frost]]
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1941)
|''[[Marvel Premiere]]'' #29 (April 1976)
||Stan Lee (writer), Charles Nicholas (penciler)<ref name=gcd-usacomics1 />
|- 
|Jap Buster Johnson
|''U.S.A Comics'' #6 (Dec. 1942)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #2 (Sept. 2011)
|
|- 
|Jimmy Jupiter
|''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #28 (Feb. 1942)
|''Captain America'' #1 (Sept. 2011)
|
|-
|[[John Steele (comics)|John Steele]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #1
|''The Marvels Project'' #1 (Oct. 2009)
|Larry Antonette (writer and, as "Dean Carr", penciler)<ref name=gcd-daringmystery1 />
|- 
|[[Laughing Mask]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #2
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|Will Harr (writer), Maurice Gutwirth (penciler)<ref name=gcd-daringmystery2>[http://www.comics.org/issue/664/ ''Daring Mystery Comics'' #2] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|- 
|Major Liberty
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1941)
|
|
|-
|[[Marvel Boy#Martin Burns|Marvel Boy]] (first)
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #6 (Sept. 1940)
|
||Jack Kirby (penciller), Joe Simon and Al Avison (inkers)
|-
|[[Marvel Boy#Martin Burns|Marvel Boy]] (second)
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #7 (Feb. 1943)
|''[[Fantastic Four]]'' #165 (Dec. 1975)
||[[Bob Oksner]] (writer-penciller-inker)
|-
|Marvex the Super-Robot
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #3 (April 1940)
|''All Select Comics 70th Anniversary Special'' #1 (Sept. 2009)
|Unknown writer and penciler from the [[Harry "A" Chesler]] studio<ref name=gcd-daringmystery3>[http://www.comics.org/issue/746/ ''Daring Mystery Comics'' #3] at the Grand Comics Database.</ref>
|- 
|[[Master Mind Excello]]
|''Mystic Comics'' #2
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|
|- 
|Mercury<ref name="makkari" />
|''Red Raven Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1940)
|''Marvel Universe'' #7 (Dec. 1998)
|[[Martin A. Bursten]] (writer), Jack Kirby (artist)
|- 
|Merzah the Mystic
|''Mystic Comics'' #4 (Aug. 1940)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|
|- 
|[[Miss America (Madeline Joyce)|Miss America]]
|''[[Marvel Mystery Comics]]'' #49 (Nov. 1943)
|''Giant-Size Avengers'' #1 (Aug. 1974)
|[[Otto Binder]] (writer), Al Gabriele (penciller)
|- 
|[[List of Marvel Comics characters: M#Miss Patriot|Miss Patriot]]
|''Human Torch Comics'' #4 (Spring 1941) (as Mary Morgan); ''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #50 (Dec. 1943) (as Miss Patriot)
|''Captain America: Patriot'' #1 (Nov. 2010)
|
|- 
|[[Mister E (Timely Comics)|Mister E]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #2
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|
|- 
|Monako the Magician
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #1
|''The Marvels Project'' #1 (Oct. 2009)
|
|- 
|Moon Man
|''Mystic Comics'' #5
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #2 (Sep. 2011)
|
|- 
|[[Namora]]
|''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #82 (May 1947)
|''Sub-Mariner'' #33 (January 1971)
|[[Ken Bald]] (writer), [[Syd Shores]] (artist)
|- 
|Nellie the Nurse
|
|
| 
|- 
|[[Jeffrey Mace|Patriot]]
|''Human Torch Comics'' #4 (Spring 1941)
|''The Avengers'' #97 (March 1972);<ref name=sim /> ''[[The Invaders]]'' #5 (March 1976)
|[[Ray Gill]] (writer), [[Bill Everett]] or [[George Mandel]] (penciler)<ref>[http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=1363 ''The Human Torch'' #4] (mis-numbered #3) at the [[Grand Comics Database]], with cover blowup [http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1363&zoom=4 here]. The Patriot debuted this issue with both a two-page text story by writer [[Ray Gill]], with a spot illustration by artist [[Bill Everett]], and a 10-page comics story by writer Gill and artist [[George Mandel]].</ref>
|- 
|[[Patsy Walker]]
|''[[Miss America Magazine]]'' #2 (Nov. 1944)
|''The Avengers'' #144 (Feb. 1976)
|[[Stuart Little (comics)|Stuart Little]] (writer), [[Ruth Atkinson]] (artist)
|- 
|Phantom Bullet
|''Daring Comics'' #2 (Feb. 1940)
|''The Marvels Project'' #2 (Nov. 2009)
|
|- 
|[[Phantom Reporter]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #3
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|
|- 
|[[Red Raven Comics|Red Raven]]
|''Red Raven Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1940)
|''[[Uncanny X-Men|X-Men]]'' #44 (May 1968)
|Joe Simon (writer), [[Louis Cazeneuve]] (penciller)
|- 
|[[Rockman (comics)|Rockman]]
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1941)
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|
|- 
|[[List of Marvel Comics characters: S|Silver Scorpion]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #7 (Jan. 1941)
|''Invaders'' #2 (June 1993)
|Henry Sahle
|- 
|Slow-Motion Jones
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #6 (Dec. 1942)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|- 
|[[Sun Girl (Marvel Comics)|Sun Girl]]
|''Sun Girl'' #1 (Aug. 1948)
|''Ant-Man: Last Days'' #1 (Oct. 2015)
|Ken Bald
|- 
|Taxi Taylor
|''Mystic Comics'' #2 (Apr. 1940)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|Unknown writer and penciler from the [[Harry "A" Chesler]] studio<ref name="gcd-daringmystery3" />
|- 
|Terror
|''Mystic Comics'' #5 (March 1941)
|''Sensational She-Hulk'' #15 (May 1990)
|Phil Sturm (writer); [[Syd Shores]] (penciler).  George Klein may have added background pencils, but that would not be a creator role.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/issue/1315/#18868 ''Mystic Comics #5''] at the Grand Comics Database</ref>
|- 
|[[Thin Man (comics)|Thin Man]]
|''Mystic Comics'' #4 (July 1940)
|''Marvel Premiere'' #29 (April 1976)
|[[Klaus Nordling]] (penciller-inker)
|- 
|[[Thunderer (Marvel Comics)|Thunderer]]
|''Daring Mystery Comics'' #7 (April 1941)
|''Marvel Premiere'' #29 (April 1976)
|
|-
|[[Toro (comics)|Toro]]
|''Human Torch Comics'' #2 (Fall 1940)
|''Sub-Mariner'' #14 (June 1969)
|Carl Burgos
|- 
|Vagabond
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #2 (Nov. 1941)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #3 (Oct. 2011)
|
|-
|[[Venus (Marvel Comics)|Venus]]
|''[[Venus (comic book)|Venus]]'' #1 (Aug. 1948)
|''Sub-Mariner'' #57 (January 1973)
|Ken Bald (first artist)
|- 
|Victory Boys
|''Comedy Comics'' #10 (June 1942)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|
|-
|[[Vision (Timely Comics)|Vision]]
|''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #13 (Nov. 1940)
|''The Avengers'' #97 (March 1972)<ref name=sim />
|Jack Kirby & Joe Simon (writers); Jack Kirby (penciller-inker)<ref>Theakston, Greg, at [http://comics.org/details.lasso?id=1102#4 ''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #13] in the Grand Comics Database</ref>
|- 
|[[Whizzer (Robert Frank)|Whizzer]]
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1941)
|''Giant-Size Avengers'' #1 (Aug. 1974)
|Al Avison (penciller), Al Gabriele (inker). Writer unknown.
|- 
|[[Witness (comics)|The Witness]]
|''Mystic Comics'' #6 (Dec. 1941)
|''The Twelve'' #1 (March 2008)
|Stan Lee (writer)<ref name="lee">[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lee_s.htm Stan Lee] at the [[Lambiek Comiclopedia]]</ref>
|-
|[[Young Allies (Marvel Comics)|Young Allies]]
|''Young Allies Comics'' #1 (July 1941)
|''Young Allies Comics 70th Anniversary Special'' (August 2009)
|Jack Kirby (penciller), [[Syd Shores]] (inker)
|- 
|''Young Avenger''
|''U.S.A. Comics'' #1 (Aug. 1941)
|''All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes'' #1 (Aug. 2011)
|
|- 
|}

==See Also==
==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=n}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''All in Color for a Dime'' by [[Richard A. Lupoff|Dick Lupoff]] & [[Don Thompson (Comics Buyer's Guide)|Don Thompson]] {{ISBN|0-87341-498-5}}
* ''The Comic Book Makers'' by [[Joe Simon]] with Jim Simon {{ISBN|1-887591-35-4}}
* ''Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee'' by Stan Lee and George Mair {{ISBN|0-684-87305-2}}
* ''Masters of Imagination: The Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame'' by Mike Benton {{ISBN|0-87833-859-4}}
* ''The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide'' by Robert Overstreet — Edition #35 {{ISBN|0-375-72107-X}}
* ''[[Origins of Marvel Comics]]'' by Stan Lee {{ISBN|0-7851-0579-4}}
* ''The Steranko History of Comics'', Vol. 1 & 2, by [[Jim Steranko|James Steranko]] – Vol. 1 {{ISBN|0-517-50188-0}}
* [[Roy Thomas|Thomas, Roy]], ''The Golden Age of Marvel Comics'' (Marvel, 1997; {{ISBN|0-7851-0564-6}}) Introduction, p.&nbsp;3

==External links==
* [http://www.comics.org/indicia_publisher/name/timely/sort/alpha/ Timely] at [[Grand Comics Database]]
* [[Jess Nevins|Nevins, Jess]]. [http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/gaguide.html A Guide to Golden Age Marvel Characters]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100220010800/http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/gaguide.html WebCitation archive].
* {{cite news |last=Vassallo |first=Michael J. |url=http://www.comicartville.com/bellman.htm |title=A Timely Talk with Allen Bellman |publisher=Comicartville.com |year=2005 |page=[http://www.comicartville.com/bellmanpg2.htm 2] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117061024/http://www.comicartville.com/bellmanpg2.htm |archive-date=January 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

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