Talk:Martin Goodman (publisher)

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Birth year

A previous writer gave publisher Martin Goodman's birth date as January 18, 1908, but did not cite a source for this. I could find no independent confirmation. Two sources, which I've footnoted (the Les Daniels authorized book, and the index for the Michigan State U. comics collection), each gives 1910. Goodman is probably listed in Who's Who in America, if anyone has access to that as a source, to help solve this discrepancy. -- 24.215.162.25 04:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Goodman pulps

Huh, a list I posted (as Brand Echh, http://www.comicboards.com/invaders/view.php?trd=041126211131) on a message board appears as an external link. I know the message board doesn't have a perminent archive. Guess that's the list that was posted here by someone else. At any rate, I'd like to see entries for at least some of these pulp books, what do you guys think? In particular, "The Angel Detective" (first and only appearance of a crime nior hero very similar to Timely's Angel), the entire "Marvel Science Stories" line (including Marvel Science Stories, Marvel Tales, Marvel Stories and Marvel Science Fiction) and "Ka-zar the Great" (the predecessor of Marvel's Ka-Zar). Marvel Science issues in the 1950s included some early works by L. Ron Hubbard. - Kevingarcia 08:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Timely changed to Atlas when?

While revising a convoluted passage, I wound up adding this weasel:

    "During the 1950s, the company formerly known as 
    Timely was called Atlas Comics"

...obviously it would be better to state when exactly the name change occured. Anybody know? AC 17:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, officially there was no name change. During the 1930s and 40s Goodman published comics under "Timely" and "Marvel," and no doubt a few other names. These distinctions were hardly legally binding as they were just names put in the corner of books (most books from that period had no company logo at all). Likewise, "Atlas" was hardly the uniform for all comics published by Goodman in the 1950s. It wasn't until after the Fantastic Four appeared that the phrase "Marvel Comics" became the standard by which all of Goodman's comics were known. Readers, collectors and fans of all types find it easier to just refer to Goodman's comics, 1938 to circa 1950, as "Timely Comics" and all of his horror, crime, science fiction, romance, western and brief super-hero comics of 1950-1961 as "Atlas Comics." There are no official dates, unfortunately. - Kevingarcia 07:29, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]