The story that Everett, Burgos, Compton, and perhaps others crafted for Marvel Mystery Comics #9 was cleverly built up from the groundwork laid by the prior eight issues of the series. The seeds of ...

Marvel Comics #1 hit newsstands in October 1939. And it was the first comic book published by Timely Comics, the publisher that exists today as Marvel Entertainment. Timely quickly changed the title ...

In 1939, Marvel Comics #1 featured some of the greatest pulp heroes of the Golden Age: The fiery Human Torch. The avenging Angel. The seafaring Namor the Sub-Mariner. The aquatic anti-hero and the ...

Namor, the Sub-Mariner and Marvel’s Monarch of the Oceans, has long defended the kingdom of Atlantis from external and internal menace, often warring with the surface world and facing down domestic ...

Sometimes hero, sometimes anti-hero, and occasionally outright villain, Namor the Sub-Mariner isn’t just one of Marvel’s most complicated characters. He’s also their first superhero. Created in 1939, ...