„… . Timely ComicsChapter 3Mr. Timely Comics20 Chapter 3Many episodes in Lieber’s early life are still …” „… inch. The Timely Comics head writer and editorial director put out his hand, welcoming his young …” „… Timely Comics employee—artist and writer Jack Kirby. Some days Lieber refilled Kirby and Simon’s inkwells …”

„… basis.Stan’s return to Timely would be in the midst of a new age for comics and the country. The nation seemed …” „… . Goodman gambled, and his bet turned sour.Timely was renamed Atlas Comics in the early 1950s, just as the …” „… he worked in comics.Vince Fago’s small team had turned out countless comic books during the war …”

„… , but his primary task was to keep Timely’s most popular comics go-ing, particularly Captain America …” „… understood that no one wanted to be viewed as unpatriotic.Captain America remained Timely’s most popular …” „… romance.2Comics were exactly what readers wanted—an inexpensive diversion from the daily intensity of …”

„… ; selling Marvel, 118–20; success during World War II, 34–35, 38. See also Marvel; Timely ComicsGoodwin …” „… , 101Thor, 4, 6; and Vietnam, 121; origins, 90–91. See also The AvengersTimely Comics, 19, 39, 44 …” „… ComicsDowney, Robert Jr., 1, 178Doyle, Arthur Conan, 91Dylan, Bob, 3, 87, 181Eisenhower, Dwight, 92The Electric …”

„… DeLonge xi 1 How the Marvel Universe Conquered the Globe 1 2 Origin Story 8 3 Mr. Timely Comics 19 4 …” „… .” —Forces of Geek“Stan Lee is a well-researched, lucid addition to superhero comics history and comics …” „… biography more generally.”—Choice“This timely biography traces his extraordinary story. . . . Batchelor …”

„… critics want to blast him for the color-by-number nature of the pre–Fantastic Four comics Timely …” „… the banal topics, plots, and characters that filled comics.Still a couple years removed from forty …” „… program.Julius “Julie” Schwartz, the editorial director of DC Comics (Goodman’s chief competitor), realized The …”

„… Comics—History (Draft of “History of Marvel Comics”), 1990, Box 5, Folder 7, Stan Lee Papers.23. Quoted in …” „… . 7. Stan Lee, interview by Mark Lacter, “Stan Lee Marvel Comics Always Search-ing for a New Story …” „… Bell and Michael J. Vassallo, The Secret History of Marvel Comics: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting …”

„… Joe Simon, head writer and editorial director at Timely Comics, rose from his seat, towering over a …” „… a touch of mythmaking.21C H A P T E R 3MR. TIMELY COMICS22 CHAPTER 3There are several versions of …” „… his Timely Comics origin story. One be-gins with Celia telling Stanley about a job opening at a …”

„… he received when people found he worked in comics.The popularity of Archie and friends in Archie …” „… jurisdictions attempted to ban comics.The self-appointed culture police did not specifically target Goodman or …” „… humor, funny animals, and teen romance. Captain America remained Timely’s most popular series.2“How …”

„… the business side of Timely Comics, like ensuring that the publisher qualified for the less expensive …” „… when we went bowling or played billiards. I thought he was a cute kid.” —Joe Simon, Timely Comics …” „… editor and cocreator of Captain America (Joe Simon, My Life in Comics)A HERO IS BORN! 5two-pager, maybe …”

„… give way to romance titles, which would then ride a wave until monster comics became popular, and then …” „… belittling beliefs: “He felt comics were really only read by very, very young children or stupid adults …” „… he pushed Timely in that direction. Yet The Fantastic Four subtly shifted the rapport between editor …”

„… , 3),” Marvel Comics—History (Draft of “History of Marvel Comics”), 1990, Box 5, Folder 7, Stan Lee …” „… Comics Always Searching for a New Story,” Inc., November 2009, 96. 5. Stan Lee and George Mair, Excelsior …” „… , 2012).16. Stan Lee, “History of Marvel (Chapters 1, 2, 3),” Unpublished, Marvel Comics— History (Draft of …”

„… day!Foreword by Tom DeLonge ix01 A Hero Is Born! 102 Origin Story 1103 Mr. Timely Comics 2104 Through War and …”

„… all three with his friend Joe Simon when they created Captain America for Timely Comics. Their hero …” „… Captain America Comics #1, art by Jack Kirby, Timely Comics, 1941. Cap-tain America punched his way …” „… at Timely Comics. There were female heroes too, like Black Widow, Mary Marvel, and Phantom Lady …”

„… : in comics, 28–29, 59, 120, 128; in film, 158Tilley, Carol, 15Timely Comics. See Marvel ComicsTodd …” „… superheroes, 145–47Asselin, Janelle, 169, 176Atlas Comics. See Marvel Comicsthe Atom, 21, 23, 117–18the …” „… Allie, Scott, 165, 169Alonso, Axel, 128–29, 139Alterna Comics, 183Altman, Teddy. See HulklingAmanat …”

„… 45CHAPTER 5DivergenceIn the early 1940s, superhero comics were ubiquitous in schoolyards across …” „… publishers estimated that each issue was read by approximately five different children. Comics were traded …” „… short, superhero comics were everywhere and everybody read them.Then the superhero boom collapsed and …”

„… twenty- five years as a publisher. He started Timely Comics after Superman and Batman became instant hits …” „… 23CHAPTER 3MarvelousIn 1960, DC Comics decided to capitalize on the success of their superhero …” „… bubble collapsed. He chased trends from then on, changing the company name to Atlas Comics as he tried to …”

„… . The new generation of fans wanted their comics in a 58 CHAPTER 6timely manner, and saw comics as …” „… Comics.New Teen Titans was DC’s answer to Uncanny X- Men, an ongoing soap operatic series with young adults …” „… 57CHAPTER 6OverpoweredWith both DC Comics and Marvel largely ignoring women’s lib and female …”

„… addressing real-worldissues such as prejudice and discrimination. The concept was timely: the X-Men comics …” „… (Sanderson 2013; Trushell 2004). Historical events thatwere referenced in the comics—and then in the …” „… X-MenMasterworks, vol. 1. New York: Marvel Comics.Comicbook, Joe. 2013. “Stan Lee Created X-Men as Anti-bigotry …”

„… world where mutants have strange, wonderful,and terrible powers, and where—unlike the comics—there are …” „… Reborn). NewYork: Marvel Comics.Coates, Ta-Nehisi. 2011. “You Left Out the Part About . . . ” New York …” „… marginalizedexistence in modern-day America. The films take the lessons from the com-ics and then position them in a …”

„… interpretations and meanings. The chapters included in thisvolume provide timely insights from a variety of …” „… X-Factor comics. Multiple comic book titles from across the Marvelmultiverse are constantly in production …”

„… , 139–40, 142theory of difference, 123. See also feminismThirteen O’Clock, 53Timely Comics, 22Timmons, Anne …” „… Journal, 147Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics, 11ComicSpace, 200comix. See underground …” „… comicsComiXology, 200complementary narrative, 41–42, 43, 44, 69, 81, 82, 115, 182The Complete Maus, 198. See also …”

„… of feminism.A year before Lulu made her transition from newspapers to comic books, Timely Comics …” „… of comic strips took off, and in 1935 New Fun Comics—the first comic book that contained all new …” „… _Danziger.indb 5 10/25/12 1:06 PMCHAPTER ONE6increase in violence in comics—reading materials that many …”

„… . Robbins comments that it is indeed graphic novels that are drawing girls into the field of comics:Comics …” „… expand-ing their female readership.New Heroes: The Maturation of the Female Role in ComicsIt is obvious that …” „… member of the ComicSpace family, which hosts webcomics and supports a social network of comics creators …”