Timely Comics was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman and became Marvel Comics. Stan Lee and artists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko helped create many popular characters using the "Marvel method" of collaboration, including the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and the X-Men. However, Jack Kirby is also recognized for his significant artistic contributions in bringing many of these early characters to life. The first Marvel comic featured early predecessors to popular characters like the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner.

2. TIMELY COMICS, the precursor
to Marvel Comics, was founded in 1939 by
pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman. In
order to capitalize on the growing popularity
of comic books, especially those starring
superheroes, Goodman created Timely,
which, after one other name change,
became Marvel Comics in the early 1960s.
TIMELY COMICS LOGO

3. ETYMOLOGY
The title of Timely Comics’ first comic book,
in 1939, was Marvel Comics no. 1. The
company continued to release comics
under the Marvel name through the 1940s
and ’50s. Timely changed its name to Atlas
Comics in 1951 and became Marvel
Comics in the early 1960s, recalling the title
it had often used.

6. THE MAN BEHIND
MARVEL
Stan Lee, original name Stanley Martin
Lieber, (born December 28, 1922, New
York, New York, U.S.—died November 12,
2018, Los Angeles, California),
American comic book writer best known for
his work with Marvel Comics. Among the
hundreds of characters and teams that he
helped to create were the Fantastic
Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the X-
Men.

7. EARLY
CONTRIBUTION IN
COMICS
In 1961 Lee and artist Jack
Kirby created The Fantastic Four, about
four astronauts who gain superpowers
after a cosmic incident. The series made
him and Atlas—now known as Marvel—
major forces in the comics world. One year
later Lee and artist Steve Ditko
created Spider-Man. Lee, Kirby, and Ditko
adopted a collaborative workflow that
came to be known as “the Marvel method.”

8. SOMEONE: Stanlee Is Only Person Who
Created Marvel Comics
AND HE IS …
ME:

10. THE HIDDEN
MAN
Jack Kirby, original name Jacob Kurtzberg,
(born August 28, 1917, New York, New
York, U.S.—died February 6,
1994, Thousand Oaks, California),
American comic book artist who helped
create hundreds of original characters,
including Captain America, the Incredible
Hulk, and the Fantastic Four.

11. CONTRIBUTIO
N
Using the “Marvel method” , which stressed
collaboration between writer and artist, Lee
and Kirby turned that premise into The
Fantastic Four. Kirby’s artistic skills gave
the book a visual punch, and, with his
experience with romance comics and Lee’s
knack for dialogue, they captured the soap-
opera feel of life in a super powered family.

12. THE FIRST
ORIGINAL HEROS
•HUMAN TORCH
•NAMOR
•ANGEL
•KA-ZAR
•MASKED RAIDER

13. HUMAN TORCH
ORIGIN
The original human torch began his
existence in 1939 in the laboratory of
professor phineas t. Horton, one of the
pioneers in the field of artificial
intelligence and robotics. The culmination
of horton's research was an android who
mimicked virtually all of the functions of a
human being, including independent
thought, but was composed entirely of
synthetic materials.

14. NAMOR
In 1915, Ernest Shackleton, sent by Winston
Churchill, sought out vibranium in the Antarctic. His
ship, the Endurance, was lost. Later, Leonard
McKenzie, with the telepath Paul Destine as a
passenger, attempted to recover the
vibranium. Princess Fen was sent to investigate
explosions near the surface by her father, Emperor
Thakorr. McKenzie met, fell in love with, and
impregnated Princess Fen with the child who
became Namor. However, Atlantean soldiers came
to retrieve Fen and attacked McKenzie's crew.

15. ANGEL
Though Warren Worthington III's bigoted
parents claimed to love their son they could
not cope with his visible mutation (a huge pair
of wings) and had him raised by servants on a
secluded private estate. They considered risky
surgery, but when Warren's father heard of the
Xavier Institute, he hastily unloaded his
problem son, paying Charles Xavier to
become Warren's legal guardian. Warren's
arrival at the Institute caused a stir.

16. KA-ZAR
Kevin Plunder's father led an exhibition to
Antarctica for a rare element, which they found
the jungles of the Savage Land where this
"Anti-Metal," later known as Vibranium, was
found. Lord Plunder was killed, however, by
natives of the Man-Ape tribe, although Kevin
was saved by the sudden appearance of
Zabu. Zabu took Kevin with him into the Land
of Mists, and the Man-Apes called him Ka-Zar,
which means "Son of the Tiger”

17. MASKED RAIDER
Jim Gardley was a cattle rancher who lived in the
town of Cactusville, California. In 1849, Gardley was
being pressured into selling his land to wealthy
rancher Cal Brunder. Seeing Jim's opposition as
creating distention among other ranch owners,
Brunder accused Gardley of cattle rustling. Jim was
arrested by the easily bullied sheriff, but he soon
broke out of jail and escaped into the desert. After
raiding his own home, Jim spent next few weeks in
the wilderness teaching himself how to shoot until he
became an excellent marksman.

18. THE
FIRST
MARVEL
COMIC

19. Marvel Comics (1939) #1
Published: August 31, 1939
Writer: Bill Everett, Paul Gustavson, Ben
Thompson, Carl Burgos
Penciler: Ben Thompson, Carl Burgos, Al
Anders, Bill Everett
The one that started it all, featuring the first
appearances of both the the android Human Torch
and the Sub-Mariner!

21. MARVEL
CINEMATIC
UNIVERSE
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a media
franchise created by Marvel Studios, set
primarily in a shared universe designated as
the reality Earth-199999 within Marvel's
multiverse system, with some installments also
set in adjacents or branching realities.
Starting with Iron Man, the franchise is
comprised mainly of films independently made
by Marvel Studios, that are primarily set within
this same universe, much like Marvel has done
with their comics.

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