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Legendary creator Bill Everett contributed nearly 100 covers to the Marvel/Atlas Pre-Code era, most of them highly sought-after by collectors today, and his cover for Venus #19 is considered the best of the bunch, and one of the best Pre-Code Horror covers ever created.  The story behind the cover, also written and drawn by Everett,[...]

The title's 19 issue run from 1948 to 1952 and spans a time of major change in the American Comic book industry.  Superheroes were on the decline, and other genres such as romance, horror, and science fiction were on the rise on America's newsstands.  Venus started as a sort of light-hearted superhero/romance hybrid, with the[...]

A foundational creator of the Golden Age, Bill Everett is best known for his creation of Namor the Sub-Mariner in that era and his co-creation of Daredevil in the Silver Age.  But Everett excelled at an astonishing range of material, and his work between those two ages for Marvel/Atlas during the Pre-Code era on science[...]

Tarpé Mills Purple Zombie (Heroic Comics #1-12, 1940-1941) and Joe Simon's Zombie Master (Daring Mystery Comics #1, 1940) are some notable early Golden Age entries, and there are numerous others.  But while zombies appeared in comic books a handful of times per year throughout much of the early Golden Age, during the height of the[...]

According to a letter that surfaced on eBay in 2009, Bill Everett's mom Grace Everett is likely the co-creator of Centaur superhero Amazing Man.  In a letter dated March 1, 1939, she wrote, "Bill has a lot of work to do on his present three comic strips, and Centaur Publications wants him to do a[...]

Legendary comic book artist-writer Carl Burgos appears to have been interested in androids.  Most famous for his creation of the original Human Torch beginning in Marvel Comics #1, Burgos was also the creator of the Iron Skull (perhaps technically a cyborg) for Centaur's Amazing Man Comics #5, and White Streak for Novelty Publications' Target Comics[...]

Target Comics is best remembered for a run of great covers from issues #2-7, which featured Bill Everett's take on the Carl Burgos character White Streak and Bill Wolverton's Spacehawk.  But much of the rest of this 105 issue series is underappreciated, particularly for the long-running superhero character The Target The Target announced his warning[...]

The emphasis is on story and character values."  While Air Fighters Comics, which introduced Airboy in its second issue, is certainly not a superhero comic book, Victory Comics is another matter entirely.  That series features a character called the Conqueror, very decidedly a superhero, created by the legendary Bill Everett of Sub-Mariner fame.  An overlooked[...]

The Marvel/Atlas war comic era started with War Comics #1, which hit newsstands in early September 1950, a little over a month after the United States entered the Korean War.  That war would soon help inspire a wave of war comic books from countless publishers in the early 1950s, but war comics would be a[...]

A foundational creator of the Golden Age, Bill Everett is best known for his creation of Namor the Sub-Mariner in that era and his co-creation of Daredevil in the Silver Age.  But Everett excelled at an astonishing range of material, and his work between those two ages for Marvel/Atlas during the Pre-Code era on science[...]

Compton (presumably).  Something of a rarity in the Golden Age, one eyebrow-raising letter in this issue had a reader taking issue with the focus on what he termed as "England's War" and preferred that Victory Comics hero The Conqueror take on Stalin in Russia.  While this issue hit the newsstands several weeks before the US's[...]

The debut issue of Heroic Comics is significant for several reasons, but first and foremost, it features the first appearance of Hydroman, created by comic book legend and Sub-Mariner creator Bill Everett Heroic Comics #1 also features the debut of the Purple Zombie, a wonderfully weird creation of Black Fury creator Tarpé Mills The series[...]

The emphasis is on story and character values."  While Air Fighters Comics, which introduced Airboy in its second issue, is certainly not a superhero comic book, Victory Comics is another matter entirely.  That series features a character called the Conqueror, very decidedly a superhero, created by Compton and the legendary Bill Everett of Sub-Mariner fame. [...]

Jason Aaron, Bob Almond, Ken Bald, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Rich Buckler, John Buscema, Stefano Caselli, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Olivier Coipel, Gene Colan, Will Conrad, Mike Deodato, Scot Eaton, Steve Epting, Bill Everett, Matt Fraction, Billy Graham, Jonathan Hickman, Reginald Hudlin, Ken Lashley, Jonathan Maberry, Kenny Martinez, Don McGregor, Jimmy Palmiotti, Christopher Priest, Joe Quesada,[...]

The debut issue of Heroic Comics is significant for several reasons, but first and foremost, it features the first appearance of Hydroman, created by comic book legend and Sub-Mariner creator Bill Everett Heroic Comics #1 also features the debut of the Purple Zombie, a wonderfully weird creation of Black Fury creator Tarpé Mills The series[...]

The emphasis is on story and character values."  While Air Fighters Comics, which introduced Airboy in its second issue, is certainly not a superhero comic book, Victory Comics is another matter entirely.  That series features a character called the Conqueror, very decidedly a superhero, created by the legendary Bill Everett of Sub-Mariner fame.  An overlooked[...]

The Marvel Comics #1 Pay Copy, one of the most famous individual comic books in vintage collecting circles, has just sold for a record $2,427,777.65 at ComicConnect.  That is by a significant margin the highest price ever paid for this 1939 release, which is the first comic book published by Marvel.  This particular copy of[...]

By late 1963, it was certainly clear that the Marvel Universe as we know it today was gaining traction.  The Fantastic Four, X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Avengers had their own titles, and the likes of Thor, Iron Man, and Ant-Man/Giant-Man and the Wasp had regular features in other titles.  Captain America had returned.  The line[...]

Comic book characters often get their starts in unusual places.  For example, the Sub-Mariner first appeared in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 before becoming one of the cornerstones of Golden Age Marvel.  Spider-Man debuted in the weird science/supernatural anthology Amazing Fantasy before getting his own series.  But Bill Everett's Zombie also had a highly unusual[...]

The title's 19 issue run from 1948 to 1952 spans a time of major change in the American Comic book industry.  Superheroes were on the decline, and other genres such as romance, horror and science fiction were on the rise on America's newsstands.  Venus started as a sort of light-hearted superhero/romance hybrid, with the character[...]

The April 1964 cover-dated debut issue by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, with a cover penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Everett.  The debut issue of the series features the first appearance and origin of the character who has gone onto popularity in comics and beyond. Notably, ComicConnect has also just sold another copy of[...]

And one such is this Daredevil #1 original artwork page by Daredevil co-creator Bill Everett for Daredevil #1 from 1964, written by Stan Lee. At the time of writing, it has received bids of over $58,000 and still has days to go – it's up at 12:00 PM Central Time, Thursday, April 1, 2021. First Story Page[...]

This cover by Bill Everett is one of my favorites Now Venus was originally not a horror comic Initially, it centered around the titular Venus — before shifting to a science fiction tone Then, it boasted a romantic angle, until finally settling on a horror vibe before being canceled after issue #19 It should also[...]

When I have a little more time to research this than I have this week, I'm likely to find that the Arnold family and Bill Everett's (of Submariner fame, and much more) family are related The Everett family has a long and distinguished history in Massachusetts Bill Everett's great-grandfather Edward Everett gave the speech at[...]

It includes creators such as Bill Everett, Ross Andru, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, George Tuska, and much more More details below. CRYPT OF HORROR #36 Much of the best artwork on the great Pre-Code horror comics of the 1950's was produced by art stars who shone in other genres (superheroes, Westerns, War, even love and humor)[...]

So we have rumours of a Namor The Sub Mariner movie planned, wither at Universal of Marvel depending who is talking. But here is a very interesting point to touch about a supposed Namor movie. He is one of the rare Marvel characters that has an actual, 100% solid rights-reversion case. Here's how it goes. The first appearance of[...]