Martin Goodman Archives

As we've mentioned before, someone at Marvel — Stan Lee or Al Sulman, perhaps? — was a big fan of actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr.  Of course, Marvel was not the only comic book publisher with comics influenced by the star of Algiers, Lady of the Tropics, Samson and Delilah, and numerous other films.  The screen legend[...]

iZombie Season 4, Episode 3 watched a lot like The Bridge — the FX series that centered around two police officers on opposite sides of the Mexican boarder trying to capture a serial killer operating out of both countries.

Then it was known as Marvel Comics. In 2010, the grandson of Martin Goodman, Jason Goodman announced a partnership with his company Nemesis Group Inc and comic publisher Ardden Entertainment to relaunch his father's Atlas Comics brand starting with two #0 issues featuring the Grim Ghost and Phoenix. With another character, Wulf the Barbarian, they were the stars of[...]

Marvel has registered the trademark Timely Comics for "Comic books; printed periodicals in the field of comic book stories and artwork, education,

Marvel's founder Martin Goodman revived the name in 1974 after selling Marvel The line soon folded. And then in 2002, small press publisher Jeffrey Stevens registered the trademark and had it accepted In 2010, Marvel tried to get it back and failed In 2012, Martin's grandson Jason Goodman also tried and failed. Then, along came Nicky Barrucci,[...]

They still printed them though.Of course, Martin Goodman sold Marvel that autumn Who knows what was really going on or where those rumors came from? This is from The Marvel Tribune #7, a  comics fanzine published June/July 1968. That was the year that Iron Man, Nick Fury, Sub Mariner, Silver Surfer, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange,[...]

Vassallo, that — not only gives us a completely new look at something that many of us "old timers" always knew, but actually presents us with an alternate theory of why Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko left their long-time associations with Marvel. According to the authors, these two giants of the industry and pillars of Marvel itself probably left the[...]