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Millie Collins, better known as Millie the Model, is likely Marvel's most famous character outside its superhero universe Created by writer-artist Ruth Atkinson, Millie the Model Comics debuted with a Winter 1945 cover-dated issue and ran for an impressive 207 issues until its final release in December 1973.  Atkinson wrote and drew several of the[...]

Millie Collins, better known as Millie the Model, was the creation of writer-artist Ruth Atkinson, who wrote and drew most of the stories in Millie the Model Comics #1.  Atkinson had previously co-created Patsy Walker at Marvel, and also did significant work for Fiction House.  Atkinson portrayed Millie's story as the drama of a career-oriented[...]

Millie Collins, better known as Millie the Model, is likely Marvel's most famous character outside its superhero universe Created by writer-artist Ruth Atkinson, Millie the Model Comics debuted with a Winter 1945 cover-dated issue and ran for an impressive 207 issues until its final release in December 1973.  Atkinson wrote and drew several of the[...]

Issues of New Fun Comics among other very early releases will probably be mentioned. Marvel's My Friend Irma and Hedy De Vine by Dan DeCarlo. But when I started asking collectors about vintage Marvel comic book rarity, the reaction was very different.  One collector responded with an anecdote.  When this collector asked a high net-worth Golden Age[...]

The Blonde Phantom was one of Marvel's most popular female superheroes of the Golden Age.  The character debuted in All Select Comics #11, cover-dated Fall 1946, and that series was retitled Blonde Phantom Comics beginning with the next issue.  She made around 40 appearances across seven titles between late 1946 and early 1949, and had[...]

Legendary comic book artist Dan DeCarlo is best remembered for a style that came to define the look of Archie Comics by the end of the 1950s, but he made significant and earlier contributions at Marvel as well.  The artist's sweet, funny, and polished style of drawing beautiful women in humorous situations for Marvel titles[...]

But Brian Bendis and Rob Liefeld's exchange, after Bendis had reached out to both Kevin Maguire and JH Williams III after they left DC Comics… @robertliefeld you and me, millie the model!! lets go!! :) — BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (@BRIANMBENDIS) September 7, 2013 Inspired Rob to create this little number today… That's what happens when you post on Twitter[...]