Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics # 1 ( cover dated Oct. 1939 ), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos ' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first generally available appearance of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features.

Between early 1939 and late 1941, DC and sister company All-American Publications introduced such popular superheroes as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, the Atom, Hawkman, and Aquaman, while Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles that featured the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America.

* Timely Comics ' Marvel Mystery Comics with the Human torch (# 92, June 1949 ), Sub-Mariner Comics (# 32, June 1949 ), and Captain America Comics ( then Captain America's Weird Tales ) at issue # 75 ( February 1950 ); and a transformation to the Atlas Comics logo on comics cover-dated November 1951.

* Namor the Sub-Mariner # 60 – 62 ( Marvel Comics, January 1995 – March 1995 )

Iron Man and Sub-Mariner is a one-shot comic book published by Marvel Comics in 1968.

The stories were: an 11-page Iron Man tale, " The Torrent Without, The Tumult Within ", credited to Stan Lee and Archie Goodwin as writers, with art by penciler Gene Colan and inker Johnny Craig, a former EC Comics mainstay ; and an 11-page Sub-Mariner story, " Call Him Destiny, or Call Him Death ", credited to Lee and Roy Thomas as writers, with art by Colan and inker Frank Giacoia.

* Official True Crime Cases # 23 spin-off from Sub-Mariner Comics-Marvel Comics

* Amazing Mysteries # 32 spin-off from Sub-Mariner Comics-Marvel Comics

* Best Love # 33 spin-off from Sub-Mariner Comics Marvel Comics

* The Sub-Mariner in Marvel Comics # 1 ( October ) created by Bill Everett, published by Timely Comics

He graduated to drawing for early Timely / Marvel Comics titles, including the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.

He drew DC Comics ' war comics and mystery tales, and for Marvel Comics he did mystery-horror stories plus work on 2 issues of Super-Villain Team-Up featuring Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner.

Lee first rose to prominence in the industry for his work on Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner, Inhumans ( for which he won an Eisner Award ), and The Sentry, as well as his creator-owned character Hellshock at Image Comics.

While this title lasted only three issues, she regularly appeared with Namor in Marvel Mystery Comics and Sub-Mariner ( and in the latter until the series ended in the mid-fifties ).

* Namor the Sub-Mariner, a comic-book character in the Marvel Comics Universe

The character returned that year in Sub-Mariner # 29 where he alongside Charybdis and Scylla were summoned by Huntsman.

1 # 101 ( March 1968 ), and he fully appeared in the one-shot Iron Man and Sub-Mariner # 1 ( April 1968 ).

The character subsequently appeared in Sub-Mariner # 1 ( May 1968 ), and # 6-7 ( October-November 1968 ).

* Part 6: Namor the Sub-Mariner # 47 ( February 1994 )

* Part 9: Namor the Sub-Mariner # 48 ( March 1994 )

In addition, Namor the Sub-Mariner # 46, Quasar # 31-53, and Quasar # 57-60 were unnumbered tie-ins to the crossover.

* Sub-Mariner: The Depths # 1-5 ( with Esad Ribic, 2008-2009 ) collected as hc, 120 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-3329-1 ; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3337-2

* Sub-Mariner # 25-36 ( 1970 – 71 )

( Sub-Mariner ) # 41 ( 1983 )

The Sub-Mariner story continues from Tales to Astonish # 101 ( March 1968 ), and continues in Sub-Mariner # 1 ( May 1968 ).

Iron Man & Sub-Mariner # 1 has been reprinted in two Essential Marvel collections, Iron Man vol.

A Golden Age version of the Red Guardian appeared first in Namor, The Sub-Mariner Annual # 1.

** first appeared in Sub-Mariner # 27

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

* Marschall, Rick, Nemo, the Classic Comics Library # 18, pp. 3 – 32 ( April 1986 )

His lengthiest interview was featured as the cover story in The Comics Journal # 127 in the late 1980s.

One notable example occurred in 2000, when DC Comics refused to allow permission for the reprinting of four panels ( from Batman # 79, 92, 105 and 139 ) to illustrate Christopher York's paper All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s.

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

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In 1974, Marvel Comics writer Rich Buckler introduced the cyborg Deathlok the Demolisher, and a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, in Astonishing Tales # 25.

A facsimile of one of the racy magazines he did cartoons for in this period, Coo Coo # 1, was published by Hamilton Comics in 1997.

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

These skillfully rendered paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks (" A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By ", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 108 by Barks ).

Appearing regularly in stories published by DC Comics, he debuted in Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) and serves as the civilian and secret identity of the superhero Superman.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

2 ) # 53, when following his revelation to Lois of his role as Superman ( Action Comics # 662 ), he states: " I'm Clark, the man you love.

Steve Rogers ' physical transformation, from a reprint of Captain America Comics # 1 ( May 1941 ).

The first instance of Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss occurs in Stan Lee's first comics writing, the two-page text story " Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge " in Captain America Comics # 3 ( May 1941 ).

The contents of Captain America Comics # 1-10 were previously published as Captain America: The Classic Years two hardcover slipcase set in 1990.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue # 503 in 1983, becoming one of the longest-running comic book series.