Timely / Red Circle / Marvel Titles 1939-1950
1939
September 1939
- Marvel Comics #1, October 1939 [published 31 Aug 1939]
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Cover:
- Cover title: none - cover artist: Frank R. Paul
- “Now I'll Tell One” - (joke page) - inside front cover
- Script & Art: Fred Schwab
- Human Torch: Untitled - 16pp
- Script & Art: Carl Burgos
- Angel: Untitled - 8pp
- Script: Ray Gill. Art: Paul Gustavson
- Sub-Mariner: Untitled - 12pp
- Script & Art: Bill Everett
- Masked Raider: Untitled - 8pp
- Art: Al Anders
- “Jungle Terror” (non-series) - 6pp
- Art: Art Pinajian [as Tomm Dixon]
- “Burning Rubber” - 2pp
- Text Story by Ray Gill, illustrated by Sam Gilman
- Ka-Zar: Untitled - 12pp
- Art: Ben Thompson
September 1939 – Germany invades Poland
October 1939
- Marvel Mystery Comics #2, December 1939 [published 13 Oct 1939]
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Cover:
- Cover title: none - cover artist: Charles J. Mazoujian
- Human Torch: Untitled - 16pp
- Story & Art: Carl Burgos
- Angel: Untitled - 8pp
- Script: Ray Gill, Art: Paul Gustavson
- Sub-Mariner: Untitled - 12pp
- Story & Art: Bill Everett
- Masked Raider: Untitled - 8pp
- Art: Al Anders
- American Ace: Untitled - 6pp
- Art: Paul J. Lauretta
- Angel:“Death-Bird Squadron” - 2pp
- Text Story by David C. Cooke, illustrated by Charles J. Mazoujian
- Ka-Zar: Untitled - 12pp
- Art: Ben Thompson
- “All-In-Fun” - (joke page) - inside back cover
- Art: Fred Schwab [as Ed Wood]
- “Loony Laffs!” - (joke page) - outside back cover
- Art: Ben Thompson
November 1939
- Marvel Mystery Comics #3, January 1940 [published 17 Nov 39]
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Cover:
- Cover title: none - cover artist: Alex Schomburg
- Human Torch: Untitled - 16pp
- Story & Art: Carl Burgos
- Angel: Untitled - 8pp
- Script: Ray Gill, Art: Paul Gustavson
- Sub-Mariner: Untitled - 12pp
- Story & Art: Bill Everett
- Masked Raider: Untitled - 8pp
- Art: Al Anders
- American Ace: Untitled - 6pp
- Art: Paul J. Lauretta
- “Siegfried Suicide” - 2pp
- Text Story by David C. Cooke, illustrated by Bill Everett
- Ka-Zar: “Third Episode” - 12pp
- Art: Ben Thompson
- Daring Mystery Comics #1, January 1940 [published 30 Oct 1939]
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Cover:
- Cover title: none - cover artist: Alex Schomburg
- Fiery Mask: “The Fantastic Thriller of the Walking Corpses” - 10pp
- Story & Art: Joe Simon
- John Steele: Untitled - 9pp
- Art: Larry Antonette [as Dean Carr]
- The Texas Kid: Untitled - 9pp
- Art: Ben Thompson
- Monako the Magician: Untitled - 11pp
- Art: Larry Antonette
- Untitled - 2pp
- Text story by Ray Gill, illustrated by Al Anders
- Flash Foster: Untitled - 8pp
- Script & Art: Bob Wood
- Phantom of the Underworld: “Case of Perrone” - 7pp
- Art: Maurice Gutwirth
- “Wartime Wonders” - 1p
- Script & Art: Harry Francis Campbell
- Barney Mullen: Untitled - 7pp
- Art: Charles Pearson [as Chas. Pearson]
December 1939
- Daring Mystery Comics #2, February 1940 [published 15 Dec 39]
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Cover:
- Cover title: none - cover artist: Alex Schomburg
- Daring Comics’ Free $25 Prize Contest! - inside front cover
- asking readers to select their favorite feature
- Zephyr Jones: Untitled - 14pp
- Script: Joe Cal Cagno, Art: Fred Schwartz
- Phantom Bullet: “Scourge of the Underworld” - 10pp
- Script & Art: Joe Simon
- Trojak: “King of the Jungle” - 10pp
- Script & Art: Joe Simon [as Gregory Sykes]
- “Six-Gun Dynamite” - 2pp
- Text story by Russell A. Bankson
- K-4 and his Sky Devils: Untitled - 10pp
- Art: Jack Alderman
- Mr. E: “Who In Reality Is Mr. ‘E’?” - 10pp
- Script: Joe Cal Cagno, Art: Al Carreno
- Laughing Mask: Untitled - 8pp
- Script: Will Harr, Art: Maurice Gutwirth [as M. Gutwirth]
