Martin Goodman

…golf game with his contemporary, Martin Goodman, publisher of Marvel Comics. Marvel, then limping along in the marketplace with a handful of monster and thriller series, needed a boost, and so Goodman directed his staff editor and writer Stan Lee to create a group of superheroes to compete with Justice…

…1939 by pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman. In order to capitalize on the growing popularity of comic books—especially those starring superheroes—Goodman created Timely Comics. Timely’s first comic book was Marvel Comics no. 1 (cover dated October 1939), which featured several superhero characters, most notably the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.…

…comic line for pulp publisher Martin Goodman. The comic, and particularly the Torch and Sub-Mariner characters, proved a hit, and Timely soon grew to become one of the era’s biggest companies, eventually emerging as the Marvel Comics that readers know today.