Marvel Mystery Comics #2

By Paul Gustavson, David C. Cooke, Bill Everett, and more

1939

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3.10

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Number of Pages

2H03M

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Marvel Mystery Comics

Series · 7 books

By David C. Cooke, Ben Thompson, Al Anders, and more

A historic comic series dating all the way back to 1939! Featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and more, this one’s sure to thrill any Marvel comic buff!

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3.10

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Authors

Paul Gustavson

Author · 2 books

Paul Gustavson (né Karl Paul Gustafson) was an American-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and the Angel, who debuted in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics. The Angel would star in more than 100 stories in the 1940s. The Human Bomb would later be acquired by DC Comics and make sporadic appearances as late as 2005.

David C. Cooke

Author · 1 books

(Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.) David Coxe Cooke, credited as David. C. Cooke, was a writer and illustrator of children's nonfiction.

Bill Everett

Author · 2 books

William Blake Everett, aka Bill Everett, was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner as well as co-creating Zombie and Daredevil with writer Stan Lee for Marvel Comics. He was a descendant of the poet William Blake and of Richard Everett, founder of Dedham, Massachusetts.

Carl Burgos

Author · 6 books

Max Finkelstein created Jim Hamond, the Human Torch, for Timely Comics (later evolved into the Marvel Comics) in 1939, using the pen-name Carl Burgos. He also created the Thunderer for Daring Mystery Comics. Both series were published by Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel. He was drafted in 1942 and did mostly commercial art in subsequent years, occasionally drawing science fiction stories for Marvel, by that time known as Atlas. He also drew the first story featuring the Beetle (Abner Jenkins) in Strange Tales #123, starring Johnny Storm, the second Human Torch. Two years later, in Fantastic Four Annual #4, Marvel published a battle between the two Human Torches, resulting in the death of Jim Hamond. Although his daughter tried to preserve as much as possible, Burgos set fire to much of the Human Torch materials he had retained from the 1940s, considering the story an excuse to reassert trademark on a character they were not using simply to spite him.

Ben Thompson

Author · 2 books

Benton F. Thompson was an American newspaper cartoonist, who also worked as a comic book artist during the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Paul J. Lauretta was an artist for National Publications and Timely Comics during the Golden-Age of comics. He was one of Joe Shuster's early assistants on the 'Superman' comic. He primarily inked stories and did backgrounds, but he also did pencilling on some of the dailies. He was also the writer of the 'American Ace' comics, that appeared in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly. When he left Timely publishers, he continued the comic as 'Lieutenant Lank' at Centaur. Lauretta studied art at the Art Institute of New York and worked for years as a commercial artist for the Western Electric Company and Merrimack Valley Credit Union. Paul J. Lauretta died of cancer in October 2000.