Ant Man's Surprising Introduction! Complete History of Marvel Comics, January 1962!

[@TheLowKeyOGx]

Please never stop making these! Interesting to see you guys comb through some older books

[@victorsixtythree]

34:55 - "The Talking Horse" from Tales to Astonish #27 was drawn by Bob Forgione. (I really like that fist panel!)

[@nemobbhh294]

The guy in Ditko's yo-yo story with the blue pants, white shirt, and dark vest is dressed very similarly to Peter Parker in his debut issue.

[@AndrewBuckleBookReviews]

Wonderful overview of a great month. Love the romance / westerns / super hero / Nurse / modelling / SF / horror etc comics of that time, such a crazy mix.

[@johns9325]

I love this series. I got a coffee table "Marvel Age of Comics" for Christmas it doesn't include all the stuff you guys are covering here. Fascinating era

[@new_yawker901]

The character @27:38 in the blue and white costume had his costume recycled onto paste pot pete (trapster) on the cover of strange tales #124.

[@abh623]

Getting Saul Bass vibes from Steve Ditko's "Escape to Nowhere" splash page. Still, Ditko's one-of-a-kind.

[@danielbedrosian8869]

Kirby/Lee kept up with that chapter theme well into their run. Well past the Galactus issues for example

[@victorsixtythree]

Speaking of letters pages...I know George R.R. Martin has said that his first published writing was a letter he sent in to The Fantastic Four. Not sure which issue it was. Something to look forward to...

[@KenLieck]

Hardly anyone remembers it nowadays, but through much of the 1950s and '60s, "medical romance" was actually a major comic book genre, with dozens of titles featuring nurses' adventures and young doctors in love -- Marvel even gave it one last try in the early '70s with 3 or 4 issues of "Night Nurse"! And as to whether the dress designs in the girls' comics were really sent in by readers, for the most part I think the answer is yes. On the other hand, ever since I spotted a young P. Craig Russell's name attached to a drawing of an outfit in a 1966 Tippy Teen comic, I've been on a quest to see if any other male readers out there had the nerve to send in such submissions to "girly" comics. So far, aside from future DC Comics mainstay E. Nelson Bridwell, who fostered an apparent long-time obsession with Archie's Katie Keene comics In his youth, all of the "boys'" names that I've found credited for paper dolls/dress designs have been suspiciously familiar -- by which I mean all evidence points to them being pseudonyms for staff artists, or their relatives, or their neighbors, or whoever they could get to stick their names on such frivolity... For example Atlas' 1956 Sherry the Showgirl #2 had dress designs by Dan Dumont, Vincent De Carlo and Rudy Lapick -- who in reality were actually Dan De Carlo (using his "pussycat" wife Josie's maiden name), his brother, and his inking assistant.

[@christopherroberts4661]

The inks on the Kirby Love Romances looks like Vince Colletta.

[@Beanophilus]

I'm enjoying this. In FF2, it's interesting to see Kirby and the inker figuring out how to draw the characters. In FF1, Reed was angular and elfin. By FF2 he looks a lot like the Reed from the late 70s that I grew up with. In FF2 the Thing starts out looking like a pile of candle wax drips, but by the end of the issue he's getting a rocky brow above his eyes and on page 15 they shaded his arm in a more modern style.

[@paulocosta4744]

Millie the Model Annuals #1 (1962) - 45 pages of new stories, 25 pages of pin-ups and gags, no reprints #2 (1963) - 52 pages of new stories, 18 pages of pin-ups and gags, no reprints #3 (1964) - 48 pages of new stories (Millie the Model origin, multi-chapter), 19 pages of pin-ups and gags, no reprints Strange Tales Annuals #1 (1962) - 72 pages of reprints (monsters and SF), no new stories #2 (1963) - 18 pages of all-new Spider-Man/Human Torch team-up (Kirby pencils, Ditko inks), 51 pages of reprints (monsters and SF)

[@justinandrews520]

I love this series so much. I hope you guys come to Denver Comic Con!

[@billyhaney5117]

Marvel was clearly hedging their bets on the super-hero thing with the early FF.. Monsters, aliens, no costumes...they didn't want to lose that audience who was buying their monster comics. And the inker on that Kirby issue of LOVE ROMANCES is Vince Colletta.

[@jamessatter7418]

You guys are the best!

[@Matthew_Ellis]

Love this series!

[@Wurmzilla]

That’s a really beautiful comic, top to bottom

[@Wurmzilla]

Speaking of the first one you were looking at

[@slowhed]

loving this series!

[@Gootie29]

I'm really enjoying this run through early Marvel. Some of the pages almost look like John Buscema touched them. When did he come to Marvel?

[@Matthew.E.Kelly.]

Technically he worked at Marvel before they were Marvel, during the Timely Comics era -- his tenure was from about '48-50 I think? -- before leaving to freelance at Golden Key, Charlton, & others. From there he went into advertising & marketing until his return to comics at Marvel, which if I remember right was 1965 or 1966? But there are several works from the late 40s & early 50s that _appear_ to have his touch but aren't credited, or are credited to ill-documented names which may have been pseudonyms. Tons of artists & designers from other fields did that a lot back in those days, so it wouldn't surprise me to find out he had done so as well.

[@PanchaMaestro]

Shame if you guys gave up on this series