The First Crossover in Marvel History | The Marvel Project

Join Isaac in the T.I.M.E. Machine as he takes a look at the last comics published in the year 1940! This one also includes the first ever crossover event in the history of Marvel comics. Also-- will Isaac find out who dropped off these issues at his doorstep? Find out only in this video!
Episode 2 of The Marvel Project.
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[@DanTheMeek]

7:51 : I like how, due to the lack of commas or "and", the cover gives the impression that the comic also features a single character named Electro Ka-Zar the great masked raider. I feel like perhaps a robotic version of Ka-Zar who also wears a mask while raiding would have been better then all 3 of the individuals characters. Anyway, found your channel yesterday, proud to say I was your 102nd subscriber, quite enjoying this content, hope your channel continues to grow!

[@trystandoyen4194]

Next to Torch, Namor and Ka-Zar Electro was always one of my favourites. Philo Zog is is fun

[@yanceynitzsche5115]

The text pieces were included so the publisher could classify their comics as "magazines", thus qualifying for cheaper postage rates. They truly didn't care about them, so no one should feel bad about skipping them. Ol' Stan did get his start by writing one in Captain America though, and occasionally they are not the worse prose diversions ever.

[@ivdcomics]

This is an interesting bit of context that I didn't know! Thanks for sharing

[@yanceynitzsche5115]

Happy to use my comics scholarship for good. Liking what you're doing here, hope it flourishes! @@ivdcomics

[@yanceynitzsche5115]

Happy to use my comics history scholarship for good. Liking what you're building here, hope it flourishes!@@ivdcomics

[@ratmankey]

They also get marginally more interesting later, including hero crossovers and origin stories. And Mickey Spillane wrote a couple in his early days

[@dlee827]

Mickley Spillane and Patricia Highsmith both wrote for comics in the Golden Age.

[@kurumais]

america had millions and millions of castle in the golden age unfortunately the superheroes blew them all up

[@wizwonder99]

Keep these up buddy, they’re great! ❤👍🔥

[@Alexandervs.Thegovernment]

I have been concidering something like this but now i have an excuse to not do it because you did it better i hope your channel gets a lot more attention so more people can have the same excuse as me

[@matthewhood7844]

The art for Little Hercules looks like E. C. Segar of Popeye fame.

[@ratmankey]

That's because it was by Bud Sagendorf, who went on to take over Popeye for like 40 years. He made good stuff!

[@matthewhood7844]

@@ratmankey Thanks for the information.

[@elmeromogollon]

mexican pete, but his friends call him pedro.

[@ronthornton6398]

I need more involving *that* static shock. Need some respect on Virgil's name

[@ivdcomics]

I'm with you! Static Shock revival when??

[@matthewhood7844]

29:00 Electro, the robot in the red and yellow armor, is called Iron Man decades before Marvel has a character called Iron Man.

[@ivdcomics]

Good catch! The writers of Electro regularly refer to the robot as an "Iron Man" which is very interesting! Maybe I'll find a way to cover this in the next one.

[@RodrigoGarcia-ze5em]

​@@ivdcomics in a future video, it woukd be great if you were s able to mention some protoypes of marvel characters and concepts. For example Stan Lee's X-men prototype first appeared in an Amazing Adult Fantasy story called "the man in the sky" and there's an Amazing Adventures story called "Dr Droom" and the character is clearly a prototype of Dr Strsnge. A far more obvious example is Tales to Astonish #36, as the character of Madame X is clearly a prototype of the Black Widow (who would appear for the first time in Tales of Suspense #52).I personally feel far more comic book historians should talk about the prototype versions.