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Martin Goodman (also Morris Goodman; born Moe Goodman; January 18, 1908 – June 6, 1992) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, digest sized magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, who founded the comics magazine company Timely Comics in 1939.
…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… Read More
Jun 23, 2024 · Marvel became the most successful producer of comic books in the world. In the January 16, 1966 issue of Family Magazine, Dave Burgin reported, "Marvel publisher Martin Goodman admitted he is flabbergasted at booming sales, especially among adults. Publishing seventeen titles, Marvel sales now stand at thirty-three million annually, double the ...
Martin Goodman (born in 1908 as Moe Goodman, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States; died June 6, 1992, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, launching the company that would become Marvel Comics.
Martin Goodman (born as Moe Goodman, January 18, 1908 – June 6, 1992) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books.
Jun 11, 1992 · Martin Goodman, who as founder and publisher for many years of Marvel Comics invented such popular characters as Captain America and Spiderman, died on June 6 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He...
Mar 18, 2019 · For a brief seven-year period in the 1950s, publisher Martin Goodman’s Atlas Comics weathered the comics industry’s many storms to chart a course for its inheritor, Marvel Comics, to inaugurate a bold new era of innovation and creativity.
In 1931, Goodman, Silberkleit and Maurice Coyne co-founded Columbia Publications. It was an early publisher of the so-called pulp magazines.
Jun 17, 1992 · Martin Goodman, 84, whose Marvel Comics created such characters as Captain America and Spider-Man. Goodman began his career in comics in the 1930s, first supplying other publishers with his...
Jan 3, 2022 · The legend goes that in 1962 Martin Goodman, the owner and publisher of Atlas Comics, went golfing with an executive from the rival comic book company National Periodical Publications. During that golf game, Goodman learned that National was finding success with a title featuring a super hero team called the Justice League of America.
