Carl Burgos is an American comic book and advertising artist, born April 18, 1917, New York City; died 1984. His most famous creation is the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1, the first comic published by Timely, predecessor of Marvel Comics. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ... Artist is a subjective term which describes a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, their endeavors. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... For the Fantastic Four member of the same name, see Human Torch (Johnny Storm) The original Human Torch is a fictional character who was created in 1938 by Carl Burgos for Timely Comics first comic book, titled Marvel Comics. ... Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ... Marvel Comics NYSE: MVL, sometimes called by the nickname The House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ...

Even before creating the android Human Torch, Burgos created the robot hero The Iron Skull in Centaur Publishing's Amazing-Man Comics #5 (Sept. 1939). Burgos and others followed Centaur art director Lloyd Jacquet when the latter formed Funnies, Inc., a packager creating comics on demand for publishers. Jacquet's first sale was to the newly formed Timely Comics, for which Marvel Comics #1 (Nov. 1939) would star Burgos' Human Torch as well as Paul Gustavson's pencil-mustached, costumed detective the Angel and Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner, expanding an origin story Everett had created for a never-released promotional comic. A painted cover by veteran science-fiction pulp artist Frank R. Paul featured the Torch. An android is an artificially created robotic being that resembles a human being usually both in appearance and behaviour. ... A humanoid robot playing the trumpet In practical usage, a robot is an autonomous or semi-autonomous device which performs its tasks either according to direct human control, partial control with human supervision, or completely autonomously. ... Amazing Man is a name used by several fictional characters, all of them superheroes. ... The term art director is an overall title for a variety of similar job functions in publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Paul Gustavson (nee Gustafson), 1916-1977, is an American comic-book writer and artist whose most notable creation was the Golden Age of Comics hero, The Angel who appeared Marvel Comics #1, the first publication of Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics]], and made more than 100 appearances. ... The Angel (Golden Age) The Angel is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, created by writer-artist Paul Gustavson in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. ... Bill Everett (May 18, 1917 – February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer/illustrator most famous for the creation of Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics. ... Namor the Sub-Mariner is a fictional character, featured in Marvel Comics. ... A collection of well-known science-fiction novels and magazines Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. ... Pulp magazines (often referred to as the pulps) were inexpensive fiction magazines widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Frank Rudolph Paul (April 18, 1884 - June 29, 1963) was an illustrator of US pulp-magazines in the science fiction field. ...

Burgos' character proved a hit, and quickly went on to headline one of comics' first single-character titles, The Human Torch (premiering fall 1940 with no cover date and as issue #2, having taken over the numbering from the single-issue Red Raven).

Burgos was educated at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He left comics in 1942, spending most of the next quarter-century in advertising. In 1966, he created a short-lived character called Captain Marvel, no relation to either the old Fawcett Comics superhero nor to Marvel's Captain Marvel, for Myron Fass' M.F. Enterprises. The National Academy of Design, in New York City, now called simply The National Academy, is an honorary association of American artists, with a museum and a school of fine arts. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ... Captain Marvel, as a comic book character name, refers to one of several fictional characters, listed here in chronological order: Captain Marvel (DC Comics) is a superhero created by C.C. Beck and Bill Parker; a young boy named Billy Batson who transforms into a man empowered with attributes of... Whiz Comics #2, the first appearance of Captain Marvel, the companys most popular character. ... A number of comic book superheroes by Marvel Comics have been called Captain Marvel. ... M.F. Enterprises was a very short-lived comic book publisher owned by Myron Fass, a long-time artist who later got into publishing for many years. ...

After Marvel used the Human Torch name and superpowers for The Fantastic Four's teen member Johnny Storm, in 1961, Burgos pursued a lawsuit to assert ownership of the character. This was unsuccessful. Burgos nonetheless contributed art to some mid-1960s Giant-Man stories in Marvel's Tales to Astonish, as well as to a Johnny Storm Human Torch story in Strange Tales #123. Marvel eventually revived Burgos' original Human Torch for present-day stories. The Fantastic Four (sometimes called the FF) are a Marvel Comics superhero group. ... The Human Torch is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe. ... Tales to Astonish #44 Tales to Astonish is the name of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics. ... Strange Tales is the name of several comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. ...

In the 1970s, Burgos would serve as an editor for Fass' Eerie Publications line of black-and-white, horror-comic magazines. Eerie Publications was a publisher of black-and-white, horror-anthology comics magazines. ... Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

References

Michigan State University Libraries, Special Collections Division, Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection: "Bureau" to "Buriko" and "Human Tank" to "Human Zeros"

External Links

• The Timely Comics Story
• Oddball Comics