Martin Goodman (born¹ 1910, 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. 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Palm Beach is the name of several places: Palm Beach, New South Wales is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,794 sq. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Categories: Stub | Books ... The March, 1963 cover of For Men Only promises, among other things, a tale of Swastika Slave Girls in Argentinas No-Escape Brothel Camp! Mens adventure is a genre of pulp magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and early 1960s. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... It has been suggested that Felicia (pseudonym) be merged into this article or section. ...

Pulps and the Golden Age of Comics

Uncanny Tales (May 1940), one of Goodman's Red Circle pulp magazines

In 1931, Goodman, Louis Silberkeit, and Maurice Coyne formed Columbia Publications to publish pulp magazines. The following year, Goodman went on his own, while Silberkeit and Coyne would join with John L. Goldwater in 1939 to form what is now Archie Comics. Goodman's companies included Red Circle and his pulps included All Star Adventure Fiction Complete Western Book, Mystery Tales, Real Sports, Star Detective, the science fiction magazine Marvel Science Stories and the jungle-story magazine Ka-Zar. Image File history File links UncannyTales. ... Image File history File links UncannyTales. ... Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle, and Forsythe Jughead Jones. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

At the close of the 1930s, Human Torch, and the first generally available appearance of Namor the Sub-Mariner. The comic, which changed its name to Marvel Mystery Comics with issue #2, proved a hit, launching the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. Goodman, whose business strategy involved using many different corporate names, used Timely Comics as the general umbrella title for this division. The Human Torch is a comic book character. ... Namor the Sub-Mariner is a fictional character featured in Marvel Comics, and one of the oldest superhero characters. ... Timely Comics is the 1940s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. ...

Marvel Comics #1, featuring the Human Torch. Art by Frank R. Paul.

His comic-book company continued its success in 1941 with the introduction of the seminal patriotic superhero, Captain America, created by writer Joe Simon, Marvel's first editor, and artist Jack Kirby. After the hit-making Simon & Kirby team departed after 10 issues, Goodman appointed Stan Lee as the comic-book division's editor, a position Lee would hold for decades through the company's evolution to Marvel. Marvel Comics #1 This image is a book cover. ... Marvel Comics #1 This image is a book cover. ... Frank Rudolph Paul (April 18, 1884 - June 29, 1963) was an illustrator of US pulp-magazines in the science fiction field. ... Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Grant Rogers), is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... Joe Simon (born 1915) was a comic book author and cartoonist who created or co-created many memorable characters in the Golden Age. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. ...

With the post-war lessening of interest in superheroes, Goodman turned his comics company to a wider variety of genres than previously, publishing horror, Westerns, teen humor, crime and war comics during the 1950s, when the company was known generally as Atlas Comics. Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ... Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. ...

Paperback books

Lion Books' The Montana Vixen (1952)

Goodman started Lion Books, a paperback line, in 1949, using the name Red Circle Books for the first seven titles plus an additional two later. Most were novels, but there was a smattering of mostly sports-oriented nonfiction. Gooodman eventually developed two lines, the 25¢ Lion and the 35¢ Lion Library. Image File history File links MontanaVixen. ... Image File history File links MontanaVixen. ...

New American Library bought Lion in 1957, and several Lion titles were reprinted under its Signet label. Authors that Lion published included such notables as Robert Bloch, David Goodis and Jim Thompson. Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago, Illinois-September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. ... David Goodis (1917–1967) was a popular American noir writer. ... The following men have had the name James Thompson: James Thompson, a missionary in the 1820s. ...

Marvel Comics

In 1961, following rival DC Comics' successful revival of superheroes a few years earlier, comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee and freelance artist Jack Kirby debuted The Fantastic Four #1, the first hit of what would become Marvel Comics. The newly naturalistic comics, in which superheroes bickered, worried about money and behaved more like everyday people than noble archetypes, changed the industry. Lee, Kirby and such artists as Steve Ditko and Don Heck eventually ushered in a string of hit characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and the X-Men. DC Comics (originally called National Periodical Publications or National Periodicals) is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Fantastic Four (sometimes called the FF) are a Marvel Comics superhero group. ... The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964): Cover art by Ditko. ... Don Heck (January 2, 1929-1995) was a comic book artist best known for co-creating the character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling The Avengers in the 1960s. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... Iron Man (Anthony Tony Stark) is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Incredible Hulk redirects here. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ...

In 1968, Goodman sold his publishing businesses to the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation. It grouped these businesses in a subsidiary called Magazine Management Co. Goodman remained as publisher until 1972. Two years later he founded a new comics company, Seaboard Periodicals, but it folded a year afterward. Atlas/Seaboard is the term that comic book historians and collectors use to refer to the short-lived line of comics published as Atlas Comics by Seaboard Periodicals, to differentiate it from Atlas Comics, the former name of Marvel Comics. ...

Men's magazines

Goodman's Magazine Management Company also published such men's adventure magazines as For Men Only, Male and Stag, edited during the 1950s by Noah Sarlat. As well, there was such ephemera as a black-and-white "nudie cutie" comic, The Adventures of Pussycat (Oct. 1968) that reprinted some stories of the sexy, tongue-in-cheek secret-agent strip that ran in some of his men's magazines. Marvel/Atlas writers Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Ernie Hart and artists Wally Wood, Al Hartley, Jim Mooney and Bill Everett and "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward contributed. The March, 1963 cover of For Men Only promises, among other things, a tale of Swastika Slave Girls in Argentinas No-Escape Brothel Camp! Mens adventure is a genre of pulp magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and early 1960s. ... The Adventures of Pussycat one-shot (Oct. ... Stan Lee and his most famous co-creation, Spider-Man. ... Larry Lieber (born October 26, 1931) is a comic book artist and writer and is the younger brother of Marvel Comics writer/editor Stan Lee. ... Ernie Hart a. ... Wallace Wally Wood (born June 17, 1927, Menahga, Minnesota, United States; died November 2, 1981), was an American writer-artist best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ... Allan Hartley (born 1921, Kearny, New Jersey; died May 27, 2003) is an American comic book writer-artist known for his work on Archie Comics, on the 1950s Atlas line, and many Christian comics. ... Jim Mooney (born 1919) is an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics Silver Age Supergirl. ... 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. ... Rangers Comics #26: Angels from Hell Good girl art (GGA) is a type of art (usually drawings or paintings) depicting attractive women. ... A cartoonist at work. ... Bill Ward Bill Ward (born May 5, 1948, Birmingham, England), is the drummer for the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. ...

Another division, Humorama, published digest-sized magazines of girlie cartoons by Ward, Bill Wenzel and Archie Comics great Dan De Carlo, as well as black-and-white photos of pin-up models including Bettie Page, Eve Meyer, stripper Lili St. Cyr and actresses Joi Lansing, Tina Louise, Irish McCalla, Julie Newmar and others. Abe Goodman, a relative, headed this division. Titles included Breezy, Gaze, Gee-Whiz, Joker, Stare, and Snappy. They were published from at least the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. Digestion is the process whereby a biological entity processes a substance, in order to chemically convert the substance into nutrients. ... Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle, and Forsythe Jughead Jones. ... Dan DeCarlo (December 12, 1917 - December 19, 2001) was arguably one of the most widely-viewed comic book artists of the 20th century, and one of the most prolific in terms of output. ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... This image of Betty Grable became the archetype of pin-ups during World War II A pin-up girl is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. ... DVD cover for Betty Page - Bondage Queen Bettie Mae Page (born April 22, 1923), sometimes known as Betty Page, is an American model and pin-up girl, active mostly in the 1950s. ... Eve Meyer (born December 13, 1928 in Griffin, Georgia, died March 27, 1977) was an American pin-up model, motion picture actor and later, film producer. ... A striptease dancer performing. ... Lili St. ... Joi Lansing was the screen name of Joyce Wassmansdoff, born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 6, 1928. ... Tina Louise Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, singer, and film and television actress, best known for her portrayal of Ginger Grant on Gilligans Island. ... 1950s publicity still as TVs Sheena Nellie Elizabeth Irish McCalla (born December 25, 1928 or 1929 (sources differ), Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States; died February 1, 2002, Tucson, Arizona) was an American actress and artist best-known as the title star of the 1950s television series Sheena, Queen of... Julie Newmar as Catwoman Julie Newmar (born August 16, 1933 as Julia Charlene Newmeyer) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. ...

In addition to men's adventure magazines and Humorama, Goodman also published many other magazines covering a plethora of topics including several male oriented glossy 5"x7" digests in the early-to-mid 1950s (e.g. Focus, Photo and Eye) prior to the development of Humorama, as well as many romance, film and television, sports and other general interest magazines spanning several decades.

Quotes

Dorothy Gallagher, "Adventures in the Mag Trade" (The New York Times on the Web, May 31, 1998) [1]: "At Magazine Management, magazines were produced the way Detroit produced cars. I worked on the fan-magazine line. On the other side of a five-foot partition was the romance-magazine line. And across a corridor were the financial staples of the organization, the men's magazines — Stag, For Men Only, Male — for which, at one time or another, Mario Puzo, Bruce Jay Friedman, David Markson, Mickey Spillane and Martin Cruz Smith wrote, until they became too exalted and rich to do it anymore. I'm almost forgetting the comic-book line, where Stan Lee [co-]created Spider-Man, known to every connoisseur of classic comics." May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Mario Puzo Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his fictional books about the Mafia. ... Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930) is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who is credited with formalizing, if not inventing, black comedy as we know it. ... David Markson is an American author, born in Albany, New York, in 1927. ... Frank Morrison Spillane (born March 9, 1918), better known as Mickey Spillane, is an American author of crime novels. ... Martin Cruz Smith (né Martin William Smith, later changed his middle name to Cruz after his grandmothers surname) was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA in 1942. ...

Adam Parfrey, It's A Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps ISBN 0922915814 [2]: "Most scribes laboring for Martin Goodman's Magazine Management firm and other repositories of adventure magazines spoke of feeling like well-compensated slaves of a very particular style ['man triumphant'] that was not their own. This was not the style with which editor Bruce Jay Friedman felt most comfortable, and when editing publications for Martin Goodman he unsuccessfully tried to talk him out of running advertisements for trusses, an ad signalling the magazine's target audience: blue-collar yahoos. It would be years before he could raise his head at industry cocktail parties, when his acclaimed examples of 'black-humor fiction' were seen as appropriate material for a hipper, more monied crowd."

Roy Thomas [3]: "I was startled to learn in '65 that Marvel was just part of a parent company called Magazine Management. A lot of people from other departments went on to fame and fortune during Marvel's early days: Bruce Jay Friedman, Mario Puzo, Ernest Tidyman, and Rona Barrett". Roy Thomas (born November 22, 1940, Missouri, United States) is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lees first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. ... Bruce Jay Friedman (born April 26, 1930) is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who is credited with formalizing, if not inventing, black comedy as we know it. ... Mario Puzo Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his fictional books about the Mafia. ... Ernest Tidyman (January 1, 1928 - July 14, 1984) is an American author and Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. ... Rona Barrett (born October 8, 1936) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. ...

List of Goodman's pulp magazines

• Adventure Trails
• All Star Adventure Fiction
• All Star Adventure Magazine
• All Star Detective Stories
• American Sky Devils
• The Angel Detective
• Best Love Magazine
• Best Sports Magazine
• Best Western Magazine
• Complete Detective
• Complete Sports
• Complete War Novels
• Complete Western Book Magazine
• Cowboy Action Novels
• Detective Mysteries
• Detective Short Stories
• Detective Star Magazine
• Dynamic Science Stories
• Famous Stories
• Gunsmoke Western
• Ka-zar
• Ka-zar the Great
• Marvel Science Stories
• Marvel Tales
• Marvel Stories
• Marvel Science Stories
• Marvel Science Fiction
• Mystery Tales
• Real Confessions
• Real Love
• Real Mystery Magazine
• Real Sports
• Six-Gun Western
• Sky Devils
• Sports Action
• Star Detective Magazine
• Star Sports Magazine
• Top-Notch Detective
• Top-Notch Western
• Two-Gun Western Stories
• Two-Gun Western Novel Magazine
• Uncanny Stories
• Uncanny Tales
• War Stories Magazine
• Western Fiction Monthly
• Western Novelettes
• Western Short Stories
• Wild West Stories & Complete Novel Magazine

Footnotes

• Note 1: Daniels, Les, Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1991), p. 17 (offline) gives 1910, Brooklyn, for birth; the Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Division: Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection, "Goo" to "Goodman" gives life-dates as 1910-1992.

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References

• The Timely Comics Story
• A List of Pre-Golden Age Marvel Magazines
• Lion
• POV Online: "The Marvel Age of Huge Breasts" by Mark Evanier
• Comic Book Artist #2 (Summer 1998): "Stan the Man & Roy the Boy: A Conversation Between Stan Lee and Roy Thomas"
• Tony's Online Tips, July 2, 2003
• Humorama