The Human Torch, for example, helped British aviators, not to mention the cover in which Captain America came to hit Hitler The public welcomed this war theme in comics quite well, selling thousands and thousands of copies.Īs for Lee, after a break in which he was forced to enlist in the army, the cartoonist returned to a publishing house, but things had changed a lot: those superheroes were no longer as interesting and in the comic world people I asked for other types of content. One of the high points of this beginning is found by Timely Publications when it began to confront its superheroes with the Nazis, two years before the outbreak of World War II. The company's staff began to grow as they sold comics and more cartoonists joined, including a young man who just finished high school named Stanley Martin who signed with the pseudonym Stan Lee. Due to the boom that comics were beginning to experience, he decided to expand the business to this segment, hiring the services of Funnies Inc., a workshop for cartoonists and writers that specialized precisely in the creation of this type of content. Its founder was a young businessman named Martin Goodman, who already had a small publisher called Western Fiction Publishing. Property of The Walt Disney Company, it is an American entertainment company (currently with various subsidiaries), which has its the origin en 1939, when he was born under the name of Timely Publications. Behind this brand hides one of the most important comic book publishers in the world, in which some of the best-known superheroes of the last decades have been created. You have to live in a very (very) deep cave to not know what Marvel is (or at least recognize its name).

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