Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics, Vol. 7

Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics #7

by Carl Burgos (Illustrations), Bill Everett (Illustrations), Jack Kirby (Illustrations)

The comic book that started it all-Marvel Mystery Comics-continues its historic run in the Marvel Masterworks. Featuring the headlining heroes that made Marvel an overnight success-the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner-by Carl Burgos and Bill Everett, each issue offers a jam-packed 64 pages of thrills and adventure. And those two heroes are just the tip of the iceberg 'cause this is the Golden Age! You'll also see the conclusion of Ka-Zar's 1940s jungle adventures; the debut of the whimsical Jimmy Jupiter; and the eerie Vison's avenging hand. COLLECTING: MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS 25-28

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book

270 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Max Finkelstein created Jim Hamond, the Human Torch, for Timely Comics (later evolved into the Marvel Comics) in 1939, using the pen-name Carl Burgos. He also created the Thunderer for Daring Mystery Comics. Both series were published by Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel. He was drafted in 1942 and did mostly commercial art in subsequent years, occasionally drawing science fiction stories for Marvel, by that time known as Atlas. He also drew the first story featuring the Beetle (Abner Jenkins) in Strange Tales #123, starring Johnny Storm, the second Human Torch. Two years later, in Fantastic Four Annual #4, Marvel published a battle between the two Human Torches, resulting in the death of Jim Hamond. Although his daughter tried to preserve as much as possible, Burgos set fire to much of the Human Torch materials he had retained from the 1940s, considering the story an excuse to reassert trademark on a character they were not using simply to spite him.

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic reprint of these Golden Age of Comics issues. The first appearance of such iconic characters as the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner appear here. Great collection of rare comics. Very recommended

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series has so much cringe in it, page after page, it makes you take that face you make when you bite a lemon.

[ISMOTU · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fair dose of golden age comics goodness. This collection of "Marvel Mystery Comics" is nothing spectacular. Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner is the winner as usual but there are also decent outings from the original Human Torch and Vision.