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Marvel
First appearance of Dr. Doom
Tales to Astonish
27
Marvel
First appearance of Hank Pym
Fantastic Four
2
Marvel
Second appearance of the Fantastic Four, first appearance of the Skrulls
Green Lantern
1
DC Comics
First issue
Amazing Spider-Man
2
Marvel
First appearance of the Vulture
Action Comics
252
DC Comics
First appearance of Kara “Supergirl” Zor-El
See also
Golden Age of Comic Books
Bronze Age of Comic Books
Modern Age of Comic Books
Footnotes
^ Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, Timely and Atlas publisher Martin Goodman was playing golf with either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of rival DC Comics (then known as National Periodical Publications), who bragged about DC’s success with the Justice League, which had debuted in The Brave and the Bold #28 (February 1960) before going on to its own title.
Film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan later contradicted some specifics, while supporting the story’s framework:
Irwin said he never played golf with Goodman, so the story is untrue. I heard this story more than a couple of times while sitting in the lunchroom at DC’s 909 Third Avenue and 75 Rockefeller Plaza office as Sol Harrison and [production chief] Jack Adler were schmoozing with some of us … who worked for DC during our college summers…. [T]he way I heard the story from Sol was that Goodman was playing with one of the heads of Independent News, not DC Comics (though DC owned Independent News). … As the distributor of DC Comics, this man certainly knew all the sales figures and was in the best position to tell this tidbit to
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