{"id":4208,"date":"2014-11-04T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:40:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T04:40:29","slug":"celebrating-marvels-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2014\/11\/04\/celebrating-marvels-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Marvel’s 75 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Marvel<\/a>These days, it’s all about the pop — movies, TV and comics, but particularly the movies — when it comes to Marvel. But in 1933, it was pulp.<\/p>\n

Before comic books, Martin Goodman<\/strong> jumped into the pulp magazine world in 1933 with Western Supernovel Magazine<\/em>, which became Complete Western Book Magazine<\/em> with its next issue. In a few years he was publishing a wide range of pulp magazines — from Black Book Detective Magazine<\/em> and Best Love Magazine<\/em>, to Ka-Zar<\/em> and Complete Sports<\/em>, to Star Detective Magazine<\/em> and Sky Devils<\/em> — under a variety of companies, including Newsstand Publications, Manvis Publications, Atlas News Co., and Stadium Publishing, all loosely under his Red Circle Magazine group.<\/p>\n

In 1938, the popularity of comic books leaped as Superman<\/strong> bounded into the skies. Goodman joined in the superhero genre the next year with Marvel Comics<\/em> featuring the Human Torch<\/strong> and the Sub-Mariner<\/strong>, a title echoing his short-live pulp Marvel Science Stories<\/em>. His Funnies Inc. comics soon became Timely, then Atlas, and eventually, in 1961, the familiar Marvel.<\/p>\n

ABC airs “Marvel: 75 Years, From Pulp to Pop!” at 9 p.m. tonight here in the east. (Check your local schedule for time in your area.) Let’s hope there’s a segment on the pulps in the hour-long show — since they are<\/em> mentioned in the title.<\/p>\n

Below is a little teaser for Marvel’s 75th anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n