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Issue: Marvel Comics #1
Publication Date: October 1939
 
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Variant: 1st Printing
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Timely Publications
On Sale Date: 08/31/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 429173.

Indicia (transcription courtesy of Frank Motler):

Vol.1, No.1, MARVEL COMICS, Oct., 1939 Published monthly by Timely Publications, publication office, 81 Spring St., Newark, N. J. Executive office, 330 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Art and editorial by Funnies Incorporated, 45 W. 45th St., New York, N. Y. Application for entry as Second Class Matter pending at the Post Office at Newark, N. J. Yearly subscription in U. S. and Canada, $1.50; elsewhere $2.00. No actual person is named or delineated in this magazine. Copyright, 1939 by Timely Publications. Printed in U.S.A.

According to Rip at the collector-society.com boards, the print runs were 80,000 on the October edition and 800,000 on the November edition.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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Assets1
 
 
Title Pages Job Number Notes
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Illustration on Cover, Front
1    
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Cartoon on Interior Page(s)
1   Inside front cover. Five single panel gag cartoons.
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Story on Interior Page(s)
16   The Human Torch wears blue uniform in this story.
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Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
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Story on Interior Page(s)
12    
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Story on Interior Page(s)
8    
Jungle Terror: A Complete Adventure Story
Story on Interior Page(s)
6    
Burning Rubber
Text Story on Interior Page(s)
2    
[untitled]
Story on Interior Page(s)
12   Adapted from Bob Byrd's "King of Fang and Claw" (KA-ZAR (pulp magazine) #1).
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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)
1   Located on inside rear cover.
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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)
1   Ad for a range of products from Johnson Smith & Co. located on the back cover.

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