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Carl Burgos (/ ˈ b ɜːr ɡ oʊ s / BUR-gohss; born Max Finkelstein [2] / ˈ f ɪ ŋ k əl s t iː n / FING-kəl-steen; April 18, 1916 – March 1984 [1]) was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), during the period historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books.
Following his debut in the hit Marvel Comics #1, [2] the Human Torch proved popular enough that he soon became one of the first superheroes to headline a solo title. Through the 1940s, the Torch starred or was featured in Marvel Mystery Comics (the book's title beginning with issue #2), The Human Torch (premiering with issue #2, Fall 1940, having taken over the numbering of the defunct Red ...
The Invaders team first appeared in flashback stories set during World War II, and comprised existing characters from Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel.. Originally, Captain America (Steve Rogers), his sidekick Bucky (James Barnes), the original android Human Torch ("Jim Hammond"), the Torch's sidekick Toro (Thomas Raymond) and Namor the Sub-Mariner were together as heroes ...
Spider-Man & The Human Torch: Spider-Man/Human Torch #1-5 August 2009 978-0785140047: The Thing & The Human Torch by Dan Slott: Spider-Man/Human Torch #1-5, The Thing #1-8 August 2018 978-1302913359: Human Torch by Karl Kesel & Skottie Young: The Complete Collection: Human Torch (vol. 3) #1-12 July 2014 978-0785190981: Marvel Two-In-One Vol. 1 ...
Young Men #25 (Feb. 1954): Cover art by Carl Burgos. [2] Note the Atlas globe in the top left corner. Atlas Comics was the successor of Timely Comics, the company that magazine and paperback novel publisher Martin Goodman founded in 1939, and which had reached the peak of its popularity during the war years with its star characters the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and Captain America. [3]
Other 1950s work includes an issue of 3-D Comics from St. John Publications and "The Return of the Human Torch" (minus the opening page, drawn by character-creator Carl Burgos) in Young Men #24 (Dec. 1953), [7] [11] the flagship of Atlas' ill-fated effort to revive superheroes, which had fallen out of fashion in the post-war U.S.
David E. Scherman (March 2, 1916 – May 5, 1997) was an American photojournalist and editor. Born in Manhattan to a Celia née Harris and William Scherman [1], Jewish family, [2] he grew up in New Rochelle, New York and then attended Dartmouth College. He graduated in 1936 and became a photographer for Life magazine, covering World War II.
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fashion and fine-art photographer there.