A History of Marvel Comics, Part I: 1930s-1940s Quiz

Answer: Martin Goodman

Martin Goodman, born in 1908, had the first of his many pulp titles published in May, 1933. Stan Lee would start working there in 1939-his cousin Jean was married to Goodman, and got him a job there initially doing miscellaneous errands. Harry Donnefeld was one of the early owners of DC Comics and Everett M. Arnold started Quality Comics.

Answer: Blue Diamond

The Blue Diamond first appeared in "Daring Mystery Comics" #7, dated April, 1941.

Answer: George Maxon

Maxon was an American agent for the genuine Red Skull, Johann Schmidt. Albert Malik, a Soviet National, was an interim Red Skull who took over for a number of years after Schmidt had disappeared after WWII. Arnim Zola is a scientist who has worked for the Red Skull.

Answer: McKenzie

The Sub-Mariner was the offspring of an Atlantean, Princess Fen, and an American, Leonard McKenzie, the captain of an icebreaker ship named The Oracle.

Answer: Phineas T. Horton

In "The Marvels Project", a 2009 mini-series that re-examines the beginnings of the Marvel Universe, it is learned that Dr. Horton's project to create an artificial man was secretly funded by the U.S. government. Smythe, Harrow and Stilwell are all twisted scientists associated in one way or another with Spider-Man

Answer: Law enforcement officer

First appearing in "Marvel Mystery Comics" #13 and created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, he is from another dimension called Smokeworld.

Answer: Bill Everett

Bill Everett first created The Sub-Mariner for "Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly", a comicbook intended to be given away at movie theaters in the late 1930s. While never actually published, some copies had been printed to show theater owners. He inked several issues of "Tales To Astonish" in the late 60's featuring his creation, The Sub-Mariner, and several issues of that characters' own magazine later on in the early '70s. Carl Burgos, the creator of The Human Torch, worked for Timely, Atlas and Marvel on and off up until mid-1966. Valerie Barclay, one of the very few females in the comicbook business back then, was an inker for Timely during the 1940s and worked there until 1949. Allen Bellman worked on various Timely titles in the 1940s before going into the newspaper business.

Answer: Stan Goldberg

Stan later went on to pencil the long-running "Millie The Model" series alongside doing color work for Marvel up until the late '60s, switched to DC Comics for three years before making a permanent home with Archie Comics. Dan is a current long-standing artist and writer with Archie Comics. Irv was an artist for MLJ (later Archie) Comics, who also worked at DC Comics later on in life. John L. Goldwater was one of the three founders of MLJ.

Answer: The Fin

The All-Winners Squad originally appeared in issues 19 and 21 of "All Winners Comics"-there was no issue 20, and the members were Captain America, The Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, The Whiizzer and Miss America. The Fin was another aquatic hero created by Bill Everett who appeared in Timely's anthology series "Daring Mystery Comics" #'s 7 and 8.

Answer: Marvel Tales

"Marvel Tales", not to be confused with the 1960s version published by Marvel Comics, became a horror anthology as this was the genre becoming popular at the time.