JTD Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Was reading an article and learned that Ka-Zar has been around longer than Sub-Mariner or any other character in Marvel Comics...started buying comics in 1980 and never knew this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01TheDude Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Never really thought or knew about it-- assumed he was a Marvel creation of the 1960s but you are totally correct according to Wikipedia--- 1936 in pulps first and then in Timely Comics. Popularity matters apparently. I always sort of thought of him as a knockoff of Tarzan - which might be true since Tarzan does predate him. sagekilz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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James J Johnson Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) 57 minutes ago, JTD said: Was reading an article and learned that Ka-Zar has been around longer than Sub-Mariner or any other character in Marvel Comics...started buying comics in 1980 and never knew this. Ka-Zar was in Marvel Comics 1 (1939), right along with Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch. He was introduced in the pulps 3 years earlier. The All-Story, a pulp magazine with a comic-like cover introduced Tarzan, the first "comic-like" appearance in Oct. 1912, a few months after he was first introduced in hardcover form earlier in 1912. Edited August 29, 2019 by James J Johnson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTD Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 1 minute ago, James J Johnson said: Ka-Zar was in Marvel Comics 1 (1939), right along with Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch. He was introduced in the pulps 3 years earlier. The All-Story, a pulp magazine with a comic-like cover introduced Tarzan, the first "comic-like" appearance in Oct. 1912, a few months after he was introduced in hardcover form. Good info... Without googling, wasn't Sub-Mariner around a few months prior to Marvel Comics #1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James J Johnson Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 11 minutes ago, JTD said: Good info... Without googling, wasn't Sub-Mariner around a few months prior to Marvel Comics #1? Yes. In Motion Picture Funnies Weekly. A giveaway targeted for movie theater distribution. There's only about 8 copies known as they were never mass produced and what exists was found in the desk of one of the people involved in its production. It had a cartoonish cover, but the original Bill Everett Sub-Mariner story, just the first 8 pages. 4 more pages were added in Marvel Comics 1. I think I have that right. Google Motion Picture Funnies Weekly and you'll get the full accurate story. dupont2005 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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