Celebrating the Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary- 4 years late...

In 2009, Marvel Comics celebrated 70 years as a publisher. Starting out as Timely Comics in 1939, the company floundering against the DC Comics powerhouse until the mid-sixties when editor Stan Lee changed the company's name to Marvel and introduced us to the "Marvel Age of Comics."
   Much has been made of the Fantastic Four, Spider-man, Thor, Iron Man, and their flagship myriad of titles starring the X-Men. So, for this anniversary, Marvel decided to focus on the original line-up of heroes and titles that started in 1939. Sub-Mariner, the original Human Torch and the original Vision are amongst the most well-known heroes of this period. But, in order to boost sales on familiar heroes, Marvel decided to include some titles starring Captain America, who wasn't created until 1941.
   In these one-shot editions of Timely Comics, I'm looking forward to new stories, classic reprints and hopefully a revelation or two. With almost a dozen titles to read and review, it looks like it's going to be a busy week.