Tom Goodman Research Paper

Moe Goodman born 18 January 1908, who is now Martin Goodman has made an impact in not only my life but many others by creating Marvel Comics ™. Goodman was an American publisher who had started off at Pulp Magazines then moved onto paperback books then men's adventure magazines and finally did comic books, which at a later stage then became Marvel Comics. Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York. During the great Depression he had travelled in hobo camps. He then worked at Independent News as a salesman, he's colleagues included two of the three founders of MLJ Comics which is now known as Archie Comics. In 1931, Goodman had co-founded Columbia Publications, this was an early publisher of Pulp Magazines. Goodman had left the company in 1933 to start publishing his own

In 1939, comic books had sky rocketed and it was all that anyone would be talking about, Goodman had followed this trend as well. He then undertook Funnies Inc. in order for them to provide himself with material for his own first comic book magazine. Although Funnies Inc. was a new company whose only previous publication was Motion Pictures Funnies Weekly which had introduced Namor and his supporting cast(April). When Funnies Inc. would provide material to Goodman it was put into Marvel Comics which was number one by October. They had reprinted the first Namor story with additional pages and in colour. It also included the first stories of the Angel, Human Torch, Masked Raider and the comic book version of Ka-Zar. This issue had over eighty thousand copies sold. Goodman then had it reprinted and then eight hundred thousand copies were sold. Goodman had then started to publish more comic books. He had originally bought his material from Funnies Inc. who had still owned the rights for Namor and Human Torch. By the end of 1940 Goodman had bought the rights to those characters. He had then started to hire his own artists and writers. He hired a lot of freelanced artists who once had worked for Funnies