| Creator Bill Everett (1917-1973) |
| Profession Writer, Penciller |
| Total Entries 12 |
| Articles Bill Everett – Lambiek Comiclopedia Bill Everett – Wikipedia |
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Bill Everett was a renowned virtuoso of the comic book medium. He did his first comics work in the late thirties for Centaur and soon followed its art director to his new comics packaging shop Funnies Inc., which created complete comics on demand for publishers. Funnies Inc.’s first client was pulp publisher Martin Goodman, who, seeking to duplicate National Periodical Publications’ huge success with its new character Superman, wanted to get into the burgeoning superhero comic book market. The first comic Funnies created for Goodman’s newly titled company Timely was Marvel Comics #1 (October 1939), featuring Carl Burgos’s new character the Human Torch and Bill Everett’s eight-page debut of his aquatic antihero, half man, half sea creature Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. This issue proved to be a knockout, and the Sub-Mariner and Human Torch joined Simon and Kirby’s Captain America as Timely’s three peaks of superherodom, leading to the Golden Age of comics. ~ Drew Friedman’s Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books – Fantagraphics (2014)
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