Martin Goodman (publisher)

Martin Goodman
BornMoe Goodman
(1908-01-18)January 18, 1908
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 6, 1992(1992-06-06) (aged 84)
Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
Area(s)Publisher
Notable works
Marvel Comics
Magazine Management Company
Atlas/Seaboard Comics
Spouse(s)Jean Davis
Children3

Martin Goodman (also Morris Goodman;[1] born Moe Goodman;[2] January 18, 1908 – June 6, 1992[2][3]) was an American publisher of pulp magazines, digest sized magazines, paperback books, men's adventure magazines, and comic books, who founded the comics magazine company Timely Comics in 1939. Timely Comics would go on to become Marvel Comics, one of the United States' two largest comic book publishers along with rival DC Comics.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Saunders was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b City of New York, Department of Health Certificate and Record of Birth, January 18, 1908, No. 3268, lists name as "Moe". Bell and Vassallo list his name as "Moses", citing U.S. Census records, Bell, Blake; Vassallo, Michael J. (2013). The Secret History of Marvel Comics. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. pp. 11–12, 102. ISBN 978-1606995525.

    Birth year given as 1910, Brooklyn, in Daniels, Les (1991). Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics'. Harry N. Abrams. p. 17. ISBN 0-8109-3821-9. Bell, Vassallo note (p. 290), "Daniels's book gets several facts [about Goodman] wrong, including Goodman's date of birth, the name of his very first pulp, and the name of his first publishing company." Birth year also appears as 1910 at "Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection, 'Goo' to 'Goodman'". Michigan State University Libraries Special Collections Division. Archived from the original on September 9, 2010. Birthdate is given as January 8, likely a typographical error, at Ro, Ronin (2004). Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution. Bloomsbury.
  3. ^ Martin Goodman Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Social Security Number 087-07-1191, at the Social Security Death Index via GeanealogyBank.com.