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Top-20 Timely Books
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Wayne-Tec

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Hi guys,

I was wondering what guys consider to be the top Timely books?

For many, Marvel #1 and Cap #1 would be the Top-2.

After that, Cap #3, Marvel #9, Cap #2, Marvel #4, Sub-Mariner #1, Human Torch #2 (#1) all come to mind.

I’d be interested in seeing how others rank them. :popcorn:

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Primetime

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Here's my somewhat biased top 20 (give or take) in alphabetical order. I won't bother ranking them. Just know that Marvel Comics 1 is at the top of the list. 

All Select 1

All Select 2

All Winners 19

Cap 1

Cap 2

Cap 3

Daring Mystery 1

Daring Mystery 4

Human Torch 2(1)

Human Torch 8

Marvel Comics 1 (Greatest comic book ever published)

Marvel Mystery 4

Marvel Mystery 5

Marvel Mystery 9

MPFW 1 (not a Timely, but it makes my list nonetheless for an obvious reason)

Mystic 4

Red Raven 1

Sub-Mariner 1

USA 7

USA 8

 

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42 minutes ago, Primetime said:

Here's my somewhat biased top 20 (give or take) in alphabetical order. I won't bother ranking them. Just know that Marvel Comics 1 is at the top of the list. 

All Select 1

All Select 2

All Winners 19

Cap 1

Cap 2

Cap 3

Daring Mystery 1

Daring Mystery 4

Human Torch 2(1)

Human Torch 8

Marvel Comics 1 (Greatest comic book ever published)

Marvel Mystery 4

Marvel Mystery 5

Marvel Mystery 9

MPFW 1 (not a Timely, but it makes my list nonetheless for an obvious reason)

Mystic 4

Red Raven 1

Sub-Mariner 1

USA 7

USA 8

 

All Select 01

All Select 02

All Select 11

All Winners 08

Cap 01

Cap 02

Cap 03

Cap 46

Daring Mystery 01

Human Torch 12

Marvel 01

Marvel 02

Marvel 04

Marvel 05

Marvel 09

Marvel 46

Marvel 82

Mystic 06

Red Raven 01

Sub Mariner 01

USA 07

 

 

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Cat-Man_America

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Entirely subjective, but ten of the twenty I'd include in a list of top Timely books...

All Winners 19 & 21 (first & last All Winners Squad issues, the only two)

Red Raven 1 (rare one shot S&K project)

Human Torch 5 (60 page Torch/Subby battle issue with classic Schomburg cover)

Captain America 1, 2 & 3 (origin with first Red Skull, first round shield and Schomburg Red Skull cover; S&K)

Marvel Comics 1 (origins, first Marvel comic)

Marvel Mystery 2 (first WWII nazi combat and title)

Marvel Mystery 3 (first familiar masthead, first Schomburg MM cover)

I'll add ten more in a second post. (thumbsu

 

 

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Cat-Man_America

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OK, here’s the second ten, lots of off the wall, subjective choices in this one....

Mystic 1 (first series, pulp swipe cover by Alex Schomburg; would be swiped again by Syd Shores for Mystic 2nd series)

Mystic Vol. 2  #2 (classic Nazi giant skeletal mad Doctor harassing women on tandem slabs with hypodermic needle)

Marvel Mystery 8, 9, & 10  (Torch/Subby battle opens at the end of 7 and continues through 11 before moving over to HT Comics)

Marvel Mystery 38 (Torch battles garish underworld creatures led by robed klansman while rescuing distressed damsel dangling over acid)

 Marvel Mystery 46 (colander torture themed classic cover featuring green Hitler with an ear-worm leading subterranean zombies)

Marvel Mystery 66 (final WWII issue with Imperial Japanese air force's last ditch effort to fly a death ray over NYC)

Daring Mystery 1 (Sci-fi cover with babe tied to front fender of a Newmobile; first Schomburg cover for Timely)

Captain America’s Weird Tales #74 (Cap battles the Red Skull in purgatory; devil of a series ender)

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KirbyJack

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Marvel 1

Captain America 1

Marvel 9

Sub Mariner 1

Human Torch 1

Daring Mystery 1

Marvel 2

All Winners 1

All Select 1

Mystic 1

Red Raven 1

USA 1

Captain America 2

Captain America 3

Marvel 8

Human Torch 5

Marvel 5

Young Allies 1

Marvel annual 1

Tough Kid Squad 1

How’s that for old school?

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No particular order.

Marvel Comics 1

Marvel Mystery Comics 4

Marvel Mystery Comics 8, Marvel Mystery Comics 9, Marvel Mystery Comics 10 (One story, one slot) lol

Captain America Comics 1

Captain America Comics 3

Captain America Comics 16

Captain America Comics 37

Captain America Comics 46

Sub-Mariner Comics 1

Human Torch Comics 1

Human Torch Comics 5

Human Torch Comics 12

Daring Mystery Comics 1

Mystic Vol. 2  #2

All Winners Comics 1

All Select Comics 1

All Select Comics 11

Young Allies Comics 1

USA Comics 7

USA Comics 8

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It is interesting that so many folks have USA 7 on their list, some even have USA 8, but no one has USA 6. Being the first issue in which Cap is the headliner, it should be much more significant. But as cool as the cover of #6 is, Schomburg didn't do the art so it gets overlooked on a lot of these surveys.

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26 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

It is interesting that so many folks have USA 7 on their list, some even have USA 8, but no one has USA 6. Being the first issue in which Cap is the headliner, it should be much more significant. But as cool as the cover of #6 is, Schomburg didn't do the art so it gets overlooked on a lot of these surveys.

That because USA 7 is USA 7

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1 hour ago, MrBedrock said:

It is interesting that so many folks have USA 7 on their list, some even have USA 8, but no one has USA 6. Being the first issue in which Cap is the headliner, it should be much more significant. But as cool as the cover of #6 is, Schomburg didn't do the art so it gets overlooked on a lot of these surveys.

I left 10 out, but I have always liked the 8-7-10 progression that their covers show. I will say that I included 3 books on my list because I felt they deserved to be on the list and not because I necessarily like them. 

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22 hours ago, MrBedrock said:

It is interesting that so many folks have USA 7 on their list, some even have USA 8, but no one has USA 6. Being the first issue in which Cap is the headliner, it should be much more significant. But as cool as the cover of #6 is, Schomburg didn't do the art so it gets overlooked on a lot of these surveys.

Schomburg drew the cover to #6, he even signed it. I get that #7 is the more iconic cover, though #6 has a prime example of one of Schomburg's elaborate torture machines on it.

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1 hour ago, rjpb said:
23 hours ago, MrBedrock said:

It is interesting that so many folks have USA 7 on their list, some even have USA 8, but no one has USA 6. Being the first issue in which Cap is the headliner, it should be much more significant. But as cool as the cover of #6 is, Schomburg didn't do the art so it gets overlooked on a lot of these surveys.

Schomburg drew the cover to #6, he even signed it. I get that #7 is the more iconic cover, though #6 has a prime example of one of Schomburg's elaborate torture machines on it.

He didn't do all of it. Someone obviously changed Caps head.

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Cat-Man_America

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1 hour ago, rjpb said:

Schomburg drew the cover to #6, he even signed it. I get that #7 is the more iconic cover, though #6 has a prime example of one of Schomburg's elaborate torture machines on it.

Good catch! I actually had to go back and look for the signature, ...but it’s there! (thumbsu

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Cat-Man_America

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4 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

He didn't do all of it. Someone obviously changed Caps head.

I doubt that, ...Cap usually has a mind of his own! (:

Seriously, I don’t believe Alex would have signed it unless he’d done the entire piece.  Just my opinion, given the guy’s reputation.  That said, that cover does have elements that suggest both Shores and Kirby’s influence.

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52 minutes ago, MrBedrock said:

He didn't do all of it. Someone obviously changed Caps head.

Yeah, Cap's head looks more like Avison (dimpled chin, double lined cheek), but the rest looks all Schomburg ( though GCD speculates Syd Shores on inks).

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Marvel Mystery 9

Marvel Comics 1

Captain America 1

Marvel Mystery 7

Marvel Mystery 19

Captain America's Weird Tales 74

Marvel Mystery 4

Captain America 3

Human Torch 6

Marvel Mystery 51

 

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