Exciting Comics

X-1 In dark & lite green hit the racks in July 1963. Note the 7-2 arrival date on the lite green copy. Did you know X-1 has 9 first appearances?

1. The X-men team
2. Magneto
3. Professor X
4. Cyclops
5. Iceman
6. Beast
7. Angel
8. & 9. Jean Grey as Marvel Girl and who will later become Phoenix

X-1 is always a hot book, but it will get hotter because Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox allows Marvel Studios to regain the rights to the X-Men.

Background – To avoid bankruptcy in the 80's Marvel Studios sold their rights to the X-Men as well as other key properties. Even so, Marvel went on to make, the most successful hero genre films and they did this with their remaining less popular characters like Iron Man.

In 2009 Disney acquired Marvel Studios and their films have become the most profitable theatrical franchise in history.

If only Disney/Marvel could get the characters they sold back in the 80's ... and then it happened. In 2019 Disney/Marvel reacquired from 21st Century Fox - the rights to the X-Men and other popular characters such as the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer .

The combination of the best movie studio having access to the best characters is a win-win!

PS - Avengers 1 hit the stands at the same time as X-1.

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Exciting Comics 41 - The Black Terror is always exciting, but Schomburg really outdid himself this time with an outrageous WW2 Japanese Kamikaze cover.

Schomburg drew another WW2 Black Terror Japanese plane cover. Do you know what it is? Comments welcomed and win yourself a no-prize!

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Miss Fury beat Wonder Woman to the punch by six months (April 1941) in a comic strip created by FEMALE artist June Tarpé Mills. Miss Fury is the first female hero created and promoted by a woman.

She had no innate superpowers, but gained increased strength and speed when she put on her BLACK PANTHER suit that was used by an African witch doctor in Voodoo ceremonies.

Wait what? Wouldn't that make Miss Fury the first Black Panther in the Marvel Universe? Yes, she was the first in costume - now check out Centaur Comics Stars & Stripes 3 for the first use of the name Black Panther.

Miss Fury #2 is a Classic Golden Age Cover that continues to fly under the radar even though it shares iconic cover elements with books such as Suspense #3 and Detective #31. Notice the color palatte, night scene, full moon, hooded N**i bad guys, gorgeous woman, etc.

Miss Fury might be the most famous superhero you've never heard of.... During WW2, she graced the nose of four bombers and her cat, Perri-Purr, sailed on the Admiral's Flagship for the Pacific Fleet. She was also the unofficial mascot for the Allied troops. "Miss Fury was syndicated in 100 newspapers running from '41 to '51.

Timely (Marvel Comics) was selling a million copies an issue ... but so very few copies remain.

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