Journey Into Mystery #83

Cover Date: August 1962 Plot Overview: The Stone Men from Saturn land on Earth. They demonstrate their great power and superior technology and plot to take over the planet. A local fisherman spots them and reports this back at town. Dr. Don Blake overhears this story and decides to investigate...

Incredible Hulk #2

Cover Date: July 1962 Plot Overview: The Hulk happens upon a random town but Rick manages to divert his attention at the last moment. The origin of the Hulk is recapped. Strange aliens have arrived at earth. They are the Toad Men and they want to capture the smartest man on Earth to determine...

Fantastic Four #5

Cover Date: July 1962Plot Overview: The Human Torch and Thing argue as the issue starts. Suddenly a net covers the FF's HQ and a man announces himself as Dr. Doom. Reed recognizes the voice and recalls going to college with Doom and how he was horribly disfigured in a lab accident.Doom demands Sue...

Incredible Hulk #1

Cover Date: May 1962 Plot Overview: Dr. Bruce Banner and the U.S. military are preparing to test his creation the gamma bomb. General Ross and his daughter Betty stop by and Ross makes his disdain for Banner known. Right before the bomb is about to go off, a teenager appears in the testing area....

Fantastic Four #4

Cover Date: May 1962Plot Overview: The issue starts off by recapping the Human Torch leaving the team. Reed blames the Thing for driving him off. They decide to search for the Human Torch and split up in the Fantasticar. Reed and Sue seach with little success but the Thing finds the Torch easily....

Fantastic Four #3

Cover Date: March 1962Plot Overview: The issue opens with the Fantastic Four taking in a magic show. The magician calls himself the Miracle Man and uses his powers to show up the Fantastic Four. Reed Richards refers to him as an unbeatable opponent. The scene shifts to the Miracle Man planning to...

Tales to Astonish #27

Cover Date: January 1962Plot Overview: Scientist Henry Pym has discovered a serum that can shrink items and an antidote that returns them to normal size. Pym tries the serum on himself and panics as he realizes he's left the antidote on a window sill.Pym retreats to the backyard where a group of ants...

Fantastic Four #2

Cover Date: January 1962Plot Overview: Each member of the Fantastic Four commits a very public crime. The FF gather together and reveal themselves to be Skrulls. Skrulls are a shape shifting race of aliens that want to conquer the world. Their plot is to turn the public against the FF and once...

Fantastic Four #1

Cover Date: November 1961Plot Overview: A mysterious man stands in a window and fires a flare gun into the air. The flare reads Fantastic Four. A woman sees the signal and turns invisible and tries to catch a cab. The cab driver freaks out and drives away. A man in a trench coat sees the signal...

Marvel Comics a Brief History

First and foremost, Marvel Comics was previously known as Timely Publications. Timely came about when Martin Goodman decided to expand into the new and hot comic book industry in the 1930s. In October of 1939 Timely published Marvel Comics #1. This issue introduced the Human Torch and Namor the Sub-Mariner. Timely also later introduced Captain America.Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner...

Welcome to the Mighty Marvel Reading Project

The purpose of this blog is reading Marvel from the very start. I'm going to start with Fantastic Four #1 and read through the Marvel universe in chronological order. If you follow this blog you'll get to see how Marvel developed into the comic book company it is today.Stay tuned. I'll be giving you a little history on Marvel up until Fantastic Four debuting in 1961.I also have a one rule for myself....