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Daring Mystery Comics #6
Daring Mystery Comics (1940-1942) #6
The first appearance of a Marvel Golden Age legend -- MARVEL BOY, directly from the minds of Marvel magnates Joe Simon and Jack Kirby!
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67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2018
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Joe Simon
358 books25 followersJoseph Henry "Joe" Simon (born Hymie Simon) was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
With his partner, artist Jack Kirby, he co-created Captain America, one of comics' most enduring superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy, and co-created the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter. Simon & Kirby creations for other comics publishers include Boys' Ranch, Fighting American and the Fly. In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine Sick in 1960, remaining with it for a decade. He briefly returned to DC Comics in the 1970s.
Simon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.
With his partner, artist Jack Kirby, he co-created Captain America, one of comics' most enduring superheroes, and the team worked extensively on such features at DC Comics as the 1940s Sandman and Sandy the Golden Boy, and co-created the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter. Simon & Kirby creations for other comics publishers include Boys' Ranch, Fighting American and the Fly. In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics. Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine Sick in 1960, remaining with it for a decade. He briefly returned to DC Comics in the 1970s.
Simon was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.
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June 17, 2022
We haven't gotten a ton of new guys for awhile, and here they are! These new guys reign from "don't really make sense" to "stupid, but cool". The action and storytelling his been getting slightly better every month these came out, but some artists really understood 'comics' more than others.
Marvel Boy
So hold up, I'm hearing that Hercules was born in "ancient, mysterious Egypt" from reincarnation, then when Mr. Hercules dies (in the near modern era?) he ascends to Valhalla? I think we got three different mythologies there, guys. Then Hercules, is once again reincarnated into a baby to grow up hyper strong to stop Nazi invaders in America and becomes Marvel Boy! I'm not sure why not just Hercules but meh. This was pretty fun and action packed. Good start.
The Fiery Mask
God Fiery Mask is so weird. In this issue a group of bad guys is going around planting babies that sound and cry like adult men in people's houses. These babies will transform into demons to murder their adopted parents, during one transformation the Mask follows the demon to his home realm of Hades! (wack) Where he proceeds to beat the piss outta a bunch of demons until Satan (?) or Hades himself (?) blasts that man straight outta he'll. Like I said. Weird.
Stuporman
A humorous Superman type, Stuporman is an absolute idiot with the strength of at least 10 idiots and intelligence to match. Definitely not all the jokes hit, but I was more into this than I figured I'd be.
The Flying Flame
While I'm not into war stories, I feel like these airplane dogfighting stories just barely get the pass. Pilots had to do some crazy shit back then honestly and I think their life-spans were super short. It makes SO much sense why there are so many fighter pilot stories in these because they needed new blood pilots who thought these comics were cool. I really liked The Flying Flames enemy in this, The Black Ace. His black cat-suit with death heads ALL over it with a monocle and twisty moustache is really funny.
The Falcon
This boy got a new suit! And it looks Stuuuuupid. Here our friend District Attorney takes down a few more lawless criminals. Not much to say.
Monako: Prince of Magic
Monako has his first big magic show, only to be interrupted by some criminals after they drug someone on a balcony. I don't remember why they did that, but Monako follows them out to a mansion in the woods and changes a pit of snakes into a pit of puppy to protect a hostage. I like this guys silly inconsistent magic powers.
Dynaman
I may just now be discovering this but am I supposed to be reading these from a biblical creationist point of view? Why would there be 10 foot tall cavemen fighting an Egyptian pharoahs army in an attempt to take over, while using stone cannons strapped onto a brontosaurus. Dynaman himself is from a sunken, Atlantis-esque lost city of the past that only has super-strong, super-smart men who, well.. with that description this shoulda been the gayest comic so far lol. Anyway, Dynaman pledges himself to protect the Egyptian pharoahs throne from would be dictators. Like cavemen. But not a pharaoh, they're definitely not dictator-ey.
Tigerman
Another of Marvels Tarzan Types, Tigerman stands alongside Ka-Zar and Trojak. However, believe it or not, as the one guy that's essentially unnamed and without backstory, Tigerman sucks. In this we're avoiding "uncivilized pygmys" even though they LITERALLY CREATED A FLYING CANOE OUT OF TECHNOLOGY. How are they uncivilized??? Also Tigerman talks like Grimlock from the Transformers and is supposed to be the smartest in the comic. Very bad stuff to close this comic out!
Marvel Boy
So hold up, I'm hearing that Hercules was born in "ancient, mysterious Egypt" from reincarnation, then when Mr. Hercules dies (in the near modern era?) he ascends to Valhalla? I think we got three different mythologies there, guys. Then Hercules, is once again reincarnated into a baby to grow up hyper strong to stop Nazi invaders in America and becomes Marvel Boy! I'm not sure why not just Hercules but meh. This was pretty fun and action packed. Good start.
The Fiery Mask
God Fiery Mask is so weird. In this issue a group of bad guys is going around planting babies that sound and cry like adult men in people's houses. These babies will transform into demons to murder their adopted parents, during one transformation the Mask follows the demon to his home realm of Hades! (wack) Where he proceeds to beat the piss outta a bunch of demons until Satan (?) or Hades himself (?) blasts that man straight outta he'll. Like I said. Weird.
Stuporman
A humorous Superman type, Stuporman is an absolute idiot with the strength of at least 10 idiots and intelligence to match. Definitely not all the jokes hit, but I was more into this than I figured I'd be.
The Flying Flame
While I'm not into war stories, I feel like these airplane dogfighting stories just barely get the pass. Pilots had to do some crazy shit back then honestly and I think their life-spans were super short. It makes SO much sense why there are so many fighter pilot stories in these because they needed new blood pilots who thought these comics were cool. I really liked The Flying Flames enemy in this, The Black Ace. His black cat-suit with death heads ALL over it with a monocle and twisty moustache is really funny.
The Falcon
This boy got a new suit! And it looks Stuuuuupid. Here our friend District Attorney takes down a few more lawless criminals. Not much to say.
Monako: Prince of Magic
Monako has his first big magic show, only to be interrupted by some criminals after they drug someone on a balcony. I don't remember why they did that, but Monako follows them out to a mansion in the woods and changes a pit of snakes into a pit of puppy to protect a hostage. I like this guys silly inconsistent magic powers.
Dynaman
I may just now be discovering this but am I supposed to be reading these from a biblical creationist point of view? Why would there be 10 foot tall cavemen fighting an Egyptian pharoahs army in an attempt to take over, while using stone cannons strapped onto a brontosaurus. Dynaman himself is from a sunken, Atlantis-esque lost city of the past that only has super-strong, super-smart men who, well.. with that description this shoulda been the gayest comic so far lol. Anyway, Dynaman pledges himself to protect the Egyptian pharoahs throne from would be dictators. Like cavemen. But not a pharaoh, they're definitely not dictator-ey.
Tigerman
Another of Marvels Tarzan Types, Tigerman stands alongside Ka-Zar and Trojak. However, believe it or not, as the one guy that's essentially unnamed and without backstory, Tigerman sucks. In this we're avoiding "uncivilized pygmys" even though they LITERALLY CREATED A FLYING CANOE OUT OF TECHNOLOGY. How are they uncivilized??? Also Tigerman talks like Grimlock from the Transformers and is supposed to be the smartest in the comic. Very bad stuff to close this comic out!
June 28, 2023
A pretty goofy character by the team that would soon create Captain America.
September 26, 2025
The worst of the series. K-4 may not be what I’m into, but it was genuinely good. His story seems to have been replaced by Flying Flame, this time a pilot whose gimmick is being ginger?
We now have Marvel Boy, whose mythology is absolutely all over the place, being Hercules, but from Egypt and went to Valhalla? At least the mishmash made this interesting. Even more all over the place is Dynaman. From some ancient technological land, where he was still superhuman, that sank, went to Egypt, where everyone is white (the pharaoh is “Khufor”, which I assume is meant to be Khufu? Around 2500BC) and they seem to be fighting Neanderthals with dinosaurs and monsters? Ironically, Dynaman is the least weird part of this story.
Alas, Monako. Look how they massacred my boy. Every issue has been great for him, being off the wall magic does stuff. But this one was not very interesting by comparison, perhaps the staff knew this comic wasn’t going to last much longer. Falcon returns, with an equally boring story. Tigerman may actually be Marvel’s first non-white hero? Unfortunately, his story is just more of the same. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t very good either.
Stuporman… well, there were at least a couple of gags that managed to draw a smirk from me.
We now have Marvel Boy, whose mythology is absolutely all over the place, being Hercules, but from Egypt and went to Valhalla? At least the mishmash made this interesting. Even more all over the place is Dynaman. From some ancient technological land, where he was still superhuman, that sank, went to Egypt, where everyone is white (the pharaoh is “Khufor”, which I assume is meant to be Khufu? Around 2500BC) and they seem to be fighting Neanderthals with dinosaurs and monsters? Ironically, Dynaman is the least weird part of this story.
Alas, Monako. Look how they massacred my boy. Every issue has been great for him, being off the wall magic does stuff. But this one was not very interesting by comparison, perhaps the staff knew this comic wasn’t going to last much longer. Falcon returns, with an equally boring story. Tigerman may actually be Marvel’s first non-white hero? Unfortunately, his story is just more of the same. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t very good either.
Stuporman… well, there were at least a couple of gags that managed to draw a smirk from me.
September 18, 2019
Refreshing start to the comic. New ideas and approaches. However as it nears the end, the quality seems to revert to boredom.
Tigerman is baffling. It’s outdated where our protagonist is a very tanned man in a turban but how is still referred to as “white man”. His speech is similar to what you can imagine is a caveman speak. The natives, who are black, seemed to always be portrayed as slaves or wild and unruly. In this case they like to make “white people” slaves. Sigh. Then out comes technology from the future which doesn’t really make sense. The father is visibly fit and frowns when the daughter isn’t. The story of Tigerman has spoilt what could have been the first 4 star I would have given to these early year comics.
Tigerman is baffling. It’s outdated where our protagonist is a very tanned man in a turban but how is still referred to as “white man”. His speech is similar to what you can imagine is a caveman speak. The natives, who are black, seemed to always be portrayed as slaves or wild and unruly. In this case they like to make “white people” slaves. Sigh. Then out comes technology from the future which doesn’t really make sense. The father is visibly fit and frowns when the daughter isn’t. The story of Tigerman has spoilt what could have been the first 4 star I would have given to these early year comics.
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December 17, 2024
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"You shall be the marvel of your age – the boy with the strength of twenty men –– The Marvel Boy."
I noticed a writing style development in Marvel Boy. Hopefully, it carries on to the next issue because I am still extremely indifferent towards the majority of the stories.
"You shall be the marvel of your age – the boy with the strength of twenty men –– The Marvel Boy."
I noticed a writing style development in Marvel Boy. Hopefully, it carries on to the next issue because I am still extremely indifferent towards the majority of the stories.
March 7, 2020
Stuporman made this volume.. Hilarious!!
October 19, 2022
The King Kirby has arrived! The Firey Mask was so much fun this issue. Everything else was standard
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