In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, since July has a fifth week, we head to July 1964 to see Doctor Doom’s origin revealed for the first time.
In the most recent Look Back, which discussed Captain America losing his own comic book series, as it bizarrely became a horror anthology title (while retaining “Captain America” in the title), I noted that two very important things to keep in mind about the Golden Age of comic books is that everyone was copying everyone else, and everyone liked to spend as little money as possible on their comics.
As I noted in a recent piece about DC’s 80-Page Giants, the concept of an “Annual” magazine was common in England for many years, but it was Archie Comics that brought it to the American comic book market when Archie Comics released its first Annual comic book, titled, appropriately enough, Archie Annual #1, in 1949. At a time when comic books still cost 10 cents per issue, a 25 cent oversize annual magazine was a big deal.
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, since July has a fifth week, we head to July 1964 to see Doctor Doom’s origin revealed for the first time.
In the most recent Look Back, which discussed Captain America losing his own comic book series, as it bizarrely became a horror anthology title (while retaining “Captain America” in the title), I noted that two very important things to keep in mind about the Golden Age of comic books is that everyone was copying everyone else, and everyone liked to spend as little money as possible on their comics.
As I noted in a recent piece about DC’s 80-Page Giants, the concept of an “Annual” magazine was common in England for many years, but it was Archie Comics that brought it to the American comic book market when Archie Comics released its first Annual comic book, titled, appropriately enough, Archie Annual #1, in 1949. At a time when comic books still cost 10 cents per issue, a 25 cent oversize annual magazine was a big deal.
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