Talk:Marvel Mystery Comics

Motion Picture Funnies Weekly was found by the same person who "found" (printed) the counterfeit Eerie # 1 (has a smudge on page 18). Five copies of MPFW were "found" and Bob Overstreet who prints the Overstreet Price Guide (for comics) bought an incomplete one for $2000, a fortune in those days and naturally enough has pushed it as genuine ever since. The MPFW turned up just after Bill Everett (who drew the Sub-Mariner story and never, ever mentioned MPFW) died, the one person who could have said if it was fake or real. MPFW was a giveaway by a shoe store so obviously they are not going to spend a fortune on such a thing which needed very expensive underwater effects for it's colouring. The original strip was 8 pages but Goodman (Marvel Comics) could have asked Everett to add another 4 pages as Marvel Comics # 1 was running short. The ending of page 8 of the first story made it evident that there was a lot more to come, the beginning of Namor's fight against the Human Race, not the sort of thing you'd find in a one issue giveaway.

More info, please
The information above about MPFW potentially being a fake is very interesting indeed. I have never seen anything about this not being legit before. Of course, the Overstreet guide has been my main source. Are there any links to discussion on the web that might point to this being a fake? I do remember the first year it came out in the Overstreet guide as a major find. It always did seem a little fishy to me that no one had remembered it before that moment. Leamanc (talk) 00:44, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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Another Missing Piece of the Puzzle
I'm confused. This comic was published in October of 1939. Whiz Comics #2 debuted from Fawcett in December of the same year, featuring Captain Marvel, after Bill Parker and C.C. Beck had thrown around the names "Captain Thunder" and "Captain Marvelous." Was it just a coincidence that both landed on Marvel, or was something else going on?

Klayman55 (talk) 22:17, 30 March 2019 (UTC)Klayman55