Marvel's 82nd birthday is here and they've got a surprise for you - walkerthaster

Wonder's 82nd birthday is here and they've got a surprise for you

(Image credit: Lovepop/Marvel Comics)

IT may not be famed on your calendar, and Hallmark may non have a specialized notice for it (still), but today is Marvel Comics' birthday. Although the caller name 'Marvel Comics' didn't become a thing until the '60s, its first actual comic, the anthology Marvel Comics #1, hit stands Honourable 31, 1939.

Marvel Comics #1 cover — (Mental image credit: Wonder Comics)

(Healthy, roughly - as distribution then was spotty and getting a intermittent such equally a comic to debut across the continent on the same day all over was too much to require for. But this is the twenty-four hour period Marvel celebrates as the release date).

Piece Marvel is celebrating expectant, round-figure anniversaries this yr of some of its characters, it is as wel planning something today - Revered 31, 2021.

The publisher low-key excited its plans when it recently announced that the approaching Daredevil #36 would embody the last come forth before a hiatus of just about kind. Towards the end of the announcement, Marvel slipped in that news on the future of Daredevil "along with additional new projects" would be announced connected August 31, 2021.

What could these "new projects" glucinium? Well, if they're sledding all-in on 82nd birthdays, several illustrious Wonder characters debuted Eastern Samoa part of that original 1939 Marvel Comics #1 anthology. Some Namor the Submariner and the recently revived-revamped Mask Raider got their come out there, arsenic did the original versions of the Human Blowlamp (the android version, earlier the Grotesque Little Jo version), Angel (before and unconnected to the X-Men reading), and the original version of Ka-Zar from prose stories.

We suspect notwithstandin that they won't make up that typo - at least for all the raw projects. Daredevil writer Chip Zdarsky has already excited some rather special project during his Daredevil hiatus but hasn't given whatever idea if it's Daredevil-related or not.

Stay tuned to Newsarama for that Lunatic news and whatever else Wonder is planning.

And go tell Wonder happy birthday. They expect good for organism 82.

Piece you wait, make sure you've read the best Marvel Comics of all prison term.

Newsarama Sr. Editor Chris Arrant has covered comic book tidings for Newsarama since 2003, and has also longhand for USA Nowadays, Life, Entertainment Each week, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Amusement, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Toon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. Atomic number 2 is the author of the book Innovative: Masters Drop Chiang, atomic number 27-authored Artistic creation of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. Atomic number 2 has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comical Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)