So what is this blog, anyway?

First of all, it's a blog written by a person who's never been great at writing introductions to his projects.

Hi, I'm Adamant, welcome to my crazy journey through a significant piece of American comic book history. This is a project I've been toying with the idea of starting up for years now: Reading, detailing and commenting on everything Marvel released during the Golden Age. This isn't some radically new idea; It's been done before, including by this guy and this guy, but what I hope to do differently is to give each story an in-depth look. Everything will be given reasonably detailed summaries, interesting tidbits will be commented on, and I'll give each story and each issue a final evaluation.

Now, I'm perfectly aware of the fact that these comics are rather simplistic in nature and don't exactly hold up to modern material, so I'm not going to review them at length as if they're complex works of art - instead, stories and issues will primarily be judged on how much fun I had reading them. I'll also try my best to put myself in the position of a young reader at the time of publication; Stories about nazi saboteurs infiltrating American troops definitely felt a lot scarier and more real to a reader in the early 40s than they do today, and reading about brave men dressed like flags punching them out while spouting patriotic slogans would've likewise made kids feel more hopeful that things would turn out all right. The nazis weren't comic book villains, they were actual, real enemies of the country, and it's hard to imagine just how scary they must've felt to young kids back then.

We're not going to start with wartime material, though. We're going to start in 1939, with the very first issue of "Marvel Comics", the first comic book published by Timely Publications.