Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Timely confidential: when the golden age of comic books was young, paperback/michael j. vassallo

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Description One day in 1942, a kid who liked to draw responded to an advertisement in the New York Times.

He carried his portfolio to a young, upstart publishing company, landing a job on the spot.

That company would become Marvel Comics .

Allen Bellman participated in the early years of popular characters like Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner.

One day he left the comics field and never looked back.

Five decades later, an intrepid Golden Age comic book collector located him.

Allen received a hero's welcome from comic book historians, and now appears at conventions nationwide, proclaiming I was there Herewith, his circuitous journey back to comics .

In the pages of Timely Confidential, Allen recalls growing up in Brooklyn, and commuting to the Mc Graw-Hill building (and later the Empire State Building) every morning to work at Timely Comics; friction between different divisions among artists and writers; brushes with celebrities; Martin Goodman's failed expansion into Broadway plays; his departure from the comic industry in the 1950s; a second career as a graphic designer and photographer; a move from the New York City area, capital of publishing worldwide, to the Florida tropics; his return to the world of comic book fandom nearly six decades after leaving the field.