User blog:Nausiated/Okay I've made up my mind --- 1950's Marvel Here We Come!

So a few weeks back I was contemplating taking a break from my extensive work on Marvel books from the 40s to go and do some work over at the DC Wiki... I gave it some consideration and actually started reading some DC books circa 1935-1937... And I have to tell you it was hard getting into. There is just so much "fluff" in those old DC books (Meaning: comedy strips, or just really boring stories that would only appeal to someone who was living in the 30s) Sifting through all that just to find what is kind-of-sort-of cannon to the DC Universe is hard. Fact of the matter is while I'm trying to puzzle this out, my mind keeps on going back to all the Marvel stuff I still want to do.

Plus I'm still updating issue summaries for 1949 right now, so my head is still rooted in doing Marvel stuff. So I've decided to put off the DC Stuff until a little later and do the comics that Marvel published in the 50's.

But I'm not doing them all. Frankly there is too much "Fluff" in the Atlas Era of comics that just does not interest me. So for those of you who are interested, my battle plan will be tackling the following:


 * 50's Super-Hero Books: Issues of Astonishing, Marvel Boy, Young Men (Vol 2), Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch, Venus


 * Select 50's Era Westerns: Two-Gun Kid, Kid Colt, Black Rider, Apache Kid, Wild Western, or any book that features recurring characters that are part of Marvel continuity.


 * Select 50's Era Sci-Fi/Horror: Just the "popular" books that eventually turned into super-hero comics in the 60s, Strange Tales, Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, Journey into Mystery.


 * Select 50's World War II: Only titles that feature a specific character, like Combat Casey, Combat Kelly etc.


 * Select 50's Crime Comics: Just title character books that are more-or-less part of Marvel continuity. Such as Kent Blake of the Secret Service.

Things I won't be doing:


 * Romance comics
 * Any "true crime" or "true western" stories
 * Random sci-fi/horror titles
 * Commercial Property books (Although I don't recall there being any during the 50s)