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Timely Comics Trademark Application and Registration for "Marvel Boy" (September 7, 1940)....
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Timely Comics Trademark Application and Registration for "Marvel Boy" (September 7, 1940). The first page shows that the United States Patent Office has granted registration of a trademark to "Timely Comics Inc., its successors or assigns." The second is the application for a trademark for the title for "the title for a comic strip series," "Marvel Boy." Furthermore the application also says that "The trade-mark has been continuously used and applied to said comic strip series in [Daring Mystery Comics] since the date of first publication, to wit: July 5, 1940." These two pages and a third blank page are ribbon-bound and measure 8" by 12".The original Marvel Boy character appeared in exactly two comic books: Daring Mystery #6 (cover-dated 9/40) and U.S.A. Comics #7 (3/43), the first of which had already appeared when this application was filed. Oddly enough, while Marvel Boy got his own logo on the cover of that Daring Mystery, the logo that appears in this application is the one used on the first interior page of that issue. Different characters would later receive the name Marvel Boy, and it's interesting to note that the logo of the 1950 series has a similar "whoosh" effect to that seen here.
It's probably fair to surmise that the fact that a "Captain Marvel" was finding great success over at Fawcett at the time made Timely, publisher of Marvel Mystery, even more determined to stake claim to variations on the name.
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2009 November Signature Comics & Comic Art Auction #7013 (go to Auction Home page)
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