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Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939, publishing comic books under the imprint Timely Comics. Goodman, a pulp magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging-and by then already highly popular-new medium of comic books.
Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, is adopted. At least, that's the huge revelation in "Iron Man #17," a comic book published by Marvel Comics that hits comic stores Wednesday (October 23), as revealed in a release from the Associated Press.
