Talk:Motion Picture Funnies Weekly

message: This issue had an interview of Bill Everett by Roy Thomas. Frank Torpey, a manager of Funnies Incorporated (Where Everett worked at the time) and a friend of Martin Goodman persuaded him to get into comics. Everett, Burgos and others came up with a package of stories (especially created) for the first issue and Goodman bought them for what would be Marvel Comics #1. Everett says Burgos' Human Torch came first then as a natural adversary to flame, he produced a character at home in water. There is no mention whatsoever of MPFW or of the Sub-Mariner strip being "second hand".(130.255.24.127 (talk) 05:35, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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message: So, the lede says "and only a handful of sample copies of issue #1 were printed", but that seems like original research. Sources in the body say that there are eight or nine existing copies, but I don't think we have anything actually saying only a handful were printed—they could have printed exactly eight, or they could have printed substantially more and then just thrown them away, or shown them to theater operators who threw them away. We have no way of establishing it either way without reliable sourcces. --(UTC) tronvillain (talk) 16:34, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Similarly, neither of the cited sources technically say "unpublished." Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics says "Early in 1939 a bizarre character called The Sub-Mariner, part man and part fish, had been feature in the black-and-white Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, a failed promotional theater giveaway that Funnies, Inc. had produced.", while the Scoop newsletter says "This sort of information would never have been published on the actual giveaways - leading to the theory that Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 may never have made it to the giveaway point" and "Thus, the plan to make Motion Picture Funnies Weekly a regular part of children's movie-going experience may have been foiled before it even took off." But it seems like unjustified synthesis to go from those sources to "was never published." Maybe "presumably never published" or "sources speculate that it was never actually published"? Looking at the indicia of the comic, it says "Published weekly by First Funnies" and "Cover and entire contents copyrighted 1939 by First Funnies Inc." --tronvillain (talk) 16:59, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
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