most popular Marvel of the 1960's

**Karen El** · 02-08-2008, 11:52 AM

Which would you guess? No fair looking it up.

**The Ray** · 02-08-2008, 11:56 AM

Spider-Man.

**The Tyrant Virus** · 02-08-2008, 12:00 PM

Fantastic Four? I dunno. Weren't they at the top at one point? Considering I wasn't even in the world till '82, I have no clue. My guess would be FF or Spidey.

**Jack Zodiac** · 02-08-2008, 12:05 PM

I'm gonna guess Fantastic Four.

**Bo Bo** · 02-08-2008, 12:06 PM

I voted for Millie the model, cause I have no idea what that's about, but it seems so far off from the other choices, I just had to pick it.

**Major Comma** · 02-08-2008, 12:16 PM

Fantastic Four.

**stealthwise** · 02-08-2008, 12:42 PM

Spider-Man. Stan Lee even said that at one point, Spidey could have been the hugest brand in the world, but Lee wanted to focus on the Marvel line as a whole, so held back on the Spider-promotion.

Millie the Model was a pretty popular Betty-and-Veronica type book at one point, if I recall though.

**Libaax** · 02-08-2008, 12:51 PM

I geuss FF too since i know marvel history.

FF was earlier than spidey and they were bigger at first.

**Tommy** · 02-08-2008, 12:59 PM

My guess from reading this is that we are all suposed to be shocked when it is revealed that Millie the Model is the most popular Marvel comic of the 1960's. (Though I don't know if it was or not.)

Of course if that is the point then this has been set up very badly.

**Karen El** · 02-08-2008, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by Tommy

My guess from reading this is that we are all suposed to be shocked when it is revealed that Millie the Model is the most popular Marvel comic of the 1960's. (Though I don't know if it was or not.)

Of course if that is the point then this has been set up very badly.

Oh, way to suck the fun out of everything, Mister Grumpy.

I was prompted by the thread about comics in the '50's to think about Marvel's non-superhero comics in the early days, but the only ones I could think of were Sgt. Fury (War) and Millie (romance/humour). But yeah, Millie was way more successful than any of their superhero titles during the sixties.

**stealthwise** · 02-08-2008, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Karen El

Oh, way to suck the fun out of everything, Mister Grumpy.

I was prompted by the thread about comics in the '50's to think about Marvel's non-superhero comics in the early days, but the only ones I could think of were Sgt. Fury (War) and Millie (romance/humour). But yeah, Millie was way more successful than any of their superhero titles during the sixties.

In terms of sales figures? Because that's fair enough, although it discounts the actual "household name" factor of Spider-Man, along with the tv shows and the merchandise so popular in the 60s.

**Jack Zodiac** · 02-08-2008, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by Karen El

Oh, way to suck the fun out of everything, Mister Grumpy.

I was prompted by the thread about comics in the '50's to think about Marvel's non-superhero comics in the early days, but the only ones I could think of were Sgt. Fury (War) and Millie (romance/humour). But yeah, Millie was way more successful than any of their superhero titles during the sixties.

Not that I don't believe it, but do you have any, like... proof?

**The Ray** · 02-08-2008, 01:47 PM

She has hyperbole and that's all the proof you need in comics.

**Karen El** · 02-08-2008, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Zodiac

Not that I don't believe it, but do you have any, like... proof?

I can't give you actual sales figures, but apart from her main title, which ran for 28 years between 1945 and 1973, during the sixties she had one of the first Marvel annuals, ten of them between 62 and 71, also Life with Millie/Modelling with Millie (54 issues), Mad About Millie (17 issues), and even a spin off featuring her rival Chilli ran for 26 issues.

At a time when Marvel superheroes were being squeezed two to a book because of distribution limitations, Millie was getting two all to herself.

So where's my Essential Millie?!? Where????