Featuring: Jack Frost
Release: April 20, 1941
Cover: August 1941
10 cents
Story by: Stan Lee
6 pages
A bit of an interlude from our run of old Captain America Comics.
I’ve gotten in the habit of reading these Golden Age superheroes when their namesakes were introduced, but I missed this one. Iron Man fought the new Jack Frost in Tales of Suspense #45. Perhaps that would have been a good time to introduce the Golden Age superhero of the same name. But we didn’t.
I’d say I didn’t have the idea of going back to look at namesakes in my head yet, but that’s clearly not true. Our second post goes back to 1939 to meet the original Human Torch for no reason other than we’d just introduced the new one in Fantastic Four #1. And then a couple posts later, the introduction of the new Gorilla Man gave us all the excuse we needed to meet the original gorilla men. I guess I should admit that I just forgot about Jack Frost.
I thought of him now because we just read Stan Lee’s first Marvel story, and this features Stan’s first superhero co-creation.
Stan created Jack Frost along with the uncredited Charles Nicholas.
Also, I wanted to read the Captain America story from USA Comics #6, which had me anyway looking at the first issue of USA Comics.
And, man if that dude left suspended in a block of ice isn’t good foreshadowing for what’s coming…
Maybe this is a fine time to read this story. Or maybe I should rearrange things to place it back alongside Tales of Suspense #45. Plenty of time to decide that, I guess.
For now, let’s look to the comic.
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