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| | The Timely Comics Web Page, Prologue |
 | | Timely Publications was not as important, during the Golden Age, as All-American/National (the two companies that eventually became DC Comics), Fawcett, or (arguably) Quality, but they were the source from which Marvel Comics sprang, and so Timely has a place of historical importance. |
 | | And, finally, because comics scholarship is still a very young field, and good, accurate, reliable reference works are few and far between - and those tend not to concentrate on Timely. |
 | | Generally speaking (and this is by no means a hard-and-fast rule) the lag time, in the Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, between creating a comic book, and it reaching the newstand, was approximately 3-4 months, and the comics themselves generally appeared on the newstands around two months before the cover date. |
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