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Marvel Comics Founder Narrowly Escaped Death in the Hindenberg

If a man named Martin Goodman had stuck to his original travel plans in 1937, Marvel Comics may have never existed.

That year, Goodman was on his honeymoon in Europe with his wife. For their return leg to the US, Goodman had planned to ride the exciting new Hindenburg airship, but Goodman was late to buy tickets and couldn’t secure two seats next to each other, so they took a plane instead. Of course, the Hindenburg famously crashed, killing 35 of the 97 people onboard.

Martin Goodman however, made it back from his honeymoon and went on to find Timely Comics later that year, which became Atlas Comics in 1951 and, finally, Marvel Comics in 1961.

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