When Does "Marvel Mystery Comics" #2 (1939) Take Place?
"Marvel Mystery Comics" #2 is a superhero comic-book written by Carl Burgos that released October 13th, 1939. So when is "Marvel Mystery Comics" #2 set?
It takes place on the fictional Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
We know this because the main feature in the previous issue, "Marvel Comics" #1 (1939) and the main feature in the next issue, "Marvel Mystery Comics" #3 (1939), both take place in 1939 AD.
1939 AD
We know this because the main feature in the previous issue, "Marvel Comics" #1 (1939) and the main feature in the next issue, "Marvel Mystery Comics" #3 (1939), both take place in 1939 AD.
If one accepts the concept of the sliding timescale of the Marvel Universe, the events of this story might only take place at this point from its own point-of-view and they might move forward in time relative to new stories. Galactus, a god-like character with this fictional universe says in "The Utimates" #5 v2 that 'The present moment--the "now"--hurtles from past to future along a stream of events. And events have weight. Sometimes, the weight is vast--sometimes, so light as to be undetectable. But some events--those with a peculiar, unique gravity-- are caught by the present. Dragged in its wake, like planets about a sun. Always just a handful of years behind...' As Douglas Wolk wrote in 2021, "The big Marvel story is a funhouse-mirror history".
It is a chronologically midway comic in the Marvel Universe multiverse timeline and can be read at its timeline point after the previous issue, "Marvel Comics" #1 (1939).
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--The second back-up story is by Bill Everett.
"Marvel Mystery Comics" #2 also includes the stories:
--The issue's first back-up feature is by Paul Gustavson with Ray Gill.
It takes place on the Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
YEAR AD
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--The second back-up story is by Bill Everett.
It takes place on the Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
--The third is by Al Anders. YEAR AD
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It is a chronologically midway story in the Marvel Universe timeline (a second story to feature Prince Namor/The Sub-Mariner). Note that most scholars recognize this story must take place before the first story in the issue.
It takes place on the Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
18?? AD
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--The fourth short is by Paul Lauretta.
It takes place on the Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
19?? AD
We know this because the opening narration free-floating text declares, "Not so many years ago a bloody conflict was waged in Europe. A conflict in which fifteen million humans perished!!!", referencing World War I as a recently ended war. A perfectly accurate number of deaths during the conflict has never been reached but the most conservative number is 15 million. World War I ended on November 11th, 1918 AD so it must be sometime soon after November of 1918 AD.
--The fifth story is a prose short story titled "Death-Bird Squadron" by David C. Cooke.
It takes place on the Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
YEAR AD
--The final short is by Ben Thompson.
It takes place on the Marvel Universe timeline in the year:
