- Micrographia, by Robert Hooke (1665). In addition to Hooke's observations, Micrographia is known for its spectacular copperplate engravings of the miniature world, particularly its fold-out plates of insects. The engraving of the louse in particular folds out to four times the size of the book.n fact, it was Hooke who coined the term cells: the boxlike cells of cork reminded him of the cells of a monastery. Hooke also reported seeing similar structures in wood and in other plants. Hooke also famously described a fly's eye.
If you answered that it's from the title of the first comic book they published, you would be only partly right. Martin Goodman did indeed publish his first comic book in 1939 and it was called Marvel Comics, changed to Marvel Mystery Comics for its second issue. The book featured what would become two of the company's most iconic characters of the 1940s, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.
While Marvel's Man-Thing appears to have had a two month edge on DC, first appearing in a May 1971 anthology called Savage Tales #1, Mark Engblom over at Comic Coverage argues that, in the world of comic publishing, this doesn't mean all that much.