Angel (Timely Comics)

The Angel
Story splash from Sub-Mariner Comics #1 Art by Paul Gustavson
Publication information
Publisher	Timely Comics (Marvel Comics)
First appearance	Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939)
Created by	Paul Gustavson (artist) Writer unconfirmed
In-story information
Alter ego	Thomas Halloway
Team affiliations	All-Winners Squad V-Battalion Scourges of the Underworld
Abilities	Excellent acrobat and hand to hand combatant Accomplished disguise artist, occult scholar and pilot Skilled detective Flight via mystic cape Use of knives and other weapons

The Angel (Thomas Halloway, often shortened to Tom Halloway) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist Paul Gustavson and an unconfirmed writer during the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Angel first appeared in Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first publication of Marvel Comics' predecessor, Timely Comics.

The Angel is a non-superpowered detective who nonetheless wore a superhero costume.

Created by artist Paul Gustavson and written either by him or by Ray Gill or another writer, the Angel debuted in Timely Comics' Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939). The Angel was the next-most-popular Timely character after the "big three" of the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner and Captain America, with more than 100 Golden Age appearances — starting in that initial Marvel title (which changed its name to Marvel Mystery Comics with issue #2), up through #79 (Dec. 1946); as the sole backup feature in Sub-Mariner Comics #1-21 (Spring 1941 - Fall 1946); and in occasional appearances in All Winners Comics (#1, Summer 1941), The Human Torch (#5[a], Summer 1941), Mystic Comics (vol. 2, #1-3, Oct.-Winter 1944), Daring Comics (#10, Winter 1944-45).

A simulacrum of the Angel was temporarily created from the mind of Rick Jones, along with those of the Blazing Skull, the Fin, the Patriot, and the Golden Age Vision, to aid the superhero team the Avengers during the Kree-Skrull War, in The Avengers #97 (March 1972).