Keith Thomas wrote: Wow there is a lot of action crammed onto those early covers who is the chick with the green hat with wings?

As mentioned above, Golden Girl.  She actually took over Bucky's job at the tail end of the Golden Age run, after Bucky gets shot in #66.  IIRC, Bucky isn't seen again until the 50s revival.

I like the covers of this era.  There's so much happening! 

I hate that those are called "prototypes" by some collectors and the Overstreet price guide, really. Just because a name is reused doesn't make it a prototype, and the "Man in the Bee-Hive" was similar to the first story with Hank Pym, but I also don't think of that as a true prototype. And an ape wearing a mask that looks like Doctor Doom does not make the character a prototype. I also believe Jack Kirby used the same basic design for the mask for a villain in the Two-Gun Kid or Rawhide Kid's comics. I forget which cowboy hero it was.

Now, "Amazing Adult Fantasy" #14 with Tad Carter, that has more merit to me as a prototype. It's not just that Tad is a mutant, but that there is a leader with telepathic powers gathering mutants to form a group of some sort.

Michael Todd wrote: ...So what else are you going to call them...forerunners?...

Nope, not that, either. Hulk, and The Thing, for instance, are different characters that share the same name as a later character. Stan simply reused a name, nothing more.

A prototype is an early design for something that is fleshed out later. Reused names and story ideas are not true prototypes. And many of these "prototypes" that Overstreet lists is realllly stretching things as it is.

A website that has microfiche files from the Golden-Age:

http://www.microcolour.com/mci01.htm

It looks like Marvel and DC titles aren't available anymore, though.

And here's a website devoted to Golden-Age comics:

http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/