…so ill-used in such a rotten-plot story? The Marvel Comics of the 1980’s adds this: “Shooter in the Marvel Age article vehemently denies stalling the project to remove Perez from the book.” Stalling the project to remove Pérez from the book?! Of course I denied it vehemently. It’s baloney. That…
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…all creators. If I’d had my way, I would have made Marvel Comic Book Creator Heaven in a heartbeat. However, I knew that the likelihood of my being able to totally revolutionize and restructure Marvel’s business relationship with its artists and writers during my first few months in office was…
…the Marvel management), both Marvel and DC had instituted art return policies. Marvel’s, set up by Roy Thomas, gave writers a share of the pages. Go figure. As soon as I could, I changed that — one reason why a few writers like Moench and Thomas didn’t like me. Tough….
…on Massarky’s license to mount the show—so he went back to Marvel seeking an extension. Somebody had wised up, and Marvel demanded millions for an extension. Massarky went back to Marvel with the power people of MCA and Radio City at his side to convince Marvel that, if they were…
Back Story At some point while Roy Thomas was Editor in Chief Marvel Comics began giving original artwork to the creative people who had participated in the creation of the pages. That would have been in 1973 or thereabouts. I wasn’t there. I started at Marvel Comics as associate editor…
In the mid-1960’s, Mort Weisinger explained newsstand distribution to me. A publisher contracted with a National Distributor. DC Comics used Independent News, which was owned by the same parent company, National Periodical Publications. Through some strange circumstances I’ll explain later, Independent News also was Marvel Comics’ distributor.The National Distributor was…
…working on developing a book that would feature one-shot stories by outstanding creators, working title Marvel Universe. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, the title proposed by Gruenwald, I think, seemed perfect for the series, so I pried the words “Marvel Universe” away from Milgrom. As I recall, he…
…it somehow. Duffy invited me to come up to New York and talk to the editors at Marvel about getting back into comics, and told me that National, too, would probably be interested again. Mort had left and no one else there held a grudge. Marvel had never had a…
…Then I’ll show them to you. Anyway…. I suspect most people are familiar with the fact that in 1985 Marvel Comics published a comic book, Heroes for Hope, to raise money for East African famine relief. The idea came from Jim Starlin and Berni (now spelled Bernie) Wrightson. I think…
…I couldn’t let him down. He’s helped me out many times and never let me down. This is an excerpt from the Mile High Comics Newsletter, December 7th: Jim Shooter Will Autograph Comics For You! Howdy! Big news this morning, as I have a tentative agreement with comics legend, Jim…