Issue # 15 of a 12-Issue Limited Series and Other Tales to AstonishJust as I stayed out of Larry Hama’s way on G.I. JOE, and stayed out of Archie Goodwin’s way on EPIC Illustrated and EPIC Comics, I pretty much left Mark Gruenwald alone and let him do his thing…
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…an inker in his younger days. He worked for several companies, among them Marvel-precursor Timely Comics. Stanley Lieber (who then used the pseudonym “Stan Lee,” which later became his legal name), a sixteen-year-old, comics-fanatic kid hired by his “Uncle” Martin Goodman (actually his cousin’s husband) was the entire editor of…
…And DC? Oh, and by the way, Alice was fairly new at Marvel, too. It wasn’t as if she’d let this slide and suddenly sprung it on me at the last minute. Anyway…. Marvel Comics was in chaos. We had books in house that should have gone to the separators…
…venture, but wanted to launch it with a half-hour animated special. Cool. Bogart wanted lots of Marvel heroes in the special and he wanted the stars he had under contract to provide voices for the non-Marvel characters. There had to be, therefore, characters to play for Robin Williams, Cher, Donna…
…stat I give them an 89% stat and pocket the difference.” 6. Marvel Publisher Mike Hobson, when things got out of hand (every day): “For the love of God, man, throw me a rope!” I have often borrowed that line…. 7. Exasperated Marvel Executive Vice President Joe Calamari to me…
When I showed up at Marvel in January 1976, it was a mess. It was chaos on every level. I showed up at 10:00 AM to be interviewed by Marv Wolfman (as per his request) for an associate editor job, and Marv strolls in at around 11:30. Then he says,…
…far too dignified and sophisticated as human beings to ever read a comic book. They joked about not knowing anything about the comics. I have to believe the TSR people had to be a little insulted. If Marvel’s execs thought that proper adult business people worried only about dollars and…
The Tenth Level of Hell The first time I ever heard the term “writer/editor” was shortly after arriving for my first day as associate editor of Marvel Comics on the first working day of January, 1976. At first I thought it must mean a part-time writer who also served as…
…to agree. Part of the problem was that Kirby’s lawyers were sending Marvel threatening letters with fair frequency, and Marvel’s lawyers judged that anything we did along those lines — revenue participations — could be used against Marvel in court, as a “tacit admission” that the characters belonged to Kirby….
“I’ll Never Doubt You Again.” One afternoon toward the end of April, 1980, I got a call from Marvel President Jim Galton. He said that Roy Thomas had asked for a meeting with him to discuss renewing his contract with Marvel. Roy had written a letter dated April 10 (I…