I was fired by Marvel in April of 1987. Sometime in May, Marvel’s business affairs veep, Joe Calamari called me to ask for help.Marvel’s new owners, New World Entertainment (it was New World Pictures when they acquired Marvel, but they’d changed the company name) wanted Marvel to have a balloon…
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…realized that with John Verpoorten dead, she could simply deny everything, insist that all the work that had been paid for but never done had, indeed, been done and delivered. She couldn’t help it if inept Marvel comics had “lost” the work. She got away clean. But anyway…. We thought…
…from Marvel about a month later, so sadly, I never really had the chance to do much for Roy or with him. Too bad. With his bat in the lineup…well, we would have won a lot of games. Roy Thomas TOMORROW OR MONDAY: Some Marvel Tales and Other Horror Stories…
While Jack was in the hospital in Queens, Paul called me to ask if Jack had insurance through Marvel. Yes, but it was the standard major medical coverage, which only paid 80%. Paul said Jack had been enrolled in Blue Cross/Blue Shield through DC (Jack worked at both places), but…
There was a sniper in the sales department of the Marvel Comics office. We were hunkered down behind desks, chairs, filing cabinets but we were slowly getting picked off one by one. It was dark but a little light filtered in from the fluorescent lights of the editorial department behind…
…told he could either stay there or sleep at the Marvel offices. He chose the latter, not realizing the heat would be turned off in the office at night. It was winter, and sleeping in the very cold Marvel offices caused him to develop a kidney infection, which was the…
Superman My first year as Marvel Editor in Chief was a tough one in many ways for everybody on staff. We all worked our butts off to get caught up, make things better and keep Marvel alive. I suppose I could look up the date, but I’m pretty sure it…
Some time around the summer of 1969, I was taken off of Adventure Comics, my one regular title, because the Legion of Super Heroes, my regular feature, was reduced to a second feature in Action Comics. That move made no sense to me. While other National titles had fallen precipitously,…
…most Dark Horse comics were already pirated and online free before the physical comics were on sale, and in his opinion, it was killing the business. In his book CONTENT, Cory mentions that his first book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom had been downloaded free 300,000 times and…
…once communications were established we worked together smoothly, like a well-oiled 1911 Studebaker. P.P.S. Total speculation here, I never asked John about this, but in retrospect, I think that maybe John was bringing some of his romance comics sensibilities to the strip, whereas I was thinking action-adventure. Whatever. Stan wanted…