…September, DC Comics explodes with 52 new #1 issues!” I wouldn’t use the word “explodes” if I were them. The last time DC had an “explosion” and launched a slew of new titles, an “implosion” soon followed. But, okay, that’s ancient history and most people who read that intro won’t…
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Let’s do the drugs first. Whoo-hoo! Drugs I think I wrote the first drug use story in the Comics Code era. It appeared in this issue of Action Comics: It was the second feature, a Legion of Super-Heroes story entitled “Forbidden Fruit.” Comic Book Database, www.comicbookdb.com, while often useful,…
…President of Broadway Video Entertainment offered me one—partnering with BVE to start a comic book company, Broadway Comics. One inducement Eric offered was that parent company Broadway Video had clout in the film and television arenas. With their muscle behind us, surely our comics properties would be on the…
…I started at Marvel. The first I saw of the book was at the penciled and scripted (dialogued) stage. One more time, in case there’s anyone out there still unfamiliar with creating comics “Marvel style”: The writer writes a plot, the penciler draws the story, then the writer writes dialogue…
Surprising Sinnott Sometime in late 1957, when I was six, star artist/inker Joe Sinnott visited Marvel’s offices, which were then located in the Empire State Building. And he never came back! Well, not for a long time, anyway. The first time I saw Joe Sinnott was in 1975 at Phil…
Sometime early in 1979, Marvel Comics President Jim Galton called me to his office to discuss an opportunity to license a toy property—ROM, the Spaceknight. We’d had some success with the Micronauts, which the legendary licensing/toy genius Stan Weston had pitched to me, and I had licensed, so Galton was…
Early 1978. Dark days for Marvel Comics. Bad sales, late books, bad books, waste, corruption, contentions over the new copyright law, general unrest, chaos in the ranks…. Stormy seas. The ship was sinking. I was the captain. It was my job to right the ship. One big problem was that…
…in because there was a steady parade of Marvel staffers and freelancers coming in all day to glom some free jellybeans from the gumball machine on my desk. If the visitor flopped down on my couch, I knew it was a casual, chatty visit or they were really tired. If…
…and open the door to creators worldwide who wanted to work on properties they owned rather than do work for hire on Marvel’s established properties. I spoke with Stan about it. Getting the right editor was critical. I suggested that we offer the position to Archie Goodwin. I didn’t think…
…the big comics guru. What do I do next?” I told him he’d done all the easy-money things. Now Marvel was going to have to create something. A parade of derivative stuff has come out from Marvel since. I’m still waiting for something new from the “House of Idea.” Here…