Back StoryAt 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 on…
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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…
…Milgrom 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…
…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…
…picks up a dozen comics at random off the rack, I’d be surprised if they could make sense of/understand/follow even one of them. Even hardcore fans find many comics daunting to follow! The craft of comics storytelling is all but lost. A Who’s Who of industry bigshots have privately agreed…
…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…
About the time I started working at Marvel in 1984 there was a storm gathering. A few of Marvel’s top freelancers had been coming to Jim with copies of comics from other countries in hand that they had not been paid royalties for. Jim tried to look into it and…
…“entire editor” but anything to do with the comics that Stan wanted I would have cheerfully done. As Steve Englehart once said, referring to Marvel Comics writers “…Stan is the father of us all.” Honor thy father. (By the way, Steve’s comment, which I believe I have represented accurately, was…
…superiority over any issue of Superman. Somebody, I reasoned, must get paid for making the comics. All I had to do was figure out why Spider-Man comics were better, learn how to do that, make some Superman comics that were as good as Marvels, and sell them to National. Simple….