…was a testament to that. Eventually, publication had to be suspended. However, Joe thought there might be an opportunity in the custom comics area. Custom comics seemed to be a reasonably active business. The turn up inserted in the newspaper, in the doctor’s office, and you see comics format ads…
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…back to DC, he informed DC that he owed Marvel some scripts. Rather than have Gerry work off the debt writing for Marvel, DC sent Marvel a check for the arrears and worked out some payment plan with Gerry. Addition to the Important Note: DC’s check was delivered to Marvel’s…
…but still very damaging instances.First, in my early days as Editor in Chief at Marvel, I went to a lot of conventions, trying to promote the books. I was on the road two or three weekends a month. I paid my own expenses—that is, Marvel paid my expenses. I had…
The Benevolent Lapping Scam – Background Info While Stan Lee was the editor, from 1941 till Roy Thomas took over as Marvel’s first Editor in Chief in 1972, Marvel Comics was run like a mom’n’pop operation. Stan was the boss, and did or governed all things creative. For a while…
…play us in a “Championship of Comics” game. More on that later. Finally, we got to the main subject. Jenette brought up the first Marvel/DC crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, published in 1976, which she thought was a wonderful idea. Why not do it again? Okay. We talked about…
“How Could You Let This Happen?” or, “What Do You MEAN Roy’s Quitting?” Roy Thomas leaving Marvel? Unthinkable. Almost as unthinkable as Stan Lee leaving Marvel. Seriously. In 1980, it was that big a deal. If Roy were leaving to go write movies or TV shows or novels, well, that…
…met him at the Marvel UK offices way back in 1986, when he had made the Cross-Atlantic flight across the pond, from NYC to London, to deliver his motivational talk on creating comics and meet his, then very young, UK-based comic creators at the Bayswater offices just off Queensway at…
…the beginning of 1976 till the end of 1978 I was associate editor. Anywhere but Marvel, the title would have been “editor,” because I was in fact the line editor, charged with the hands-on editing of the color comics. 45 of them a month. That’s about 40 more than a…
…on his shoulder and the hammer and sickle in the background. If I don’t know who the guy is no new reader would have a clue. And the female character? How many non-comics readers know of Marvel’s Black Widow? We comics-savvy types know that the female character is dressed like…
…worked (secretly, at their insistence) for the unlearned children who ran Valiant Entertainment, Inc., Bill Jemas, former Marvel publishing V.P., served as a consultant to VEI. I would often try to gently explain various publishing or comics 101 things to the children. Bill would flat out tell them they were…