…muster. (Chase had been my debt provider and financial adviser the first time I tried to buy Marvel.) We spent several days in Marvel’s lawyers’ offices doing “due diligence.” I read the documents. Long story, but nothing ever came of it. The Trustee allowed Marvel and Toy Biz to merge…
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…Paul said the guy’s name was Steve Rude. A few days later, Steve Rude showed up at Marvel. Josie, the receptionist called to tell me he’d arrived. I went to reception and showed him to my office. His samples, penciled comics pages, looked stylistically like Paul’s stuff—but the draftsmanship was…
…had decided he wanted to be more involved with the comics again. He had been spending most of his time upstairs on the ninth floor, home to the non-comics people and big shots, where he contributed his advice and expertise to the magazines the company published under the Magazine Management…
…for the intellectual property involved. Printed comics aren’t big-money, but movies based on comics are, so Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and others have become increasingly unwilling to so much as look at any samples or submissions. The fear of compromising the chain of title for anything is that great. (ASIDE:…
…checks that did not total one dollar. They were hoping that their plan would help them steal talent from Marvel, which would theoretically boost sales, in which case they’d be happy to pay out some royalty money. Meanwhile, at Marvel, our line AVERAGE was over 200,000. EVERY Marvel title would…
…breakdowns, and Joe Sinnott, our premiere inker finishing. A dream team. Marv understood without discussion that this wasn’t a writer/editor project, one of those I’ll-do-it-on-my-own-you-check-it-when-I’m-done things. I was the editor on the Marvel side and Joe Orlando was responsible for approvals on the DC side. Marv started working on a…
Suits and LawsuitsIn early 1981, Steve Gerber sued Marvel Comics over ownership of Howard the Duck . I wasn’t at Marvel when the Duck first came to be. Almost all of what was at issue happened before my time, or during the time that I was associate editor, and not…
…a letter in his hands. He said it was a complaint about what a terrible Editor in Chief I was. The main crime alleged was that I was allowing an artist named John Byrne to ruin the Fantastic Four. Though Byrne had been working for Marvel for a few years…
…to save everything for posterity?” Toward the end of my time at Marvel, Marvel’s upper management duo, Galton and Calamari, along with Shelly Feinberg and a few other Cadence bigwigs (as “CMI” — Cadence Management Inc.) had taken Cadence, Marvel’s parent, private and sold the Marvel division to New World…
…more already. Shortly after it was announced that Disney had bought Marvel—has it been two years already?—someone asked me what I thought would happen, and in particular whether Disney would “suck the life” out of the comics. I said this: This changes the landscape considerably. Disney will help Marvel with…