Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (60 page)

160 When Englehart received: Sanderson, “An Interview with Steve Englehart.”

160 “Basically, Mantis was”: Diana Schutz, “Steve Englehart,”
Fantaco’s Chronicles Series
4, August 1982.

160 “to be a slut”: Jon B. Cooke, “Marvel’s Third Wave,”
Comic Book Artist
18, March 2002.

160 “By the end”: Jon B. Cooke, “Marvel’s Third Wave,”
Comic Book Artist
18, March 2002.

161 “The Beast was a product”: Sanderson, “An Interview with Steve Englehart.”

161 “He got older”: David M. Singer, “I Deliver the Goods,”
Comic Times
, 2, September 1980.

164 “We never had a fight”:
Rocket’s Blast–Comicollector
114, October 1974.

164 “I came up to the office”: Marie Severin at San Diego Comic-Con, July 19, 1997. Transcribed in John Morrow, “The 1997 Kirby Tribute Panel,”
Jack Kirby Collector
17.

164 “Whatever I do at Marvel”: Nicholas Caputo, “A Shocking Story,”
Jack Kirby Collector
10, April 1996.

165 “Stan told me”: Robert Gustaveson, “Gerry Conway Talks Back to the Comics Journal,”
Comics Journal
69, December 1981.

166 “This doesn’t really work”: Craig Shutt, “The X-Men: A ‘Cool Concept,’ ”
Alter Ego
24, May 2003.

166 “really didn’t feel”: Gustaveson, “Gerry Conway Talks Back to the Comics Journal.”

166 “I’m not all that great”: Howell and Kalish, “The Mind of an Editor: Len Wein.”

167 “Len was taking a lot of tranquilizers”: Peter Sanderson,
The X-Men Companion I
, Fantagraphics, 1982.

167 “We’re presently undergoing”:
Comic Reader
129, April 1976.

167 “I was just speaking to our printer”: Scott Edelman, “Bullpen Bull,”
Comics Journal
43, December 1978.

168 the publisher’s Los Angeles distributor:
Comic Reader
113, December 1974.

169 $300,000 of Marvel’s sales:
Comics Journal
64, June 1981.

170 there would be no more Marvel Comics: Chuck Rozanski, “Evolution of the Direct Market VI,” milehighcomics.com.

170 “I think by June 30th of the year”: Daniels,
Marvel
.

170 “The first thing I had to do”: David Anthony Kraft, “Jim Galton,”
Comics Interview
1, February 1983.

171 “If
Celebrity
’s attitude”: James Monaco,
Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers
, Dell, 1978.

171 Now Lee enjoyed: “Super Stan the Comics Man,”
Cue
, 1974.

171 “What’s this—why is this here?”:
Marvel Age
8, November 1983, p. 15.

171 not to make major changes: Howell and Kalish, “The Mind of an Editor: Len Wein.”

171 “not by Stan Lee as the top”: Singer, “I Deliver the Goods.”

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174 “My father had a beat-up old car”: Christopher Irving, “Jim Shooter’s Secret Origin, in His Own Words, Part One,” NYCGraphicNovelists.com, July 20, 2010.

175 “You know who my inspiration was”: David Anthony Kraft, “Gerry Conway,”
Comics Interview
13, July 1984.

175 he cruelly berated: David M. Singer, “Chatting with Jim Shooter,”
Comic Times
4, 1980.

175 “He caused a kind of”: Harry Broertjes,
Legion Outpost
8, Summer 1974.

176 By the time a couple of: Ibid.

176 “young, strange looking, and dressed”: Jim Shooter, “Marvel and Me,”
The Comic Book Price Guide
, 1986.

178 “I said, ‘What’s with this duck?’ ”: Mark Singer, “The Underestimated Duck,”
New Yorker
, February 7, 1977.

179 “one of the best written comics”: “Wise Quacks,”
Howard the Duck
5.

179 “gruesome”:
Comic Reader
129.

179 “I was working at that particular time”: Sanderson, “Marv Wolfman.”

180 “Thor, the fine fool’s gold”:
Avengers
137, July 1975.

180 “Don and I used to be”: Kim Thompson, “An Interview with Marv Wolfman,”
Comics Journal
44, January 1979.

180 “I
believe
in the fairy tales”:
Jungle Action
20, March 1976.

181 “When a writer is specifically told”: Thompson, “An Interview with Marv Wolfman.”

181 He was arguing: Amash, “Writing Comics Turned Out to Be What I Really Wanted to Do with My Life.”

181 He was publicly predicting:
Comic Reader
129, April 1976.

182 “It was a job that was just impossible”: Sanderson, “Marv Wolfman.”

182 “It was like being caught”:
Comic Reader
147, p.13.

184 He immediately called:
Comic Media Showcase,
Conway letter.

185 “I tried to read the ‘good’ stuff”: Gary Groth, “Pushing Marvel into the 80s: An Interview with Jim Shooter,”
Comics Journal
60, November 1980.

186 “It seemed like the thing to do for the bicentennial”: Sanderson, “An Interview with Steve Englehart.”

186 “I found myself”: Singer, “I Deliver the Goods.”

186 “I just said”: Sanderson, “An Interview with Steve Englehart.”

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189 “I think in most cases”:
Comic Reader
147.

189 based part of his onstage costume: Gene Simmons,
Kiss and Make-Up
, p. 65, Random House, 2002.

189 Aucoin’s VP went ballistic: David Leaf and Ken Sharp,
Kiss Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography
, Grand Central, 2003.

190 “the first bit of sophisticated ad copy”: Gary Groth, “An Interview with Steve Gerber,”
Comics Journal
41, August 1978.

190 “I wonder if the basic idea”: Letter to Richard Kane of Marden-Kane agency, December 1, 1976.

191 Shooter, the perpetual second in command: Letter from Sol Brodsky to Barry Kaplan, April 20, 1976.

191 Goodwin, furious: Bell,
I Have to Live with This Guy
.

191 royalty payments for reprinted stories: Memos, courtesy Scott Edelman.

191 a letter from Sheldon Feinberg: Joe Brancatelli,
Eerie
87, October 1977.

192 “I’m the most famous”: Jerry Lazar, “A Duck Is Born,”
Circus
154, April 28, 1977.

194 “We felt, or maybe Stan felt”: Quoted in Gary Picariello, “The Equation for Success,”
Jack Kirby Collector
41, Fall 2004.

195 Roger Stern had to rewrite: John Byrne, post to Byrne Robotics forum. July 28, 2006.

196 “I was supposedly”: Video interview at Virginia Tech, November 1977.

196 the Kiss special sold: “Newswatch,”
Comics Journal
45, March 1979.

196 “For a while”: Groth, “An Interview with Steve Gerber.”

197 “I don’t want to say anything bad”: Sanderson,
The X-Men Companion I
.

197 “the phoenix-force”:
The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe
14, March 1984.

197 “quite active in the New York City demimonde”: Cat Yronwode, post to alt.magick, June 8, 2003.

198 “I made it known at Marvel”: Peter Sanderson,
The X-Men Companion II
, Fantagraphics, 1982.

198 “John was the heir apparent”: Jim Amash, “We Kicked the Whole Thing Around a Lot,”
Alter Ego
24, May 2003.

198 “I had become obsessively”: Roger Slifer, “Len Wein,”
Comics Journal
48, Summer 1979.

199 He told Wein that he would: Kim Thompson, “Roy Thomas Leaves Marvel,”
Comics Journal
56, June 1980.

201 “Among other things”: Gustaveson, “Fifteen Years at Marvel.”

201 Lee took Shooter out to lunch:
Marvel Fanfare
1, March 1982.

201 “I helped clean out his office”: Dwight Jon Zimmerman, “Danny Crespi,”
Comics Interview
9, March 1984.

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205 “Stan wants me”: Kim Thompson, “An Interview with Marvel’s Head Honcho,”
Comics Journal
40, June 1978.

205 “Everything that has”: Gary Groth, “Birth of the Guild,”
Comics Journal
42, October 1978.

205 sales of the
Hulk
comic: Jean-Paul Gabilliet,
Of Comics and Men
, University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

206 Gerber’s lawyer informed: Groth, “An interview with Steve Gerber.”

206 “I would just say”: “Marvel Fires Gerber,”
Comics Journal
41, August 1978.

206 “Once I was gone”: “Souped Up,”
Village Voice
, September 4, 1978.

207 “imaginative but undisciplined”: Hoy Murphy’s account of the Moncon II convention appeared in
Comics Reader
157, June 1978.

207 “The editorial staff . . . had”: Jon B. Cooke, “Starlin’s Cosmic Books,”
Comic Book Artist
2.

208 an editor went through: John Byrne post to Byrnerobotics.com, July 28, 2006.

208 “I didn’t really get a shot”: Howard Zimmerman, “Kirby Takes on The Comics,”
Comics Scene
2, March 1982.

208 The poster for the Comics Contract Meeting is reproduced: Gary Groth, “The Comics Guild,”
Comics Journal
42, October 1978.

209 “If we really want”: “John Byrne: The Interview,”
Comics Feature
27, January–February 1984.

210 “I was tempted to throw”: Sanderson,
X-Men Companion II
.

211 margin notes: “John Byrne in Dallas,”
Comics Journal
76, October 1982.

211 “Chris’ idea of a perfect”: Mitch Itkowitz and J. Michael Catron, “John Byrne,”
Comics Journal
57, Summer 1980.

211 “To me, . . . the fights are”: Margaret O’Connell, “Chris Claremont,”
Comics Journal
50, October 1979.

211 “He used to call”: Lou Mougin, “Jim Mooney,”
Comics Interview
103, 1991.

213 “Confidentially”: Dave Olbrich, funnybookfanatic.wordpress.com, December 18, 2008.

213 “In five years”: Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs,
The Comic Book Heroes
.

213 “His position was unique”:
Avengers
175, September 1978.

214 “I was in the unique position”:
Avengers
176, October 1978.

214 Stan’s salary: Raphael and Spurgeon,
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
.

214 “On his wrist”: Barbara Rowes, “Stan Lee, Creator of Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, Is America’s Biggest Mythmaker,”
People
, January 29, 1979.

214 “Comic books are like”: Jim Dawson, “Hello, Culture Lovers! Stan the Man Raps with Marvel Maniacs at James Madison University,”
Comics Journal
42, October 1978.

215 “I didn’t know we had any Russian superheroes”: “Stan Lee Replies to Eric Leguebe,” 1978, published in Jeff McLaughlin, ed.,
Stan Lee: Conversations
, University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

215 “Sol Brodsky got pictures”: Shutt, “The X-Men: A ‘Cool Concept.’ ”

215 “I should have gotten”: Ira Wolfman, “Stan Lee’s New Marvels,”
Circus
, July 20, 1978.

215 They convinced Cadence: Video interview at Virginia Tech, November 1977.

215 a budget was set: Ro,
Tales to Astonish
.

216 “With a new approach”:
Comic Reader
128, March 1976.

216 Marvel’s nonreturnable sales: “Marvel Hires Specialty Sales Manager,”
Comics Journal
54, March 1980.

216 he was now supplying:
Comics Journal
37, February 1977.

217 The company was missing: Chuck Rozanski, “Tales From the Database,” milehighcomics.com.