Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (66 page)

and drug culture, 134, 138, 143, 283

politics of, 136, 142, 150, 159, 162, 210, 397

return to Marvel, 265, 284, 315

Entertainment Tonight
(television show), 309, 353

Entourage
(television show), 430

Epic
, 216, 220

Epic Comics, 248, 265, 283, 284, 285, 291, 292, 315, 337, 351, 420

Eros, 141

Esposito, Mike, 156, 251, 277

Esquire
magazine, 4, 80

Eternals, the, 164, 194, 267

Eternity, 74, 213, 282

Everett, Bill, 12–14, 21, 22, 24, 29, 32, 51–52, 57, 75n, 125, 127, 155, 289, 397

Excalibur, 307, 308

Excelsior: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
, 415

Excelsior Comics, 373, 380

Executioner
novels (Pendleton), 138

Executioners, the, 330, 335

Existential Psychiatry
, 69

Exxon, 150

Fagan, Tom, 143

Fago, Vince, 23, 26

Falcon (Sam Wilson), 97, 98, 115, 129, 131, 267

Family Circle
magazine, 88

Famous Funnies
, 11

Fantastic Four, 3, 5, 41, 57, 85, 124, 224, 360, 363, 373

African-American character in, 85–86, 133

ancient aliens visitors in (
see
Kree)

animated cartoons, 77n, 89, 101, 208, 214, 222, 239

annuals, 56, 59, 76, 90

artists for, 61, 127, 147, 251, 265, 288–90, 327, 329

creation of, xi, 2, 118, 164, 262, 278–79, 293, 318, 358

credits on, 64–65

crossovers, 46, 47, 287–88, 375

enemies of, 40, 71–73, 106, 131, 269

film projects, 244, 261, 356, 392, 426

first issue of, 36–39, 155

and Kirby’s departure from Marvel, 108, 111

at Lee and Liefeld’s California studio, 375

letters page, 39, 44, 63

merchandising of, 263, 397

in New York City setting of, 60, 70–72

plot development process for, 64–65

relaunch of, 394

roast, 252, 266

spin-offs, 365, 406

subplots of, 210

twentieth anniversary of, 238–39, 273

uniforms of, 39, 42

What If?
takeoff of, 208

writers for, 114, 115, 125, 136, 139, 157, 198, 218–19, 235, 236, 265, 329, 422–23

See also specific characters

Fantasy Masterpieces
, 77, 86

Fass, Myron, 75, 86, 87

Fawcett Publications, 75, 101

Fear
, 115

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 246

Federal Reserve Bank, 50

Feiffer, Jules, 31

Feinberg, Sheldon, 104–5, 120–21, 128–29, 169–70, 191, 225, 264, 291, 311, 313

Fellini, Federico, 61, 63, 69, 113, 171

Feral, 330

Fiery Mask, 16

Fight Club
(film), 420

Fighting American, The, 34, 389

Film International
magazine, 170

Fin, the, 116

Fingeroth, Danny, 331, 343

First Comics, 272, 284

Fistful of Dollars, A
(film), 224n

Fite, Linda, 84, 129, 130, 140

Flash, the, 68, 101

Flash Gordon, 11, 17

Fleer Corporation, 344–45, 367, 368, 390, 400, 404

Fleischer brothers, 17

Flexo the Rubber Man, 16

Fly, the, 41

FOOM
(fanzine), 165n, 180, 252

Forever People, The
, 118, 163

For Men Only
magazine, 29, 36

Fortune, Dominic, 168

Fortune
magazine, 324

Foster, Hal, 17

Fountainhead, The
(Rand), 55n

Fourth World mythology, 118, 194

Fox, Gardner, 142–43

Fox Publications, 16, 17

Fox Studios,
see
Twentieth Century-Fox

Fox Television, 324

Kids network, 344, 355, 407

Fraction, Matt, 424

Franklin, Benjamin, 186

Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
(cartoon), 214

Free Comic Book Day, 417

Freedland, Nat, 63–65

Freedom Force, 286

Freemasons, 186

French, Daniel Chester, 143

Frenz, Ron, 271

Friedman, Bruce Jay, 29, 33, 44

Friedrich, Gary, 80, 90, 114, 124, 126, 148, 348, 428

Friedrich, Mike, 140, 147, 153–54, 183, 237, 249

Fries, Chuck, 195

Froehlich, Monroe, Jr., 30, 32

Fugs, the, 85

Fu Manchu, 145, 146, 258

Funnies, Inc., 12, 14, 16, 18–19, 21

Funnies on Parade
, 11

Fury, Nick, 56n, 73, 77n, 79, 81, 84, 89, 97, 100, 162–63, 177, 409, 413, 414, 416, 421, 425, 427

Futurians, The
(graphic novel), 255n, 285

Gabelli, Mario, 264

Gagarin, Yuri, 38

Gaines, William, 30, 345

Galactus, 72–74, 238, 269n, 282, 358

Gale, Bob, 310

Gallagher Report, The
, 91

Galton, Jim, 169–70, 182, 199, 231n, 244, 253, 264, 294, 311

budget concerns of, 169, 231n

and contacts with creators approved by, 212, 226

distribution deals of, 216–17

Hobson hired by, 237

licensing operations of, 193, 215–16, 219, 254

retirement of, 323

Shooter’s conflicts with, 290, 295, 296n, 303, 304

special publishing events encouraged by, 273

unionization resisted by, 191, 209

Geneen, Harold, 91

Generation X
, 380, 383

Gerber, Steve, 165, 173, 269, 283, 308, 315, 353, 400, 402, 412, 419n

arrival at Marvel of, 126

characters created by, 132, 282 (
see also
Howard the Duck)

corporate management’s antagonism toward, 184, 185, 189, 201

creators’ rights advocacy of, 209, 211, 212, 239, 244–45, 317

death of, 428

Kiss and, 191–93, 196

at Malibu, 348, 367, 379

McGregor and, 133–35

subversiveness of, 162

titles written by, 127, 130, 157–59, 189, 207, 213, 276, 314, 380

Ghost Rider, 124, 158, 185, 188, 244, 260, 266, 314, 323, 332, 341, 342, 426

Giacoia, Frank, 121, 124, 251

Giambologna, 13

Giant-Man (Henry Pym), 50, 56, 99, 358, 414

Giant-Size Man-Thing
, 172

Gibbons, John, 395

Gillette Corporation, 312

Gillis, Peter, 280–81

Giordano, Dick, 87, 125

Gladiator, 241

Godard, Jean-Luc, 77n

Godfather, The
(Puzo), 46

Godzilla
(film), 193, 197

Goetz, Bernhard, 285

Golan, Menahem, 380–81

Goldberg, Stan, 36, 39, 42, 49, 55, 111

Golden, Michael, 391

Golfers Anonymous
, 1

Goliath, 83

Gooden, Dwight, 309n

Gooding, Cuba, Jr., 415

Goodman, Chip, 61, 92, 101, 111, 112, 119–21, 128–29, 148, 149, 166, 168, 170, 191

Goodman, Dan, 195

Goodman, Isaac, 9, 25

Goodman, Jean Davis, 10, 11, 19, 92, 128

Goodman, Martin, 3, 32, 35, 53, 55, 63, 70, 80, 85, 93, 103, 130, 262, 398, 415

Atlas Comics founded by, 148, 149, 166, 168

competition with DC, 1–2, 36, 116–17

and copyright challenges, 75, 77, 86, 105

creative control limited by, 99–101, 111, 113, 121, 122

death of, 345

hiring and layoffs cycles of, 28, 32, 46, 409

Lee hired by, 1, 19–21

magazine publishing business of, 9–11, 25, 29, 68, 69, 128