Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (59 page)

76 “I never saw his collection”: Jim Amash, “The Privacy Act of Carl Burgos,”
Alter Ego
49, June 2005.

77 “We’ve had movie offers”:
Fantastic Four
50.

77 “Simon said he created Captain America,” Simon,
The Comic-Book Makers
.

77 “I felt that whatever I did”: Sworn statement from Jack Kirby, posted in “
Marvel Worldwide, Inc. et al v. Kirby et al.
—Jack Kirby’s 1966 Statement,”
20th Century Danny Boy
, April 3, 2011.

78 In February 1956: “Admit Stealing 25 Cars in State,”
Gettysburg Times
, February 6, 1956.

78 “None of the things”: Robin Green, “Face Front! Clap Your Hands, You’re on the Winning Team!”
Rolling Stone
91, September 16, 1971.

80 “The kids were unbelievable”: McGovern, “Marvel Man.”

80 “sold 50,000 printed t-shirts”: “O.K., You Passed the 2-S Test—Now You’re Smart Enough for Comic Books,”
Esquire
, September 1966.

80 “Marvel often stretches”: “As Barry Jenkins, Ohio ’69, Says: ‘A Person Has to Have Intelligence to Read Them,’ ”
Esquire
, September 1966.

80 shaving cream and cars: Leonard Sloane, “Advertising: Comics Go Up, Up and Away,”
New York Times
, July 20, 1967.

81 “I couldn’t believe that a guy”: Roy Thomas, “Fifty Years on the ‘A’ List,”
Alter Ego
9, July 2001.

82 Lee himself was asking for changes: “An interview with the Romitas,” Mike Harris,
Comics Feature
22, December 1982.

82
Women’s Wear Daily
: “Original Art Stories: John Romita,”
20th Century Danny Boy
, October 21, 2010.

82 “goddamn automobiles and skyscrapers”: Roy Thomas, “An Avengers Interview—Sort Of—With John Buscema,”
Alter Ego
13, March 2002.

84 “a lonely sort of guy”: “1966 Kirby Keynote Speech,”
Jack Kirby Collector
43, Summer 2005.

84 “share ideas, laughs”: “Meet Jack Kirby,”
Merry Marvel Messenger
, 1966.

84 “Marvel’s been very kind”: “1966 Kirby Keynote Speech.”

86 “I’m not going to give them another”: Mark Evanier interview in Jon B. Cooke, “The Unknown Kirby,”
Comic Book Artist Special Edition
, December 1999.

87 clicked his heels: Green, “Face Front! Clap Your Hands, You’re on the Winning Team!”

88 While DC’s forty-eight titles: Leonard Sloane, “Advertising: Comics Go Up, Up and Away,”
New York Times
, July 20, 1967.

88 “eventually outstrip us”: Gene Reed, “A Conversation with Arnold Drake,”
Comic Reader
192, July 1981.

90 “I guess I treated the whole thing”: David Anthony Kraft and Jim Salicrup, “Stan Lee,”
Comics Interview
5, July 1983.

91 “Good evening”: Otto Friedrich,
Decline and Fall
, Harper & Row, 1970.

92 roughly the amount that the company:
Variety
, June 28, 1968.

92 “Stan, . . . I’ll see to it”:
Excelsior!

92 “We’re going to make a fortune”: Chris Welles, “ ‘Post’-Mortem,”
New York
, February 10, 1969.

93 “They didn’t believe”: Dwight Jon Zimmerman, “Fabulous Flo Steinberg,”
Comics Interview
17, November 1984.

93 In May, instead of: John Morrow, “A Tale of Two Contracts,”
Jack Kirby Collector
41, Fall 2004.

93 Thomas . . . returned to a lecture: Roy Thomas, “So You Want A Job, Eh?,”
Alter Ego
6, Autumn 2000.

93 “He was predictably thrilled”: Timothy Wylie,
Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment
, Feral House, 2009.

94 When makereadies: Roy Thomas, “ ‘Echh’ Marks the Spot,”
Alter Ego
95, July 2010.

94 “the fact that the heroes”: David F. Nolan,
The New Guard
, June 1966.

95 “People were congratulating me on this particular issue”: Jon B. Cooke, “John Buscema Interview,”
Jack Kirby Collector
18, January 1998.

95 “We had one sequence”: From
The Dick Cavett Show
, May 30, 1968; printed in Jeff McLaughlin, ed.,
Stan Lee: Conversations
, University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

96 “Our thinking”: Speech at the 1968 Comic Art Convention.

97 Lee had an assistant: Alan Hewetson,
Skywald! The Complete Illustrated History of the Horror-Mood
, Headpress, 2004.

97 “You implied that the Panther”:
East Village Other
, April 23, 1969.

98 “sort of a Sidney Poitier”: Don Allen,
The Electric Humanities
, Pflaum/Standard, 1971.

99 “I started thinking about”: Jim Amash, “Writing Comics Turned Out to Be What I Really Wanted to Do with My Life,”
Alter Ego
70, July 2007.

100 “You lose the very young kids”: Saul Braun, “Shazam! Here Comes Captain Relevant,”
New York Times
, May 2, 1971.

103 “You fellas think of”: Shel Dorf, “Speak The Language of the ’70s,”
Jack Kirby Collector
42, Spring 2006.

103 “I can’t understand” Conversation with Alain Resnais recorded by Stan Lee, May 14, 1969.

104 “I’m out”: “Ackerman Decides to Shun Limelight of Corporate Life,”
New York Times
, March 20, 1969.

104 set himself up with: “Ackerman Named Adviser at Perfect,” Robert E. Bedingfield,
New York Times
, August 26, 1969.

105 “Magazines were dying”: Jon B. Cooke, “John Romita: Spidey’s Man,”
Comic Book Artist
6, Fall 1999.

105 So in a cautious: Mark Evanier, post to Crisis on Infinite Comics forum, November 1, 2009.

106 The next time Carmine Infantino:
Jack Kirby Collector
46, p. 68.

106 “the bullpen had become”: Green, “Face Front! Clap Your Hands, You’re on the Winning Team!”

107 provides visual evidence: Jon Riley,
We Love You Herb Trimpe
, 1970.

107 When artist Barry Smith visited: Jon B. Cook, “Alias Barry Windsor-Smith,”
Comic Book Artist
2.

108 “Jack’s on line two”: “1997 Kirby Tribute Panel,”
Jack Kirby Collector
17, November 1997.

108 “Are you crazy?”: “John Romita,”
Jack Kirby Collector
33, November 2001.

108 “I thought they were going to close up”: Jon B. Cooke, “John Buscema Interview,”
Jack Kirby Collector
18, January 1998.

108 “Marie Severin made”: Dave Sikula, “Wondercon: Kirby, King of Comics,”
Comic Book Resources
, February 28, 2008.

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111 “frenzied, frantic and frenetic”: Stan Lee letter to Ken Koch.

111 moving his family:
Marvelmania
6, August 1970.

112 He made plans with the poet: WNYC interview, October 15, 1970.

112 “meets up with a New Orleans”:
Comic Fandom Monthly
3, November 1971.

113 “when his contract is up”:
Newfangles
39, September 1970.

113 “The comic book market”: Speech delivered at Lamb’s Club, New York, January 20, 1971, printed in
National Cartoonist Society Professional Report
1, no. 2, March 1971.

114 “The Monster Maker is”: A. H. Weiler, “Alain Resnais: La Garbage Est Finnie?,”
New York Times
, May 2, 1971.

117 “probably has more”:
Comics Fandom Monthly
3.

117 script sold for $25,000: Raphael and Spurgeon,
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
.

118 “I don’t have the feeling of repression”: Bruce Hamilton,
Rocket’s Blast Comicollector
81, 1971.

119 “near-paranoid delusions”:
Comic Fandom Monthly
3, November 1971.

119 With the Marvelmania fiasco: “Marvel Comics to Go Audiovisual,”
Billboard
, Oct. 16, 1971.

120 A slide show spilled: Bob Lardine, “Superheroes May Sandwich America,”
New York Sunday News
, January 2, 1972.

120 “While the Surfer scored highest”: Don Geringer, “The Hulk Is Searching for a Place in the Sun,”
Palm Beach Post-Times
, January 29, 1972.

121 “But who’s going to become the editor?”: Gustaveson, “Fifteen Years at Marvel.”

121 “Stan tried to give”: Ibid.

122 He started to line up: Michael Kustow letter to Stan Lee, July 12, 1972.

122 Lee also turned: Will Eisner letter to John Doe, February 20, 1973.

123 “All the other people”: Jon B. Cooke, “Comix Book: A Marvel Oddity,”
Comic Book Artist
7, February 2000.

124 “If we even talked about”: Daniels,
Marvel
.

124 “The waiting room was”: Mike Baron, “. . . and Now Spider-Man and the Marvel Comics Group,”
Creem
, April 1973.

126 “You must help me”: “Marvel Bullpen Profiles: Steve Gerber,”
Foom
5, Spring 1974.

126 “I’d wish them well”: Duin and Richardson,
Comics Between the Panels
.

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130 “Martin Goodman always thought”: “Stan the Man & Roy the Boy,”
Comic Book Artist
2, Summer 1998.

130 “There were some people at Marvel”: Gustaveson, “Fifteen Years at Marvel.”

131 “It’s kind of a shame”: Daniels,
Marvel
.

131 “much of Cage’s jivin’ slang”:
Foom
2, Summer 1973.

134 “I was always too academic”: David Anthony Kraft, “The Foom Interview: Steve Gerber,”
Foom
15, September 1976.

135 “For years”:
Captain America
157, January 1973.

137 “The idea that the three”: Scott Brick, “Who Really Killed Gwen Stacy?,”
Comics Buyer’s Guide
1647, November 2008.

138 “I told them not to kill”: Jim Magill, “POW! Stan (Speaker-Man) Arrives,”
Daily Collegian
, December 10, 1974.

139 “The office was flooded”: Kraft, “The Foom Interview: Steve Gerber.”

146 “By the time we finally”: David Smay, “Jim Starlin,”
Amazing Heroes
98, July 1, 1986.

146 “I got five issues into it”: Peter Sanderson, “An Interview with Steve Englehart,”
Comics Feature
5, September 1980.

146 “I swore up and down”: Ibid.

149 “When you’re used to”: Tom Spurgeon, “John Romita,”
Comics Journal
252, May 2003.

149 “too much like a vacation”: Gustaveson, “Fifteen Years at Marvel.”

150 “By becoming publisher”: Ibid.

150 “Roy was very open to ideas”: Peter Sanderson and Peter Gillis, “Marv Wolfman,”
Comics Feature
12/13, September–October 1981.

151 “unethical, immoral”: Gustaveson, “Fifteen Years at Marvel.”

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154 Cockrum, who filled: Tom DeFalco,
Comics Creators on The X-Men
, Titan, 2006.

155 “It was just another book”: Jim Amash, “Alienation Was What the X-Men Were All About,”
Alter Ego
24, May 2003.

156 “I’m looking at this book”: Richard Howell and Carol Kalish, “An Interview With Bill Mantlo,”
Comics Feature
17, June 1982.

156 “The problem at Marvel”: Richard Howell and Carol Kalish, “The Mind of an Editor: Len Wein,”
Comics Feature
6, October 1980.

157 “There was a definite hierarchy”: Howell and Kalish, “An Interview with Bill Mantlo.”

158 “It’s not that I think”: Jon B. Cooke, “The Heir Apparent,”
Comic Book Artist
2, Summer 1998.

160 “I never liked Mantis”: Glen Cadigan, “The Man Who Loved Comics,”
Alter Ego
78.