Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (62 page)

278 “We’ve never tried”: Tom Heintjes, “Shooter Speaks Out on Kirby Art,”
Comics Journal
104, January 1986.

278 “I saved Marvel’s ass”: Unpublished Leonard Pitts interview with Jack Kirby.

279 “I don’t know much of what Jack is talking about”: Leonard Pitts interview with Stan Lee.

279 “Let’s be honest”: http://paulhowleysstory.blogspot.com/2009/12/part–70–79.html.

279 Shooter told reporters: Hal Schuster, “Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars,”
Comics Feature
29, May 1984.

284 The first plot that Gerber submitted: Tom Heintjes, “Gerber pulls Howard Script,”
Comics Journal
101, August 1985.

284 “I’m of the opinion”: David Smay, “Jim Starlin,”
Amazing Heroes
98, July 1, 1986.

284 “I got tired of writing stories”: Peter Sanderson, “Steve Englehart,”
Comics Journal
100, July 1985.

285 “one Bernhard Goetz”: Kim Thompson, “Frank Miller: Return of the Dark Knight,”
Comics Journal
101, August 1985.

287 “It would really be a cheat”: Peter Sanderson, “The Many Alternate Fates of the Phoenix,”
Comics Feature
4, July–August 1980.

289 They holed up in a Manhattan hotel room: Brian Cronin, “Comic Book Legends Revealed #204,” ComicBookResources.com, April 23, 2009.

289 Forty-five years earlier: Roy Thomas, “Fire and Water,”
Timely Presents: Human Torch
, February, 1999; Steranko,
Steranko’s History of Comics
.

290 “Continued to snipe”: John Byrne, Byrnerobotics, September 17, 2007.

292 That summer: Sholly Fisch, “The Wedding of the Year,”
Marvel Age
54, September 1987.

293 “If the movie is as good”: Dwight Jon Zimmerman, “Steve Gerber,”
Comics Interview
38, 1986.

294 “bloody awful”: December 16, 1985, letter from Jim Galton to Golan.

294 “The young, hip, fun-loving”: “Stan’s Soapbox,”
Marvel Age
51, June 1986.

296 screamed threats of a class action lawsuit:
Back Issue
magazine, with Warlock on cover. See
Wizard
142 for more, including “Fuck you.”

299 “He had helped build Marvel”: Ro,
Tales to Astonish
.

300 CompuServe messages: Kim Fryer, “Jim Shooter Fired,”
Comics Journal
116, July 1987.

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303 “He gave you a title”: Letter reprinted in “Vinnie Colletta’s Exit ‘Conversation,’ ”
20th Century Danny Boy
, April 29, 2007.

304 “I didn’t consider it merry”:
Earthwatch with Robert Knight and Warren Reece
, WBAI, August 28, 1987.

307 “Originally we weren’t going to”: DeFalco,
Comic Creators on X-Men
.

310 “He didn’t know what”: John Lustig, “Boaz Yakin,”
Comics Interview
76, 1989.

312 “find an undervalued company”: Peter Hood, “Roy Cohn Called Them the Perfect Couple”
Spy
, January–February 1988.

312 “mini-Disney in terms of”: Marvin R. Shanken, “Ron Perelman,”
Cigar Aficionado
, March 1995.

313 $300 million portfolio: Hood, “Roy Cohn Called Them the Perfect Couple.”

313 who’d met Perelman at: Phyllis Furman, “Perelman’s Tangled Web,”
Crain’s New York Business
, April 28, 1997.

313 “We exchanged pleasantries”: Lee,
Excelsior!

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319 “It wouldn’t have been my choice”: Len Wong, “Spider-Man Artist: Todd McFarlane,”
Amazing Heroes
179, May 1990.

319 “Uh . . . I don’t really consider”: Ibid.

320 “Right now, I still feel good”: Ibid.

320 “As long as I get Spider-Man”: Patrick Daniel O’Neill, “Writing & Drawing the Web-Head,”
Wizard
1, September 1991. Liefeld note to Harras published in
Marvel Age
81, November 1989.

321 “Bob said, ‘Let’s call him’ ”: Patrick Daniel O’Neill, “No Holds Barred,”
Wizard
10, June 1992.

321 “would do square windows”: DeFalco,
Comics Creators on The X-Men
.

321 “The books were suddenly being used”:
Wizard Special Edition: X-Men Turn Thirty
, 1993.

322 One Los Angeles store: John Jackson Miller, “June 2010 Flashbacks: McFarlane Spider-Man #1 at 20,” blog.comichron.com, July 13, 2010.

322 Estimated as an $8000 promotion: Lou Bank,
Comics Retailer
58, January 1997.

323 The manufacturing department’s five months of experiments: Sven Larsen, “What Spider-Man Can Teach Us About Interface Design,”
From Bogota With Love
, February 2009.

324 Marvel giddily noted: Floyd Norris, “Boom in Comic Books Lifts New Marvel Stock Offering,”
New York Times
, July 15, 1991.

325 “I thought it was the worst idea”: DeFalco,
Comics Creators on The X-Men
.

326 “He would change plots”: Paul J. Grant, “Poor Dead Doug, and Other Mutant Memories,”
Wizard Special Edition: X-Men Turn Thirty
, 1993.

326 1988 Bob Harras interview: Dwight Jon Zimmerman, “Bob Harras,”
Comics Interview
62, 1988.

327 “It just happened that Bob hated”: George Khoury,
Image: The Road to Independence
.

328 “an outright knock-down drag-out fight”: Steve Darnell, “Proceed With Prudence & Caution: Chris Claremont Drives Outside the Lines,”
Heroes Illustrated
12, June 1994.

329 “What you have is a corporate”: Kim Thompson, “Chris Claremont,”
Comics Journal
152, August 1992.

329 “abrupt, rude, and disrespectful”: Tom DeFalco,
Comics Creators on The Fantastic Four
, Titan, 2005.

329 “The X-Men . . . are going to pay”: Patrick Daniel O’Neill, “Mutants Aren’t Everything,”
Wizard
4, December 1991.

330 “Years later . . . I was told”: DeFalco,
Comics Creators on The X-Men
.

330 “Your title
X-O Manowar
is”: M. Clark Humphrey, “Does X-O Sound Like X-Men?,”
Comics Journal
146, November 1991.

331 “You sell a million, I’ll listen to you”: Kim Howard Johnson, “Spawn,”
Comics Scene
2, no. 27, June 1992.

331 “There’s no reason for me”: O’Neill, “Writing & Drawing the Web-Head.”

332 In the past two years: 1991 prospectus.

332 which, according to Marvel:
Amazing Heroes
186, December 1990.

332 In March 1991: Kate Fitzgerald, “Marvel Leaps Into 900 Promo,”
Advertising Age
, March 18, 1991.

333 the money raised would not: Furman, “Perelman’s Tangled Web.”

333 “revenue growth depends on”: Nancy Miller, “Spider-Man Makes Super Wall St. Debut,”
USA Today
, July 17, 1991.

334 “We’ve been accused of”: Sean Piccoli, “Comic Meister Extraordinaire,”
Washington Times
, October 25, 1991.

336 “More artists writing”: Letter printed in
Comics Buyers Guide
, August 1991.

336 “Quitting one at a time”: Kim Howard Johnson, “Spawn”
Comics Scene
2, no. 7, June 1992.

336 “Marvel Comics felt they could lose”: Duin and Richardson,
Comics Between the Panels
.

337 “That’s the wrong thing to say”: Ibid.

337 “There’ll always be somebody”: Michael Dean, “The Image Story,” tcj.com, October 25, 2000.

337 “Terry basically said”: George Khoury,
Image: The Road to Independence
, TwoMorrows, 2007.

338 “Jim and a couple”: Duin and Richardson,
Comics Between the Panels
.

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339 a two-page article that warned: Douglas A. Kass, “Pow! Smash! Ker-plash! High-Flying Marvel Comics May Be Headed for a Fall,”
Barron’s
, February 17, 1992.

342 “If the Punisher appears”: Jim Starlin,
The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life In Words and Pictures
, IDW, 2010.

343 “The editors are as trapped”: Peter David, “X’d Out,”
Comics Buyers Guide
, March 5, 1993.

344 It was through this maneuver that Marvel: Furman, “Perelman’s Tangled Web.”

345 There were eight thousand comic-book stores: Gabilliet,
Of Comics And Men
.

345 converted to comic sales to fill the void: Eric Reynolds, “Industry Sales Records in 1993 Shadowed by Collapse of Speculator Boom,”
Comics Journal
166, February 1994.

346 “The founding creators”: Gary Groth, “Marder for the Cause,”
Comics Journal
170, August 1994.

346 “Everyone had expense accounts”: Sean T. Collins, “The Amazing! Incredible! Uncanny Oral History of Marvel Comics,”
Maxim
, September 2009.

346 “We have to take our shot now”: Alex Chun, “Image Enhancement,”
Amazing Heroes
202, June 1992.

346 two of the principals: Carolyn M. Brown, “Marketing a New Universe of Heroes,”
Black Enterprise
, Nov. 1994.

347 “I had my turn”: Duin and Richardson,
Comics Between the Panels
.

347 “There’s nothing to differentiate”: Patrick Daniel O’Neill, “Claremont Returns with the Write Stuff,”
Wizard
22, June 1993.

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351 “Quite frankly”: Michael J. Catron, “Starlin Takes New Project To Malibu,”
Comics Journal
161, August 1993.

351 “It stings like hell”: Thom Carnell, “Walking the Streets of Sin City,”
Carpe Noctem
2, 1994.

352 “I don’t give a crap”:
Amazing Heroes Interviews
2, 1993.

354 Marvel’s publishing department: Eric Reynolds, “Marvel in Flux,”
Comics Journal
170, August 1994.

355 “Write me a memo”: Furman, “Perelman’s Tangled Web.”

355 Marvel added yet another business: Paul Noglows, “Marvel’s plan: Toys are must,”
Daily Variety
, April 22, 1993.

355 It pulled in a sizable adult audience: Gaile Robinson, “The X-Men Want the Night Too,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 27, 1993.

356
Fantastic Four
film: Robert Ito, “Fantastic Faux,”
Los Angeles
, March 2005.

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359 “Stanley and I never”: Gary Groth, “Jack Kirby,”
Comics Journal
134, February 1990.

359 “I think he’s gone beyond”: Duin and Richardson,
Comics Between the Panels
.

359 “Jack said something strange”: Ro,
Tales to Astonish
.

360 After Kirby’s death: Duin and Richardson,
Comics Between the Panels
.

361 36 percent in the first: Tim Jones, “Holy Competition, Batman!,”
Chicago Tribune
, August 25, 1994.

366 Perelman went out to California: Scott Rosenberg, talksaboutcomics.com podcast interview, by Joey Manley and Scott Kurtz, June 29, 2006.

367 “If I were really paranoid”: Eric Reynolds, “The Rumors Are True: Marvel Buys Malibu,”
Comics Journal
173, December 1994.

368 The presentation modified: Eric Reynolds: “Marvelution: The Art of the Deal,”
Comics Journal
176, April 1995.

369 “You’re moved from”: Tom Spurgeon, “Witness at the Marvelution,”
Comics Journal
177, May 1995.

369 “The lack of creative satisfaction”: Fabian Nicieza post to rec.arts.comics.xbooks, June 2, 1995.

369 eighty-five grand a month: Alex Foege, “The X-Men Files,”
New York
, July 17, 2000.

370 rewritten from scratch: Marc Shapiro, “The Wizard Q&A: Scott Lobdell,”
Wizard
65, January 1997.