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Happy 69th birthday, Roy Thomas!
Roy Thomas, the first editor-in-chief under whom I served at Marvel Comics, turned 69 today. If he hadn’t brought me on board for my first position working on Marvel’s British reprint books, I likely...
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Who wrote those Marvel splash page headers in the mid-’70s?
The graphic gurus over at Bronze Age Babies (which you should be reading daily, of course) were pondering a bit of Marvel Comics arcana today—who wrote those intro blurbs that started appearing atop...
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Marie Severin’s ’70s Marvel Bullpen map
Todd Klein recently posted a wonderful report about a visit to DC Comics in the ’60s, which included a floor plan of the company’s offices at 575 Lexington Avenue, and made me realize—Hey! I have a map...
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The essay I thought would get me fired from Marvel Comics
I’ve already told you how the only reason I got my job at Marvel Comics in the ’70s was because of a serendipitous encounter with the late Duffy Vohland. But in a way, I almost lost that job because of...
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A Planet of the Apes magazine mystery
In 1974, Marvel published Planet of the Apes #1, which both told and continued the movie’s story. But even though this was a black-and-white magazine rather than a color comic, and therefore not...
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