First This: My sincere apologies. I’m sorry today’s post was so late that it drifted into tomorrow…that is, today. I’m trying. Sometimes life interferes with fun. My previous post about answering submissions at Marvel garnered this comment by ~P~: ~P~ said… Count me as yet another young hopeful, whom, after bleeding art and story on […]
JayJay here. Jim is delayed and we will be posting the blog a bit later today. […]
In a corner of the Marvel Editorial office sat a huge pile of unopened mail. There was so much of it you couldn’t describe it as a stack or a pile. More like a weary mountain, sort of leaning into the corner for support. If someone walked by quickly the air turbulence might cause a […]
Sometime in early 1978, Chris Claremont proposed that Spider-Man meet the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players” in an issue of Marvel Team-Up. For any of you who were born last week, the Not Ready For Prime Time Players are the cast members of Saturday Night Live. If you don’t know about SNL then ask […]
Here are some more things that turned up recently. What If George Pérez Drew the Legion of Super-Heroes…? George gave me this. This is the original drawing done for George’s beautiful book PÉREZ* * ACCENT ON THE FIRST ‘E’. It was published in 1977, I think. Marvel gave George a license to use its characters […]
I came across some things that relate to previous posts and comments. JayJay, the brilliant Blog Elf will provide links to the discussions. The Famous ROM #1 Cover That Wasn’t Here is the unused cover for ROM #1 penciled by Michael Netzer: […]
czeskleba commented: Dave Sim tells the story about Gene Day’s health problems and death here: http://tinyurl.com/4c8cw75 To summarize… Day came down to Manhattan to do a rush ink job on an issue of Master of Kung Fu. Marvel put him up in a roach-infested hotel, and when he complained he was told he could either stay […]
ja commented on yesterday’s post: “I must say it’s very impressive that you’ve saved so many items from your tenure at Marvel, and I assume, the rest of your career. Is this some sort of an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder-kind of thing, or did you one day make a conscious decision to save everything for posterity?” […]
Sometime in February, 1984, my secretary (it was okay to say “secretary” in those days) the wonderful Lynn Cohen told me that Bill Sarnoff was on the phone. Not his secretary, Bill Sarnoff himself, holding for me.Great Scott! Bill Sarnoff was the Big Cheese, I forget his exact title, of the publishing arm of Warner […]
JayJay Here. Jim will be a bit late with the blog today. He’s helping out a friend with hurricane preparations. And he has to do his own! So, later today. […]