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A warm and funny look at Marvel's production history through the eyes of its longtime Art Production Coordinator. Crespi recalls the original Timely/Atlas Bullpen of the 1950s (John Severin, Marie Severin, Sol Brodsky, Bill Everett, Stan Lee), the 1957 layoffs and his subsequent decade in advertising, and his return to Marvel ~12 years prior at Morrie Kuramoto's invitation. He pays affectionate tribute to the late John Verpoorten, who ran the Bullpen before him, and contrasts the old full-script letterer workflow with the modern Xerox-and-vellum system, which he finds inferior.