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Comics Interview — Issue #005 (July 1983)

Two interviews combined: a long-distance conversation with DAK and Salicrup, plus a follow-up by Dan Hagen. Lee discusses his transition from comics writer to head of Marvel Productions in Hollywood, describing himself as "more of a salesman out here...

Comics Interview — Issue #058 (May 1988)

interview Stan Lee, Rick Hoberg & Larry Houston

...en pilot was set during Kitty Pryde's joining to give a child's point-of-view, and Stan comments on the SPIDER-MAN movie's uncertain status, THE PUNISHER as the likely first Marvel film to reach screens, and the HOWARD THE DUCK movie's failure to mai...

Comics Interview — Issue #064 (November 1988)

interview Stan Lee

Lee discusses his three concurrent Silver Surfer projects, including the collaboration with Moebius (in regular comic form), one with John Buscema (a graphic novel with full-page illustrations), and one with Keith Pollard. He reflects at length on Ma...

Comics Interview — Issue #085 (August 1990)

interview Stan Lee

Lee critiques the Hulk TV movies and discusses the Captain America film then in post-production, noting script quality compromised by over-cutting. He reflects on reviving Captain America in the 1960s as a "man out of time," explains how the inte...

Comics Interview — Issue #002 (April 1983)

interview Mark Evanier

...at "the secret of Marvel's success was bad art." Gives a detailed account of the Stan Lee / Jack Kirby working relationship and the ambiguity of who "wrote" what. Reveals extensive behind-the-scenes work packaging Tarzan and Korak comics for over...

Comics Interview — Issue #002 (April 1983)

interview George Roussos

...ecame Marvel's cover colorist after Marie Severin moved to penciling, and shares Stan Lee's color philosophy: "I don't want to see grays... something simple, powerful, and direct."

Comics Interview — Issue #003 (May 1983)

interview Bob Larkin

...ting technique, his accidental entry into comics through Neal Adams at DC, and how Stan Lee gave him his first full-color cover assignment. Despite the instability, he remains committed to freelancing: "I'd never have a steady job again, unless I had...

Comics Interview — Issue #007 (January 1984)

interview Joe Rosen

...Blue Beetle* for Fox just before Pearl Harbor. He recalls Marvel when it was "just Stan Lee and Artie Simek working in the corner of an office on Madison Avenue" and credits Marvel's institution of creator credits with making letterers feel prouder o...

Comics Interview — Issue #008 (February 1984)

article Fan on the Street: Warren Reece, Part One

...believes an editor sabotaged his hiring for a better position out of fear that Stan Lee would rely on Reece's encyclopedic knowledge over the editorial staff.

Comics Interview — Issue #009 (March 1984)

interview Danny Crespi

...tlas 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 tr...

Comics Interview — Issue #014 (August 1984)

interview Jim Shooter

..., and that the ending is known only to himself and editor Tom DeFalco — not even Stan Lee.

Comics Interview — Issue #017 (November 1984)

interview Flo Steinberg

Stan Lee's original secretary at Marvel (March 1963–1968), Flo describes the tiny, low-key early Marvel offices and a production process where Stan wrote everything, a handful of freelancers drew it, and the staff was literally just two people. She r...

Comics Interview — Issue #024 (June 1985)

interview Sal Buscema

...ng work to joining Marvel in 1968, sharing candid opinions including his view that Stan Lee's Silver Surfer characterization made the hero too "wimpy" and that he prefers loose plot-style scripts over full scripts for the creative freedom they allow....

Comics Interview — Issue #034 (May 1986)

interview Alan Weiss

...rview covers the creation of the Marvel KISS Super Special, including the story of Stan Lee attending a Kiss concert where a firecracker went off under his seat. Weiss discusses his philosophy of collaborative storytelling — preferring a "What do you...

Comics Interview — Issue #041 (December 1986)

interview Jack Kirby

...ed strips and early superhero work. He speaks at length about his partnership with Stan Lee at Marvel, asserting that the artists did the plotting while Stan served as production coordinator, and specifically credits Steve Ditko with developing Spide...

Comics Interview — Issue #043 (February 1987)

interview Jerry Perles

...the original CAPTAIN AMERICA lawsuit brought by Louis Silberkleit and working with Stan Lee and other key Marvel figures. On the current censorship debate, Perles was unequivocal: "It's censorship, pure — or not so pure — and simple," opposing the Co...

Comics Interview — Issue #049 (August 1987)

interview Lamar Waldron & Susan Barrows

...ning the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, where he cultivated relationships with figures like Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, and Forrest Ackerman. Barrows describes her journey from graphic designer to letterer and editor on MICRA; both discuss MICRA's science-fiction...

Comics Interview — Issue #059 (June 1988)

interview Gene Colan

...nts his career beginning at Fiction House in 1944, his years at Timely/Atlas under Stan Lee, his use of the alias "Adam Austin" for early Marvel work to avoid issues with DC, and his definitive runs on Daredevil, Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, and Tomb...

Comics Interview — Issue #062 (September 1988)

interview John Buscema

...erms of mood and physicality, discusses his new Silver Surfer graphic novel with Stan Lee (entirely in splash pages, which he found limiting), and reacts with strong opinions about the mistake of breaking up the Fantastic Four. He also reflects on ...

Comics Interview — Issue #064 (November 1988)

interview Moebius (Jean Giraud)

... is intentionally "mid-Atlantic," neither fully European nor American, and praises Stan Lee's script as poetic, philosophical, and "sad and dark," closer to Dark Knight than to typical superhero fare. On the Kirby/Marvel ownership dispute, he offers ...

Comics Interview — Issue #066 (January 1989)

interview Roy Thomas

...(ALTER EGO), his brief unhappy stint under Mort Weisinger at DC, and his hiring by Stan Lee at Marvel in 1965. He discusses the early Marvel Bullpen, his work on X-Men, Avengers (including the Kree-Skrull War with Neal Adams and the creation of the V...

Comics Interview — Issue #070 (May 1989)

interview Ron Mann

...creators including Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Harvey Kurtzman, and Stan Lee. He explains his outsider-to-convert arc, his focus on underground comics and censorship history (Kefauver hearings footage), and the film's festival run (Ber...

Comics Interview — Issue #081 (April 1990)

interview Gene Simmons

...archetypes directly influenced KISS's visual identity, the Marvel KISS comic (with Stan Lee present for a blood-in-the-ink promotional stunt), his failed attempt to play Jon Sable on television, and current projects including the Delta Tenn TV pilo...

Comics Interview — Issue #083 (June 1990)

interview Dan Barry

... two years of work. Barry also discusses Alex Raymond, Lou Fine, Wally Wood, and Stan Lee's handling of the Spider-Man newspaper strip.

Comics Interview — Issue #085 (August 1990)

interview Ted Newsom

...80s with partner John Brancato, detailing their Spidey-vs.-Doc-Ock story rooted in Stan Lee's outline. He traces the project's collapse through a succession of rewrites (including a disastrous pass by Menahem Golan), corporate upheaval at Cannon, the...

Comics Interview — Issue #089 (December 1990)

interview John Romita Sr.

...40s romance and war comics through his time at DC, then his return to Marvel where Stan Lee brought him onto Daredevil using Jack Kirby layouts as a bridge, and ultimately to Amazing Spider-Man. He details creating key characters including Mary J...

Comics Interview — Issue #089 (December 1990)

article "Lee vs. Kirby" Letters (Keith R.A. DeCandido)

...guing in seven points that Jack Kirby deserves primary co-creator credit alongside Stan Lee for the early Marvel characters, citing the Marvel method, Lee's self-promotional track record, and Kirby's long independent creative history.

Comics Interview — Issue #091 (February 1991)

article Letters: The Last Word

Readers debate the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby co-creation controversy, with Ed Hannigan offering pointed commentary; a second letter corrects caption credits for Continuity Studios artists on the Rocketeer storyboard project featured in issue #89.

Comics Interview — Issue #095 (June 1991)

interview Gene Colan

...sey*, war stories for Warren/Archie Goodwin, and the landmark "Marvel method" with Stan Lee on Iron Man, Daredevil, Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Colan discusses his film-influenced visual style, his preference for spontaneous panel-by-pa...

Comics Interview — Issue #097 (August 1991)

interview Gene Colan & Adrienne Colan

...s brief encounter with Roger Corman, and free-association memories of working with Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Archie Goodwin, Jack Kirby, Don McGregor, and Harlan Ellison. Adrienne Colan is briefly interviewed about her background in the arts and her...

Comics Interview — Issue #100 (November 1991)

article "The Powers That (Could) Be" (CI Staff)

Sidebar profiling figures such as Stan Lee, Peter Laird, and Moebius who were considered for the Power 100 but ultimately left off.

Comics Interview — Issue #103 (February 1992)

interview Jim Mooney

...He discusses the contrasting editorial styles of Weisinger ("Jekyll and Hyde") and Stan Lee, and his current work on the Superboy TV tie-in comic.

Comics Interview — Issue #119 (March 1993)

interview Vince Fago

...her Studios, Terrytoons), his four years as editor at Timely Comics filling in for Stan Lee during WWII, a decade on the syndicated Peter Rabbit strip, and a $1-million contract producing 100 Classics Illustrated-style books using Filipino artists. H...

Comics Interview — Issue #125 (September 1993)

article "Up Front" (David Anthony Kraft)

...lestone of issue #125 reflects on CI's longevity against the odds, comparing it to Stan Lee's run on Fantastic Four and musing on the unpredictable future of the comics industry.

Comics Interview — Issue #131 (February 1994)

article "Up Front: Bound or Bagged?" (David Anthony Kraft)

... formative experience with bound pulp magazine collections and his time convincing Stan Lee to bind Marvel's reference comics, arguing that bound volumes offer superior practical pleasure over bagged collectibles regardless of speculative resale valu...

Comics Interview — Issue #044 (March 1987)

interview Floyd Norman

...e Flintstones* revival, and The Smurfs, and his early start as Bill Woggon's assistant on Katy Keene. He notes that Europe takes comics far more seriously as an art form than the American market currently does.

Comics Interview — Issue #059 (June 1988)

interview Linda Stanley

Stanley, a printing sales representative at Sleepeck Printing in Chicago, explains the heat-set web offset printing process used for comic books, from paper stock choices (Dixon #101, Britewight, Baxter) to four-color dot printing, folding, perforati...

Comics Interview — Issue #063 (October 1988)

interview Jim Lee

...t anatomical errors (a tip from Terry Austin), and tracing published art to understand construction.

Comics Interview — Issue #128 (December 1993)

interview Jon Davidge

...ead of the Sylvester Stallone film. He also addresses the British market's resistance to superheroes and the influence of Scottish comics talent on American comics.

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