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230 “Unfortunately . . . you come”: Sanderson, The X-Men Companion I.
230 death threats: Diana Schutz, “X-Men: Chris Claremont Interview, Part II,” Comics Collector 2, Winter 1984.
230 cash registers rang: TCR Top 100 list, Comic Reader 184, October 1980.
230 Shooter asked Jim Starlin: Comics Feature 5, September 1980.
231 “twenty developmental”: Ibid.
231 “We figured if people”: David Schwartz, “Marvel Goes Hollywood,” Marvel Age Annual 1, 1985.
231 asked to work up a presentation: Peter Sanderson, “Steve Gerber,” Comics Feature 12/13, September–October 1981.
231 “Stan was responsible”: Steve Gerber letter published in Comics Journal 57, Summer 1980.
232 “derivative media work”: “Gerber Sues Marvel Over Rights to Duck; Comes Out Ahead in First Legal Skirmish,” Comics Journal 62, March 1981.
232 Among the other prospective: “New Gerber Creation on ABC,” Comics Feature 4, July–August 1980.
232 “For me it was almost”: Tom Field, Secrets in the Shadows: The Art & Life of Gene Colan, TwoMorrows, 2005.
232 “I’ve got fans”: Mitchell Itkowitz and Michael J. Catron, “John Byrne,” Comics Journal 57, Summer 1980.
232 “You get to hang out”: Howell and Kalish, “An Interview with Bill Mantlo.”
232 “Rarely will you find”: Diana Schutz, “X-Men: Chris Claremont Interview, Part II,” Comics Collector 2, Winter, 1984.
235 he volunteered: John Byrne, “The Fantastic Four: A Personal Recollection”: Fantastic Four Chronicles, 1982.
236 30 percent of Marvel’s sales: Comic Times 3, November 1980. Wein and Wolfman take Byrne to task in Jay Zilber, “Interview: Len Wein and Marv Wolfman,” Fantastic Four Chronicles, 1982.
239 “Some friend of John Byrne’s called”: Roger Green, “Questions and Answers with Jack Kirby, Version Two,” Fantastic Four Chronicles, 1982.
239 “Yeah, . . . sounds like fun”: John Morrow, “The Other Duck Man,” Jack Kirby Collector 10, April 1996.
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240 “After I got mugged”: Michael Catron, “Devil’s Advocate,” Amazing Heroes 4, September 1981.
240 “I like to play into very daily fears”: Peter Sanderson, “The Frank Miller/Klaus Janson Interview,” The Daredevil Chronicles, February 1982.
241 “probably the most Christian”: Richard Howell and Carol Kalish, “An Interview with Frank Miller,” Comics Feature 14, December 1981.
243 “In the country of the blind”: Richard Howell and Carol Kalish, “Looking Ahead at DC: Roy Thomas,” Comics Feature 11, August 1981.
243 Dave Cockrum created: Comics Feature 11, August 1981.
243 A sort of West Coast X-Men: Peter Sanderson, The X-Men Companion II, Fantagraphics, 1982.
243 “I wanted to handle it”: DeFalco, Comics Creators on The X-Men.
244 “We poke fun at ourselves”: Geoff Gehman, “Captain America: When A Musical Won’t Fly,” Morning Call, March 27, 1988.
244 “ads for toys”: Howard Zimmerman, “Kirby Takes on the Comics,” Comics Scene 2, March 1982.
245 “I’ve created a number of characters”: Robert Greenberger, “Marvel Turns 20,” Comics Scene 1, January 1982.
245 “I have, of late”: John Byrne, “On Creator’s Rights,” Comics Scene 2, March 1982.
246 “most definitions of that word”: Letter from Donald S. Engel to Stuart J. Freedman, December 16, 1981.
246 X-Men selling over: Kim Thompson, “Marvel Announces Royalties Plan,” Comics Journal 70, February 1982.
246 “It’s me and Frank Miller and”: Sanderson, The X-Men Companion II.
247 “I think they’re the best two”: Howell and Kalish, “An Interview with Bill Mantlo.”
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251 “I didn’t give a damn”: Zimmerman, “Danny Crespi.”
252 With Marvel’s comic sales rising: Kim Thompson, “Marvel Miscellania,” Comics Journal 79, January 1983.
252 “How soon ’til we see”: “Marvel’s Professional Fannishness,” letter from Matt Feazell, Comics Journal 84, September 1983.
254 “There are writers and artists”: “John Byrne at Dallas,” Comics Journal 75, September 1982.
255 “No female character”: Spider-Woman 48 letter column, February 1983.
257 “He works eight hours”: Robert Greenberger, “Creating the Comics Part B: Inking,” Comics Scene 6, November 1982.
257 “one of the most traumatic”: Kim Thompson, “Miller, Day, Sienkiewicz Drop Marvel Titles,” Comics Journal 76, October 1982.
257 “drastic, sweeping changes”: “Moench Goes Freelance,” Comics Scene 7, January 1983.
258 “I could kill off”: Cat Yronwode, “Fit to Print,” Comics Buyer’s Guide 461, September 17, 1982.
258 “I never told”: Hal Schuster, “Doug Moench, Jim Shooter, and Death in the Marvel Universe,” Comics Feature 21, November 1982.
258 “None of them”: Ibid.
258 “Jim had an idea”: “Moench Goes Freelance,” Comics Scene 7, January 1983.
259 “When I was talking”: Ibid.
259 “My guess is that someone”: Jim Shooter, Comment on “Superman—First Marvel Issue!,” JimShooter.com, October 11, 2011.
259 “He had been writing”: Diana Schutz, “Chris Claremont—Superstar,” Comics Scene 11, September 1983.
259 “a rhetorical example”: September 1982 WAIF radio interview by Chris Barkley; a transcribed version was published on booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com on March 24, 2006.
260 “Gene was a creature”: Doug Moench, “Gene Day: Dweller by a Dark Stream,” Comics Scene 7, January 1983.
260 “Gene Day Left Master of Kung Fu”: Gary Groth, “Marvel’s War with the Press,” Comics Journal 79, January 1983.
260 “I’m a big Marvel supporter”: Mark Shainblum, “The Last Interview,” Orion 2, 1982.
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262 “I came back the afternoon”: “Shop Talk: Jack Kirby,” Will Eisner’s Spirit Magazine 39, February 1983.
262 “I don’t know whether . . . or not”: Jim Salicrup, “Stan Lee,” Comics Interview, July 1983.
263 “I said, ‘I want to do a god’ ”: Leonard Pitts interview with Stan Lee, circa 1984.
263 Jenette Kahn and Paul Levitz took Jack and Roz: Ro, Tales to Astonish.
264 “In essence”: Jim Salicrup, “Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars,” Comics Interview 14, August 1984.
264 In August 1983: “Cadence Proposal to Take Firm Private Set by Top Managers,” Wall Street Journal, August 8, 1983.
266 “Why don’t you do”: Mitch Cohn, “Fred Hembeck,” Comics Interview 22, June 1985. Direct market increases reported in Kim Thompson, “Marvel Miscellania,” Comics Journal 79, January 1983, and Kim Thompson, “Marvel Miscellania,” Comics Journal 86, November 1983.
268 “If the comics are good”: “Bullpen Bulletins,” February 1983.
270 “Why would a being”: Secret Wars 9.
270 When the final issue: Renee Witterstaetter interviews with Beatty and Zeck, Comics Interview 72, 1989.
271 “The Fire Marshal shut it down”: Dan Johnson, “Black and White and Read All Over,” Back Issue 12, October 2005.
272 “elimination of an irritation”: February 21, 1984, letter from Jim Shooter to Joe Calamari, posted to JimShooter.com on August 26, 2011.
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273 “I proposed that we do a Big Bang”: Dan Johnson, “Sparks in a Bottle: The Saga of the New Universe,” Back Issue 34, June 2009.
273 “It sold through the roof”: Duin and Richardson, Comics Between the Panels.
274 “Since I don’t have a lettercol”: Tom Heintjes,“Secret Wars: The Memo and the Plugs,” Comics Journal 97, April 1985.
277 “The letter was basically two sentences”: Paul Power, “Chic Stone,” Comics Interview 121, 1993.
277 “I got a very short note”: Chris Knowles, “Jim Mooney over Marvel,” Comic Book Artist 7, February 2000.
277 “Shooter . . . knows full well”: “Behind the Lines: Special Report,” Marvel Age 19, October 1984, quotes from the interview in the British fanzine Chain Reaction.
277 “They don’t give a shit”: Tom Heintjes and Kim Thompson, “Marvel’s Original Art Vault,” Comics Journal 92, August 1984.
278 “I wouldn’t cooperate with the Nazis”: Tom Heintjes, “Marvel Withholds Kirby’s Art,” Comics Journal 100, July 1985.
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.
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sp; 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.
