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Bill Coffin's avatar

That is such an awesome story. Some years ago, I wrote an award-winning article about Marvel writer Bill Mantlo, and how he fell through the cracks of the modern healthcare system. One of my sources for that was Chris Claremont, who was a friend of Bill's. Before I interviewed Chris, I said out loud, "You will be a professional. You will not tell him how much you love the X-Men." And I didn't. And it was a great interview and did a lot to help the story. (Which, in turn, did a lot to help Bill.) But it was a year later, at ComiCon, when I met Chris at his booth, I thanked him for his help, and he thanked me for the story. To be thanked by a hero like that is no small thing. To be thanked by Stan the Man? There's only one word for that: EXCELSIOR!

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Ade Rayner's avatar

Really empathize with your comments on early Marvel. I grew up with that stuff in the 60's (yeah, I'm really that old!). As a kid it was an unbelievably exciting time; those great sci-fi stories in the FF and elsewhere, the characters and artists. Nothing around like it at the time - Star Trek didn't arrive till late '66 by which time Kirby and Lee were well into the Surfer/Galactus storyline. Nail biting times waiting for the new issues to hit the newsstands! Shouldn't forget, at the same time Jim Steranko did his incredible tech noire Shield/Hydra series in Strange Tales - my goodness his artwork was cutting edge and still stands up today. Plenty of inspiration for the book series I'm writing.

Excelsior!

Ade

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