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As of today, I have been the editor of AVENGERS for twenty-five years. An unprecedented tenure.
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As of today, I have been a @Marvel employee for 32 years. Starting into my 33rd year now. Not quite the longest tenure ever or anything, but still pretty good.
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John Byrne’s Fantastic Four reference sheet done while he was writing and penciling the series. I still use this.
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The oldest piece of Marvel art in existence, the last page to the Sub-Mariner story from Marvel Comics #1.
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The last thing Stan Lee wrote for Marvel he did for me, for the Marvel 75th Anniversary Special—a retelling of the very first text story he wrote for Timely, this time as a comic story illustrated by Bruce Timm. So Stan’s first Marvel story was also his last Marvel story.
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Cleaned my office out recently and came across some buried gems. Here’s an old memo from Jim Shooter to the Marvel staff in 1984. It’s no doubt the reason why Marvel didn’t put out any stinkers in ‘85, ‘86 & ‘87.
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Another look at my vintage spinner rack filled with junk comics. This was an actual rack that saw service in the 1970s. There are tattered copies of Justice League and Flash on the left there that I bought when I was 7, among other treasures.
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Fifty-Five years ago today, this book was published and the Marvel Universe began. Thanks, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby!
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After his retirement, George did his last Marvel page for me, for Marvel Comics #1000. After some discussion, he decided he wanted to do a White Tiger page, bringing his journey full circle and paying homage to co-creator Bill Mantlo.
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Well, this X-Men graphic sure brought people out in force. One reminder that I thought wouldn’t be necessary: express whatever opinion you like, but if you show up with homophobia or bigotry or hate speak of any sort, it’ll be an instant block.
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I think people, and certainly filmmakers, outsmart themselves with Superman. Like @ChrisEvans as Captain America, Superman can work just by being Superman, by embracing those qualities that have made him beloved. He doesn’t need the be grittier.
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There are only three types of conflict in literature:
Godzilla Vs. man.
Godzilla Vs. nature.
Godzilla vs himself/Mechagodzilla.
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Sam Wilson Captain America, Thunderbolts, Secret Wars, Kang Dynasty, Superhuman Law She-Hulk, Ironheart—feels like I’ve been accomplishing something.
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George gave me the cover to Avengers #4 as a gift—it hangs in my work space even now. The piece had been done originally for the Marvel Visions fan magazine, but when the editor didn’t like it for that use, I said I’d use it on the main book.
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Help bring the FANTASTIC FOUR back to the Marvel Universe!. For more, check out MARVEL 2-IN-ONE #1, in stores Dec 6! (And #2 and #3...)
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Absolutely gutted to hear about the passing of the First Lady of Marvel, Flo Steinberg. A fine person.
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All right, one more. Here’s an e-mail Stan Lee sent me concerning a script he had just turned in.
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There’s a story about George Pérez and Infinity Gauntlet that I tell to young artists and editors as a learning lesson. When George came back to work on Infinity Gauntlet, he hadn’t been at Marvel for close to a decade. 1/
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Opening this question up for discussion. At a recent Marvel editors round table we attempted to determine the best Marvel story ever done. Consensus was that it was “Born Again” in Daredevil by Miller & Mazucchelli. Can anyone top it?
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Here’s the first page to the original @KurtBusiek Thunderbolts proposal and my color design for Songbird.
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It is sadly once again M-Day, when we remember the three comic book greats who departed this mortal coil on this date. Mark Gruenwald, 22 years ago, Mike Wieringo, 11 years ago. Joe Kubert, six years ago.
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My friend Carlos Pacheco was a sweetheart of a guy who loved comics, the Marvel comics that he read as a child most of all. He brought an enthusiasm to his work that went beyond the drive of the professional—he was truly invested in the characters and their fictitious lives.
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I tell you, it’s easy to let social media convince you that fandom is cynical and awful, but spend a few days at a comic convention meeting fans face-to-face and you see nothing but love & enthusiasm. So far #nycc18 has been a thoroughly positive experience.
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Here’s a penciled page from Avengers/JLA #2 by George, a page some fans haven’t yet forgiven me for. This was a very fun project to work on, even if it went a bit off the rails towards the end. George penciled and inked all 200 pages of it, his magnum opus.
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It’s past midnight here, so it’s officially the 30th anniversary of my first day on staff at @Marvel
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The best single moment in the film is Reeve standing in Lois’s apartment, taking off his glasses and becoming Superman just by changing his posture. What a great piece of performance.
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When I met Moffat a short time after this event, he made it very clear how important it was to him that I understood that Mark Gatiss was the weak link here. Comically so.
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For the next 24 hours or so, this documentary about my late friend Dwayne McDuffie is free to watch, courtesy of DC Fandome. Yeah, I know it's the other guys, but you should still watch it. dcfandome.com/schedule/watch…
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I’ve loved a lot of Chuck Dixon’s comics and worked with him a time or two, and I find it perplexing to equate that sensible, knowledgeable writer with the guy spouting ignorant nonsense about the Punisher on his podcasts and elsewhere. He is smarter than that. He knows better.
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I think it almost goes without saying, but the stuff @JHickman is planning with the X-Men is going to revolutionize everything you think you know about those characters and that series. It’s like Secret Wars turned up to 11.
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He talked about this elsewhere, but probably the moment that finally unified @BRIANMBENDIS and me on working on New Avengers was when I got George Pérez to draw the final few pages of Avengers Finale #1. Brian was a huge fan, and George did it as a solid for me.
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Been working on this with the team for a long while. It's Frank's equivalent of "Daredevil: Born Again", a trajectory-shifting story. : nam04.safelinks.protection.o…
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I know I’m just being old, but every time I see that elegant Flash costume with all of those extraneous extra yellow lines all over it, it breaks my heart a little. It looks terrible, and kills the classic design lines.
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Surprisingly not seeing many people talking about our X-Men trailer. So here it is: piped.video/QuyyM-Jlkas?si=xSgL…
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I got to work with George on the Heroes Return revival of the series. Here’s a penciled page from our first issue. George did tight pencils like this one for the first 4 issues, and looser pencils thereafter. Everything is here, and everybody looks great.
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Since people have expressed an interest in it, here are two presentation boards from the Daredevil cartoon proposal from 1982 that Frank Miller’s cover put the kibosh on.
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So today marks 33 years since my first day on staff at Marvel. Now we begin year 34.
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George Pérez drew the first real Marvel comic I ever bought, Fantastic Four #177. Here’s a page from it.
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Eighty-two years ago today, Marvel Comics #1 went on sale—the first Marvel/Timely comic ever published. Print run: 80,000 copies. Went back for an 800,000 copy second printing the following month.
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Time once again to remind the world that this is the greatest single panel in comic book history. Hail Kirby!
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Today is the 80th anniversary of the most expensive comic book I ever bought. This thing still exerts a hypnotic hold over me.
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In other words, he realized that nobody is owed work and he decided that he would hit every page with the same fire he had when he was first starting out. There are creators old and new who could learn something from that. /END
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An amazing photo of David Tenant receiving the same toy for Christmas at 10 years old and at 47 years old.
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Along those same lines, here are early designs for Firestar, then called Heatwave. You can see that Angelica was visually based on John Romita’s Mary Jane.
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It’s once again M-Day, when we commemorate the passing of three comic book titans: Mark Gruenwald, Mike Wieringo and Joe Kubert, all of whom died on this date.
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This was meant to be the cover to Avengers #3 but was bumped up to #2 after the earlier #2 cover was rejected. George did a new cover for #3 which was just Wonder Man in his new energy form—fastest cover he’d ever done up to then. Later, he did the #19 Ultron cover even faster.
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Also, @nick_lowe_ opined that Daredevil has the greatest percentage of outstanding runs of any long-running Marvel title. I’m not sure that I can agree with that—how do you feel?
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Stan Lee was both the best-known comic book editor in the world and the best writer of his era, the 1960s. The fact that others surpassed him in this endeavor by building on what he did changes nothing of it.
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There’s a funny-in-retrospect story about this cover to JLA/Avengers #3. George had sold the original for a massive sum, and we had to send it back to him. But our intern mistakenly sent him a xerox copy instead. That morning, I came in to a message from a panicked George…1/
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I had no idea everybody was so No-Prize crazy! I also have the remaining supply of these Marvel 1000 challenge coins that were only given to contributors. Still have a bunch left over.
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I bought this page of JLA/Avengers #1 when the book came out, to no one’s surprise. I had insisted that the Flash be the first character to cross between the DC and Marvel Universes (there was no pushback.) Around the office, this was known as “Tom’s page”
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