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1970S MARVELMANIA SPECIAL FEATURES: FRED HEMBECK’S DATELINE: @!!?* Before his daring dance with Lady Death, Thanos gives us the skinny on his ’70s rise to omnipotence ............21 MARTIAL ARTWORK: EVERYBODY WAS KUNG FU WATCHIN’! Talking with Roy Thomas, Jim Starlin, and Steve Englehart on the Origin of Shang-Chi, Kung Fu Master!........22 PAUL GULACY INTERVIEW: MASTER OF COMIC ART The raconteur artist gives a lively talk on his days with Dan Adkins, Doug Moench, and Marvel Comics ........24 DOUG MOENCH INTERVIEW: MOENCH’S MEMORIES Chicago son and ’70s Marvel’s prolific writer chats up his stay at the House of Ideas ......................................34 DAN ADKINS INTERVIEW: STRANGE TALES Stories from the World of Wally Wood and inside the House of Ideas, artist Adkins tells all in a riotous chat ..50 JIM MOONEY INTERVIEW: MOONEY OVER MARVEL On being a lifelong buddy of Stan Lee (with plenty of pix!) and working in the Marvel Bullpen ......................58 CLASH OF THE TITANS: THE DON MCGREGOR/MARIE SEVERIN FEUD Revealed at last! Our centerspread depicts the Bullpen Battles between Dauntless Don and Mirthful Marie ....64 STEVE GERBER INTERVIEW: CRAZY DAYS AT MARVEL From anthropomorphic ducks to Omega the Unknown, the celebrated writer on his days at Marvel ................66 RICH BUCKLER INTERVIEW: DEATHLOK, T’CHALLA AND OTHER MARVEL MEMORIES The self-described chameleon artist remembers the Bullpen days on Madison Avenue ....................................80 JOHN BYRNE INTERVIEW: THE EARLY MARVEL YEARS Mini-interview with the superstar artist about his first days working Marvel style ............................................92 STEVE MITCHELL INTERVIEW: THE BLUE-JEAN GENERATION A bittersweet talk with onetime Crusty Bunker about almost making it into Marvel ........................................ 96 DENIS KITCHEN INTERVIEW: MARVEL’S COMIX BOOK A look at Stan’s short strange trip into underground publishing with the cartoonist and KSP founder ............102
102 Contributors Neal Adams • Dan Adkins Mike W. Barr • Frank Brunner Rich Buckler • John Byrne Gene Colan • Arnold Drake Steve Englehart • Steve Gerber Paul Gulacy • Russ Heath Klaus Janson • Gil Kane Denis Kitchen • Don McGregor Doug Moench • Jim Mooney Jerry Ordway • George Perez Mike Ploog • John Romita Sr. Marie Severin • Barry Windsor-Smith art spiegelman • Frank Springer Jim Starlin • Jim Steranko Tom Sutton • Roy Thomas Alex Toth • Herb Trimpe Tom Sutton • Len Wein
ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE: THE GREAT MARVEL EXODUS Why did so many prominent creators leave Marvel in the late ’70s? Chris Knowles is on the case ................112 SECRET ORIGINS OF THE DIRECT MARKET, PART TWO Bob Beerbohm looks at the advent of Phil Seuling and the underground comix distribution network ............116 Tim Barnes • David A. Roach David “Hambone” Hamilton J.D. King • Charles Hatfield Tom Ziuko • Bob Lerose Arlen Schumer • Adam McGovern Dave LeMieux • Rick Pinchera R. Gary Land • Craig Thompson Mark Hanerfeld • Fred Hembeck Victor Lim • Mike Thibodeaux Albert Moy • Al Bigley Jerry Ordway • Sam Maronie Allan Rosenberg • Richard Kyle Jerry K. Boyd • Joe Kubert
Dedicated to Eden Faith Schumer Above: For the ’70s British comics, the Marvel Bullpen produced some material never seen in the U.S. The above Mike Nasser-penciled and Neal Adams-inked Vision was featured as a centerspread for the oblong weekly, The Titans. Courtesy of Tim Barnes. ©2000 Marvel Characters, Inc. Visit CBA on our Website at: www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/ All letters of comment, articles and artwork, please mail to: Jon B. Cooke, Editor, Comic Book Artist, P.O. Box 204, West Kingston, RI 02892-0204 (401) 783-1669 • Fax (401) 783-1287 • e-mail JonBCooke@aol.com
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