This is it! You can take a time-warping trip back to the nifty 1970 Marvel Comics Bullpen, thanks to sensational Steve Sherman! Steve took these pics during a tantalizing tour of the halcyon "House of Ideas," and here are his color images from this never-to-be-forgotten visit! Click each image below to enlarge, faithful ones!
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| Above: Outside the magic factory! |
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| Above: The hallowed halls themselves! Dig the then-current "MarvelMania" posters adorning the right wall! |
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| Above: Laughin' Larry Lieber (left) and jazzy John Romita, Sr. (right) seem less than excited, as they work on upcoming Marvel masterpieces! |
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| Above: A wall fulla greatness! Magazine publishers would often post their art, proofs, and finished magazines in this manner, in order to keep up with each step of production! |
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| Above; That's right! That is the much-talked-about Jack Kirby cigar butt, posted for all to see by mirthful Marie Severin (a fellow pencil-pusher), upon Jack's leaving Marvel for rival DC Comics! It's flanked by color charts, calendars, and more Marie cartoons and office caricatures! |
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| Above: Tony Isabella (on left, and soon to make his mark writing books such as DAREDEVIL) confers with rascally Roy Thomas (right)! |
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| Above three images: Master illustrator (best known for his stellar SPIDER-MAN run) John Romita, hard at work in the bullpen! Here he labors over an issue of FANTASTIC FOUR, taking over for the just-departed Jack Kirby! |
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| Above: Stu Schwartzberg on the job! |
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| Above: Happy Herb Trimpe, famed long-running HULK artist, hard at work! Or maybe just napping….? |
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| Above: Dig those titles! Every one a winner! |
BONUS! How much can ya stand? Click below for more pics, articles, and debris, all celebrating Stan Lee!
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| Above: A wonderful 60s newspaper article on Stan, and the then-exploding Marvel Comics Group! It also sports a rare pic of Stan without his trademarked hairpiece! |
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| Above: A nice late-60s caricature of Stan, by comics artist Don Heck! |
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| Above six images: Stan seen in the swingin' 70s, from press clippings, ads, and promotional pieces! |
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| Above: Stan in the mid-80s, flanked by later Bullpen stalwarts, Jim Shooter and Al Milgrom (toiling away on SHE-HULK covers)! |
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4 comments:
Wish someone would reprint those Marvelmania posters!
Fun Fact: That Fantastic Four issue John Romita's toiling away at is #105, the first issue I bought
Thank you so much for posting those great pics.
I started READING comics in 1973, and these pic bring back great memories.
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Best,
Andrew
Thank from France.
Thank you so much for posting these. This was my Golden Age! Really miss Herb he was a great guy & a good friend! So was Gene Colan & Dave Cockrum. I'm forwarding this on to Roy Thomas, Joe Sinnott & John Romita SR & JR. I wish I could had visited these offices back then. I was 8/9 years old in 1970. I had Roy Thomas finish plotting part II of the unfinished Man-God story. Which was published in Dec 76/Jan 77. In Marvel Preview #9 Roy's adapation of Philip Wylie's 1930 book Gladiator. Written in 1926 but Wylie had it not published on purpose until 1930.
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