Marvel Editors King Sized Annual #2
Panelists included Howard Mackie, Terry Kavanagh, Tom DeFalco, Carl Potts, and Al Milgrom. The panel was moderated by Terence Dollard. The group spoke about how working for Marvel at the time was hard work, but it was fun, sometimes it was mandatory fun. They said that Mark Gruenwald was the spirit of Marvel and that it kinda died without him. Tom revealed why he always wore a tie into the office, Al Milgrom spoke at length about Marvel’s history with Black Thursday (in the 1950s) when Stan had to let go of all the freelancers because of how many inventory stories they had. How that affected some of the freelancers, how Jim Shooter convinced the then Marvel owners to increase the editorial staff, starting off the fill-in issue and then his title Marvel Fanfare, the group talked about benefits of working together in an office, the juggling act of getting books out and how they dealt with late books, the worst excuses they heard from freelancers on why their work was late, the practical jokes they played on each other, President of Marvel Jim Galton and how lucky they were to have good upper management.
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