MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY
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"A WILD-RIDE ACCOUNT" —The Hollywood Reporter
"EPIC" —The New York Times
"INDISPENSABLE" —Los Angeles Times
"DEFINITIVE" —The Wall Street Journal
"SCINTILLATING" —Publishers Weekly
“FASCINATING” —GQ
"AUTHORITATIVE" —Kirkus Reviews
"GRIPPING" —Rolling Stone
"PRICELESS" —Booklist
"A MUST FOR ANY SUPERHERO OR POP-CULTURE FAN" —NY Post
"ESSENTIAL" —The Daily Beast
"A SUPERPOWERED MUST-READ" —USA Today
"REVELATORY" —The Miami Herald
"AS FULL OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS, TRAGIC REVERSALS AND UNLIKELY PLOT TWISTS AS ANY BOOK IN THE MARVEL CANON" —Newsday
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Tony Mortellaro and John Verpoorten working in the Marvel Bullpen, 635 Madison Avenue.
Inside the Marvel Bullpen
The New York University student film We Love You Herb Trimpe, shot at the Marvel offices in early 1970, provides visual evidence of the Bullpen: Trimpe, an Alan Alda lookalike, has decorated his station with a poster of General George S. Patton (World War II biplane models linger just above the shot). John Verpoorten and Marie Severin chat and tease as they work but never look up, the desks pushed together so tightly that everyone would have to stop working in order for anyone to squeeze out of the room.
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Marvel production manager John Verpoorten in the Marvel offices at 635 Madison Avenue. Photograph courtesy of Alan Kupperberg.
Here’s a page from NOT BRAND ECHH #8 by Gene Colan and John Verpoorten.
Here’s a page from X-MEN #50 by Jim Steranko and John Verpoorten.
The Marvel Bullpen, circa 1970.
Unknown, Stu Schwartzberg, Gil Kane, Gerry Conway, Bill Everett, Herb Trimpe, Marie Severin, John Verpoorten, Roy Thomas, John Romita, Morrie Kuramoto, Unknown (Allyn Brodsky?).
Can anyone identify the men at either end of the picture?
