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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Cover to Sub-Mariner #16 by Marie Severin and Frank Giacoia.
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Ms. Marvel #5. Preliminary by Marie Severin; Final cover by Ed Hannigan and Joe Sinnott.
Women in Comics: convention program from Delaware Valley Comicart Consortium, 1978. Art by Marie Severin.
Marie Severin mash-up of Nancy, Charlie Brown, and Fritz the Cat. From the cover of SPOOF #2, November 1972.
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.
(Text from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story)
Here’s a very rare image of Marie Severin at work in the Marvel Bullpen, circa 1970.
“Here We Go A-Plotting,” from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 (1968), and reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition #22 (1979). Art by John Romita and Marie Severin. Words by Stan Lee.
POP QUIZ: How many differences can you spot between the two versions?
Like Luke Cage, the Cat was subjected to medical experiments that gave her super powers. Instead of just super-strength, though, Greer Grant, formerly a docile homemaker, was given an intensified “women’s intuition.” (Two years later, the character was subjected to radiation, which transformed her into a furry, striped feline named Tigra. Her costume was simply a bikini.) Alas, the message of empowerment was lost on Wally Wood, who sent back the cover of The Cat #1 with the heroine’s clothes removed, and Marie Severin—who’d had more than her fill of boys’ club shenanigans over the years—had to white out the Cat’s nipples and pubic hair.
“What If…Celebrities Ran for President?” from SPOOF #3, January 1973. Art by Marie Severin; Words by Marv Wolfman.
From a 1969 X-MEN letters column, here’s a revelatory glimpse into who was coloring the artwork in Marvel’s comics.
Fake subscription ad for Marvel Comics, circa 1968. Art by Marie Severin.
