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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A page from DAREDEVIL ANNUAL #1 by Gene Colan and John Tartaglione.
Quite a few border notes from Colan remain:
AT ONE IN THE MORNING—ANY WAY I’VE (words obscured) FOR THE NEXT D.D. STORY
#3 STAN WELCOMES ME IN HIS OFFICE. AH - IF IT ISN’T THE MERRY (words obscured) HAVE A SEAT
#4 STAN (word obscured) ME YOU’RE ELECTRONICALLY PREPARED FOR THE DAREDEVIL PLOT
#5 OKAY THEN - LET’S SEE - WE LAST LEFT OUR HERO
There’s also a note from Stan to production man Sol Brodsky asking for a correction:
SOL - WHO INKED THIS? GENE HAD DRAWN A DETAILED RECORDER! SEE NEXT PG. PANEL 1
Gene Colan as Richard Widmark, 1968. Photo from the third issue of the Gosh Wow fanzine.
Pencils by Gene Colan for DOCTOR STRANGE #180
Colan’s border notes read:
DOC STANDS ALONE IN A STRANGE VOID, CRYING
At the New York Creation Con in 1971, Gerry Conway promised an upcoming Sub-Mariner story in which the hero “meets up with a New Orleans hooker, goes into a New Orleans cathouse, and does the whole routine with the pimp there. We felt that that was a little strong, so we changed that into something that’s cleaner … they’re all drug addicts now. The Comics Code accepted that.”
Image from Sub-Mariner #48, April 1972. Art by Gene Colan and Mike Esposito. Words by Gerry Conway. Lettering by Artie Simek.
Text from Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.
Doctor Strange #9, August 1975. Art by Gene Colan and Frank Chiarmonte; Words by Steve Englehart.
Doctor Strange #180. Art by Gene Colan. Words by Roy Thomas.
Happy New Year!
My Love #16. Art by Gene Colan and Bill Everett. Words by Gary Friedrich.
My Love #16. Art by Gene Colan and Bill Everett. Words by Jean Thomas.
From “Panther’s Quest, Part VI” in Marvel Comics Presents #18, May 1989. Art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. Words by Don McGregor.
“Panther’s Quest” has never been collected; the stories are scattered in eight-page installments that are no longer in print. But McGregor and Colan’s “Detectives, Inc.” stories are collected here.
Roughly 20 more copies need to be sold before Don McGregor’s royalties start kicking in. He and his family have had a number of health issues lately, so he could definitely use some extra income. Do you think we can make that happen before the holidays? If you reblog this, we can get the word out.
Clint Eastwood makes a cameo in MY LOVE #16, March 1972. Art by Gene Colan; Words by Gary Friedrich.
“The grating voice becomes Mick Jagger’s!” The Sorcerer Supreme vs. Satan, from DOCTOR STRANGE #16, July 1976. Art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. Words by Steve Englehart.
MARVEL COMICS, IN A CTHULHU MOOD.
Here’s another glimpse at what might have been: A 1972 Roy Thomas memo proposes, among a handful of launches and title changes, a series “hosted” (a la EC’s Crypt Keeper) by the Doctor Strange villain Nightmare.
And what’s this? An anthology comic called THE MACABRE WORLD OF H.P. LOVECRAFT?!? A few months later, an issue of Journey into Mystery would feature an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark,” but no series ever materialized.
