Humble Beginnings
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Humble Beginnings
or: Wrong Place Wrong Time
This weeks grab bag... Marvel Fanfare - Strange tales” a collection of Fanfare 1-7. Fanfare plays a huge part in my comics career. Issues 1&4 are the springboards for everything.
Issue One has my first story for Marvel, Roger Mckenzie’s DD story Snow.
Done on spec, just think of how this plays out. Not only to I start with the best story of my career, I get comic’s hottest inker, Terry Austin and a debut on slick stock in Marvel’s newest spectacular.
Issue 4, Cris Claremont’s-Lost Souls, has lost it’s artist. Dave Cockrum needs a break. Me? I’m just walking through the halls of Marvel, not bothering anyone... “You! You got nothin’ to do. Here!” uhhh, ok. At that point I’m taking any job I could get.
Without the DD story, I don’t go to NY. Without being in NY, no X-Story. No X-Story, no Uncanny... Fanfare was my own try-out book.
Thanx, Al!
Happy Trails
Smitty