That time I pulled Stan Lee’s (probably broken) leg
Over on Facebook in a Marvel Comics alumni group, Ted Jalbert has posted a July 1976 Get Well card to Stan Lee which I’d completely forgotten I’d ever signed, dug out of the archives The Man had...
View ArticleFun in the sun with Marie Severin
Sunday afternoon was one of the highlights of my year, because at the end of an extended weekend in New York—during which I recorded four new episodes of Eating the Fantastic—I got to take Marie...
View ArticleJune 24, 1974: My first day at Marvel Comics (and the day I met you-know-who)
Forty-three years ago today, on June 24, 1974, I arrived at 575 Madison Avenue for the first day of my new job at Marvel Comics, looking something like this … … where I was introduced to a young woman...
View ArticleToo few words about Len Wein
(I struggled Sunday to find the words which would explain how important Len Wein was in my life, but found I could’t bring myself to write the eulogy he deserved. All I could manage was the following...
View ArticleWho was that masked woman? Why, it’s Marie Severin!
Irene and I accomplished many things during our extended weekend trip to New Jersey and New York—she while attending the New Jersey Romance Writers conference, me while recording three new episodes of...
View ArticleDown dumplings with the legendary Irene Vartanoff on Episode 127 of Eating...
This episode, six months into the COVID-19 lockdown, is the first since my chat with Michael Dirda I was able to record the way these episodes are meant to be recorded — seated face to face with a...
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