Been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to blog, so those of you who don’t follow my brief updates on Twitter or Facebook might be wondering whether I still live. I do. It’s just that I haven’t had the time for anything more than those short bursts.

But now that it’s the first day of a three-day weekend (even though that first day is almost at an end), I figured … time for something more. So let’s start with a treat, something I dug up to share with Sean Howe, who’s writing what I hope will be the definitive history of Marvel Comics in the ’70s.

Below is a redacted memo written during my Marvel staff days. It was written by … well … I’d rather not say … complaining about … well … I didn’t think the identity of that person needed to be clearly identified either … and was written during the year … well … that might give too much away. But I still think it’s interesting even with some of the embarrassing details left out.

Besides—those who really know their Marvel stuff from that period will be able to figure it all out anyway. If you really want to know, you should have to work for it, I say.

Thought you’d all (well, all who are fanatics for that time period in Marvel’s history) would enjoy yet another peek behind the scenes …