With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to list the many things I have to be thankful for, such as being born at the perfect time to witness the birth of the Marvel Universe, what happened the day in 1963 the first issue of both The Avengers and The X-Men were released and I could afford to buy only one,  how my belief in anti-nepotism scored John Romita Jr. his first Marvel Comics art assignment, the magical night I raved to Brent Spiner about Stan Lee (and what “The Man” himself had to say about it), the first and last Incredible Hulk sketches Marie Severin drew for me 52 years apart, how the most important lesson I learned from being in comics was that I wasn’t meant to be in comics after all, and more.

And here are a few things to help illuminate the anecdotes I shared with you in this episode —

Marie Severin’s first sketch for me in 1972

Marie Severin’s final sketch for me in 2014

Marie Severin at work in 2014

The splash page to John Romita Jr.’s first Marvel story

And you can find all the Ethics columns I mentioned having written for The Comics Journal here in reverse chronological order.