This episode wrangles with some recent comics-related thoughts, including how Jim Steranko helped me have a 50th anniversary dinner, the surprising way George Lucas secretly surprised us all, my delight over a newly discovered 1972 photo of me hanging out with Howard Chaykin, how Paul Levitz’s new book about Marvel’s explosive growth proves everything I always thought about my comics career was correct, deciding what to do with my guilt over the life and death of E. Nelson Bridwell, and more. 

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Here are a few images related this episode’s topics —

Jay Kay Klein’s 1972 Lunacon Photo

That’s Howard Chaykin in the center, and going to his left, his first wife Daina Graziunas, Steve Skeates, my first comics friend Dave Simons, and then hairy hippie me.

Jim Steranko’s four-page splash
originally published in Strange Tales #167 (April 1968)

Incredible Science Fiction #33
Wally Wood’s original cover art sold for $26,450 in 2003

Me and Paul Levitz in 1974 and 2018

E. Nelson Bridwell: First Fan
An excerpt from the book by writer Reed Tucker and artist Dylan Mitchell