I received an email notification Monday that Marvel Comics had sent me a mysterious FedEx package. What could it contain? I had no idea.

Marvel’s plans are usually a mystery to me, and I tend not to find out that early comics work of mine is being reprinted until it actually has been reprinted and I receive either a check or the printed book. So I had no idea what I’d find when I returned home last night and tore open the envelope.

Well, it turns out that an eight-page story I wrote starring The Vision, which was illustrated by Herb Trimpe and colored by my (at the time) future bride Irene Vartanoff …

… which first appeared in Avengers Annual # 6 way back in 1976 … (more…)