How could The Thing have a headache? After all, wasn’t he super?<\/p>\n
So I sat down and scribbled a note to Marvel Comics, and soon received a postcard back explaining it all.<\/p>\n
“You see, Scott,” said the card. “It was a super<\/em> headache!”<\/p>\n The card was signed “Stan & the Gang,” but it was, of course, from Flo, who at that time would have been in her first year as Marvel’s “Corresponding Secretary and Gal Friday.” <\/p>\n Flo’s face was first revealed to fans in the pages of Marvel Tales<\/em> #1 (which bore a cover date of 1964), and we first heard her voice on a record<\/a> which was produced in 1965 as part of the package I received when I joined the Merry Marvel Marching Society. <\/p>\n She sent me that membership kit when I was 10, along with a button I wore Sunday afternoon at the Society of Illustrators as I gathered with her friends, which included many current and former Marvel Bullpenners, to remember her.<\/p>\n There’s so much about Flo that’s important to know, but what I said Sunday, and what I want those who weren’t there to know about her most, is that when I was a kid, before I ever really knew her, she managed to make me feel important, and cared for, and liked. And that when I actually met her years later after I began to work for Marvel, I learned the person she’d made me believe she was and the person she really<\/em> was were the same. That’s rare.<\/p>\n The way she made me feel when I was a kid receiving postcards and No Prizes from her in the mail? She made me feel the same way years later when we were the two worst players on Marvel’s softball team. <\/p>\n Here are some of the others who rose to remember Flo. I’m sorry I didn’t capture them all. But I was glad to have been there with them for a few hours Sunday to reminisce. (And thank you, Jared Osborn, for snapping the photo of me above as I shared my own thoughts.)<\/p>\n Larry Hama<\/strong><\/p>\n Kim Deitch<\/strong><\/p>\n Steve Bunche<\/strong><\/p>\n Joe Quesada<\/strong><\/p>\n Nelson Faro DeCastro<\/strong><\/p>\n Nick Lowe<\/strong><\/p>\n Jules Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n Nelson Ribeiro<\/strong><\/p>\n James Taveras<\/strong><\/p>\n Darren Auck<\/strong><\/p>\n Marie Javins<\/strong><\/p>\n Jacque Porte<\/strong><\/p>\n Wilson Ramos, Jr. <\/strong><\/p>\n Dan Slott<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Kaluta<\/strong><\/p>\n Jared Osborn<\/strong><\/p>\n Once the speakers had finished, I lingered to catch up with old friends, some of whom I hadn’t seen in more than 30 years, such as Mike Kaluta …<\/p>\n … as well as with Jim Salicrup and Danny Fingeroth.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/FloSteinbergMarvelTales.jpg\")
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