{"id":27001,"date":"2020-09-25T13:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=27001"},"modified":"2022-09-17T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:48:09","slug":"danny-fingeroth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/25\/danny-fingeroth\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-oh! It’s Spider-Man SpaghettiOs with comics writer\/editor\/historian Danny Fingeroth in Episode 128 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 189 guests and more than 224 hours of ear candy, Eating the Fantastic makes history — by offering you an episode with the greatest discrepancy between the quality of the guest and the quality of the food being eaten.<\/p>\n

I’ve known that guest, Danny Fingeroth<\/a>, for more than 40 years. A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee<\/em>, his biography of “The Man,” has just been released in paperback. That’s but the latest of his many accomplishments since he started in comics back in the ’70s as an assistant at Marvel to previous guest Larry Lieber<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Danny went on to become group editor for all the Spider-Man titles, and writer of the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man<\/em> and Lethal Foes of Spider-Man<\/em> mini-series, plus long runs on Dazzler<\/em> and Darkhawk<\/em>. His other books in addition to that Stan Lee bio include Superman On The Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves<\/em> and Society and Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nAs for dinner … our multi-course meal was made up of nothing but Marvel-branded food — which clearly should be ingested for their novelty value only — about which you’ll hear us kibitz during our conversation.<\/p>\n

We discussed his start (like mine) in the Marvel British reprint department, what was wrong with the early letters he wrote to comics as a kid, his admittedly over-generalized theory that there were only two kinds of people on staff at Marvel, our differing reactions to the same first comic book convention in 1970, our somewhat similar regrets about the old-timers we worked beside during our early days in comics, the reason working in comics was wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time, why he wanted to be not only Stan Lee, but both Stan and<\/em> Jack Kirby, how he was able to interview “The Man” and get him to say things he’d never said before, why comics was the perfect medium for Stan Lee, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can eavesdrop on our conversation — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you might be moved to sample a few of the 127 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Check it out using the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or listen using the embed below.<\/p>\n