tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157513690234917810.post998195182068190486..comments2023-06-16T05:57:18.370-07:00Comments on STANLEY STORIES: Stan Lee Stories, Pt. 2: More Rip-offs from "The House of Ideas"--And A Story Starring "John Stanley"Frank M. Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157513690234917810.post-64206798887522083332013-09-09T07:13:18.294-07:002013-09-09T07:13:18.294-07:00For the sake of comparison a page from Kurtzman...For the sake of comparison a page from Kurtzman's first story for E.C..<br /><br />http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/wp-content/I/_Lucky16.jpgmr edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502298398657797233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157513690234917810.post-31288600283483245712013-09-09T06:13:44.854-07:002013-09-09T06:13:44.854-07:00Has anyone ever suggested Kurtzman had something t...Has anyone ever suggested Kurtzman had something to do with that "Blind Date" story? It reminds me of his early work. Since the date is 1950 it could even be an inventory story produced much earlier and stuck in a closet?<br />Kurtzman described working on RUSTY as: "The worst year of my life."<br />Kurtzman did meet his future wife Adel. <br />Adel Kurtzman tells this story: "Despite his young age, or perhaps as an over compensation for it, Stan Lee ran the Timely shop, with an iron hand. At 9:00 sharp a whistle was blown, and everyone was expected to jump into their respective tasks. One morning when Frank Giacoia was puffing a cigar and lingering over the morning paper Stan spotted him moments after the whistle. Giacoia was summarily sent home, and his pay docked for the day as an example. Stan might be perched cross-legged on a file cabinet, and employees were expected to bow to him as they entered, partly out of genuine arrogance."<br /><br />Kurtzman based his great story "The Man in the Gray Flannel Executive Suite" on his time working for Goodman, and Stan Lee in the 50's: <br /><br />Kurtzman met his wife Adele who was Stan Lee's girl Friday in the early 50's while working for Timely. <br />Kurtzman's Goodman character is named Lucifer Schlock. <br />If the story has a core of truth, Goodman/Schlock wouldn't fire an editor. Instead he would try to make them quit by subjecting them to humiliation, marginalizing them, and taking away their staff. This is exactly what was happening to Stan in the late 50's. <br />In the story Lucifer Schlock drives a long-time editor to suicide. When the editor takes his own life by leaping out a window Schlock calls his secretary. <br /><br />LS: Mr. Eolith has just jumped out the window. Notify the proper authorities immediately. <br /><br />Miss Verifax :l'll notify the police, and the hospital is there anything else? <br /><br />LS: What about the accounting department!!! You don't think I'm going to keep a dead man on payroll! First things first Miss Verifax! <br /><br />The early 60's bullpen didn't exist. It was Stan alone in a tiny cube; the moveable office wall system closing in on him. Picture the tiny office in Brazil. <br /><br /><br />Drew Friedman: My dad actually worked at Magazine Management, which was the company that owned Marvel Comics in the fifties and sixties, so he knew Stan Lee pretty well. He knew him before the superhero revival in the early sixties, when Stan Lee had one office, one secretary and that was it. The story was that Martin Goodman who ran the company was trying to phase him out because the comics weren't selling too well. <br /><br />Jack Kirby: They were moving out the furniture. <br /><br />Dick Ayers: Things started to get really bad in 1958. One day when I went in Stan looked at me and said, "Gee whiz, my uncle goes by and he doesn't even say hello to me." He meant Martin Goodman. And he proceeds to tell me, "You know, it's like a sinking ship and we're the rats, and we've got to get off." When I told Stan I was going to work for the post office, he said, "Before you do that let me send you something that you"ll ink." <br /><br />Larry Libber: It was just an alcove, with one window, and Stan was doing all the corrections himself; he had no assistants. Later I think Flo [Steinberg, secretary] and Sol Brodsky [production manager] came in. <br />mr edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502298398657797233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157513690234917810.post-82949618980368714322013-08-29T06:49:37.132-07:002013-08-29T06:49:37.132-07:00Thanks for posting this and for your effort.Thanks for posting this and for your effort.Mestierehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469030153414408109noreply@blogger.com