1 “Star Wars: The Comic Book That Saved Marvel!,” Alter Ego #68, May 2007.
2 Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper, 2013), 190–192.
3 “Vera Valiant, Vera Valiant,” Fabulous Fifties (blog), October 19, 2014, http://
4 Mark Evanier, Kirby: King of Comics (New York: Abrams Comic Arts, 2017), 195.
5 Mark Evanier, interview with the author, January 18, 2017.
6 Jim Amash, “‘Writing Comics Turned Out to Be What I Really Wanted to Do with My Life,’” Alter Ego #70, July 2007.
7 Evanier, Kirby, 199.
8 Stan Lee Collection, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.
9 Amash, “‘Writing Comics.’”
10 Jim Shooter, “The Secret Origin of Jim Shooter, Editor in Chief—Part 1,” JimShooter.com, June 23, 2011, http://
11 Howe, Marvel Comics, 200–202.
12 Ibid., 218, 238.
13 Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 178.
14 Victor Forbes, “Presenting, the Man Behind Spider-Man, Stan Lee!,” SunStorm, February 1978.
15 Evanier, interview with the author, January 18, 2017.
16 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience! (New York: Fireside, 1978).
17 Evanier, interview with the author, October 19, 2017.
18 Stan Lee Collection, University of Wyoming.
19 Stan Lee Collection, box #55, folder #4, University of Wyoming.
20 Stan Lee Collection, box #55, folders #1, 2, and 4, University of Wyoming.
21 Amash, “‘Writing Comics.’”
22 Ken Quattro, “Roy Thomas: More Corrections & Suggestions,” Comics Detective (blog), December 15, 2012, http://
23 Amash, “‘Writing Comics.’”
24 Evanier, Kirby, 203.
25 Ira Wolfman, “Stan Lee’s New Marvels,” Circus, July 1978.
26 Ira Wolfman, personal conversation with the author.