Chapter 4: The Psychopathology of Comic Books

  1. Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon, Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 55.

  2. “We Wish You a Fago Christmas and a Happy New Year!,” Timely-Atlas-Comics, December 24, 2018, http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2018/12/.

  3. Raphael and Spurgeon, Stan Lee, 55.

  4. Ibid., 57–58.

  5. Carol L. Tilley, “Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 47, no. 4 (2012): 383–413, doi: 10.1353/lac.2012.0024.

  6. Judith Crist, interview with the author, February 23, 2008.

  7. “The People vs. Medea,” Judith Crist, Harper’s Bazaar’s January 1948 issue.

  8. Stan Lee, interview with the author, May 2, 2017.

  9. Crist, interview.

  10. “The Comics … Very Funny,” Saturday Review of Literature, May 29, 1948.

  11. Crist, interview.

  12. Judith Crist, “Horror in the Nursery,” Collier’s, March 27, 1948, http://www.lostsoti.org/ColliersArticleHorrorInTheNursery.htm.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Bradford C. Wright, Comic Book Nation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), 98.

  15. “Part 1: Fredric Wertham, Censorship & the Timely Anti-Wertham Editorials,” Timely-Atlas-Comics, February 6, 2011, http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2011/02/frederic-wertham-censorship-anti.html.

  16. Danny Fingeroth and Roy Thomas, eds., The Stan Lee Universe (Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows, 2011), interview with the author, December 25, 2008, 32.

  17. Stan Lee and George Mair, Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee (New York: Fireside, 2002), 81.

  18. Raphael and Spurgeon, Stan Lee, 60–61.

  19. Fingeroth and Thomas, eds., The Stan Lee Universe, interview with the author, January 29, 2008, 31.

  20. Pauline Goldberg, interview with the author, January 25, 2019.

  21. Joe Sinnott, interview with the author, December 8, 2016.

  22. Paul Gravett, “Bernie Krigstein: The Right to Silence,” June 8, 2008, http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/bernie_krigstein.

  23. Lee, interview with the author, May 2, 2017.

  24. Blake Bell, I Have to Live with This Guy! (Raleigh, NC: TwoMorrows, 2002), 82.

  25. Raphael and Spurgeon, Stan Lee, 37–38.

  26. Stan and Joan Lee, personal conversation with the author, January 1995.

  27. Bell, I Have to Live with This Guy!, 61.

  28. Lee and Mair, Excelsior!, 74–75.

  29. Joe Simon, My Life in Comics (London: Titan Books, 2011), 184–185.

  30. “Testimony of Mr. Monroe Froehlich, Jr.,” TheComicbooks.com, http://www.thecomicbooks.com/froehlich.html.

  31. Sean Howe, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper, 2013), 30.

  32. Larry Lieber, interview with the author, December 16, 2016.

  33. Raphael and Spurgeon, Stan Lee, 60–61.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Howe, Marvel Comics, here.

  36. Raphael and Spurgeon, Stan Lee, 61.

  37. “John Romita Interview: Spidey’s Man,” Comic Book Artist #6, fall 1999.