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This is long but worth the read…..
Back in 1985, the first comic I worked on was cancelled, so after a few months of being a ‘professional’ comic artist I was unemployed. I frantically sent out my recent work to find another job.
One of the people I sent my work to was editor/writer Roy Thomas . He was the FIRST person to take over most of the books being written by Stan Lee at Marvel (titles like The Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, and the Avengers). Roy called me and told me the sad news that his current artist Don Newton had suddenly passed away.
Don worked at both Marvel and for DC Comics on books like the ‘Phantom’, Batman and Green Lantern (just to name a few).
It was a tragic passing of a great man, but it meant that a comic book was without an artist. Roy asked if I wanted to help out for a few months while he looked for a regular artist to take over the book and I was glad to get work again.
If you look in the back pages DC Comics Infinity Inc.’ issue #13, you’ll see a pin-up I did to introduce readers the ‘newcomer’. The next issue (#14), I was credited with being a “guest artist”, then halfway through drawing that issue, it happened…
I got my first full comic book gig.
Mr. Thomas said the person he thought was going to take over the book, had just bailed on him and wondered if I’d be interested in taking over INFINITY INC. full-time…with a pay increase too!
The very next day, after getting that full-time job, I was on a walk with my girlfriend, Wanda. We stopped and I got down on my knee and asked her to marry me. Her reaction wasn’t what I was expecting as she screamed in horror! I didn’t think living with me would be THAT bad…but a few moments later she told me a huge grasshopper had been sitting on my shoulder and right after asking her to marry me, the insect had jumped right at her. After calming down she took my hand and said “I would love to be your wife.”
And she still is to this day.
Thank you comic books.
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