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Barry (Windsor) Smith pops up on pencils here and there. Steve Englehart begins writing the Beast solo stories in Amazing Adventures.

This change also allowed for the creation of characters like Luke Cage.Ĭreator notes: Gerry Conway is writing a lot of books. Now they can bust drug dealers and the like as well. In the past the sort of non-super crimes heroes like Spider-Man and Daredevil dealt with were robberies and muggings. The CCA revisions on drug depiction also allowed Marvel to focus more on street-level crime. These characters were initially stand-alone comics that didn't necessarily have anything to do with the Marvel Universe, but they were quickly incorporated. Revisions in the Comics Code allowed Marvel to expand its line into horror comics. Stan's focus going forward will be other media - 'new fields for Marvel to conquer in film, TV, books, and you-name-it-we'll-do-it!' Only Mavel could have made satire and sentimentality, relevance and ribaldry a part of the comix mystique.

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It was Marvel that first introduced heroes with human hang-ups Marvel that popularized guest-star appearances until you needed a scorecard to tell you who was who Marvel that dared create continued stories - and then forgot how to end them, so that they went on forever! It was Marvel who gave you a Bullpen Bulletins page where we can rap together like this Marvel who liberated the geniuses who bring you these epics from their shadow of anonymity, and billboarded the name of every writer, artist, and letterer until you know 'em almost as well as we do. Stan Lee steps down as EIC and hands the reigns over to Roy Thomas in the September Bullpen Bulletain, but it's obvious based on Stan's output that the change was in effect prior to this.

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