{"id":5285,"date":"2014-11-01T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2014-11-01T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T16:41:51","slug":"marvels-25-anniversary-2020-and-jim-shooter-in-the-letters-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5285","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s 25th Anniversary, 20\/20, and Jim Shooter in the Letters Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading Michael Golden’s great 80’s Marvel Vietnam War comic, The ‘Nam<\/em>–something I should really devote a whole blog post to when I’m done–and I’ve been fortunate enough to get a hold of the actual issues, rather than the collected edition. In addition to having the original coloring, the issues also obviously include non-story material like ads and the letters page. The second issue (cover dated January, 1987) contains this fairly interesting notice from Jim Shooter in the letters page–click through for a bigger version:<\/p>\n

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I was surprised to see the term “co-creator” used so matter-of-factly here… and kind of surprised to see this subject addressed at all, as there’s a long history, even in 1987, of articles and other puff pieces on Marvel that either implicitly or directly claim that Stan Lee “created” the characters that he in fact co-created with folks like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.\u00a0\u00a0You can still find the 20\/20 segment on Marvel’s 25th anniversary that Shooter is addressing:<\/p>\n