1. Now that Stan Lee is being eulogized far and wide, it's important to remember how marginal Stan Lee and his collaborators (Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko) were in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Did not know that. But the coolness factor and media attention sent the vibe that the company was on fire.
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Only because Marvel was limited to a small number of books they could distribute each month.
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That was something of a technicality. Magazine Management had a contract that it's books were printed by DC -- its direct rival. That capped the number of books Marvel could publish. As soon as Marvel got out from the contract, they soared past DC for good.
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It's 1964. The Beatles have landed. I read a Spiderman comic. I read a Superman comic. Superman seems so stiff to me. He does not fit in this new, explosive Beatles world. Spiderman does.
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Yeah, but the growth chart was ridiculous for Marvel.
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