Marvel Bullpen 69

[Red Oak Kid]

For those of you who have never seen this or haven't seen it in a long time:

Marvel Bullpen 1969 (http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008/03/back-in-day-with-marvel-gang-1969-style.html)

[Sir Tim Drake]

Jean Thomas was really cute.

[scratchie]

Herb Trimpe looks like a Herb Trimpe drawing, even the way he's holding his head.

[Slam_Bradley]

Jean Thomas was really cute.

Jean Thomas was very cute. Though not as cute as Weezie Jones/Simonson.

[Senormac]

Ha ha.....Neal Adams looks like Wolfman Jack . Great post ROK

[MDG]

Stan looks a little like Ringo

[dan bailey]

Huh. Sam Grainger had a second career as Slim Whitman. The things I never knew ...

[Cherokee Jack]

Jean Thomas was really cute.

Did you ever see the Foto Funnies in NATIONAL LAMPOON from the early 70s. Jean (and Roy) were in some of those (if my faulty memory is correct.)

And yes, she was cute. Maybe still is.

[Cherokee Jack]

Hey, someone must've erased Vince Colletta's picture.

[Paradox]

Senormac notes the face fuzz:

Ha ha.....Neal Adams looks like Wolfman Jack .

I especially like "hippie Neal" juxtaposed against Dan Atkins "I'm part of NASA mission control circa 1963" look. =)

[benday-dot]

If this class of 69 photo were to be taken just a few years later I think the hippies, or long-hairs at least, would be able to claim a much larger piece of the bullpen. Thomas, Gerber, Starlin and Englehart I think, all eschewed the scisssors in those free-lovin' years.

[InfoBroker]

Some minor bits of additional information:

This set of photos from FF annual #7, was actually the second time Marvel did a "Bullpen" photo-set in the 1960s. The first time was in the 1964 Annual, Marvel Tales #1.

While Flo Steinberg had indeed left Marvel(it was in the spring of 1968 IIRC), Nancy Murphy (subscription department) was still working for Marvel in this timeframe, she was picture in the 1964 Marvel Tales set. Not sure why she was skipped over here.

Several of these 1969 pictures are reruns of the same photos from 1964. Paul Reinman, Don Heck and Sam Rosen to name three of them.

Vince Colletta was working full-time for DC comics by mid 1969. He is included in the 1964 set.

My memory banks recall the marriage of Jean Simek being mentioned in one of the Bullpen Bulletins pages, thus shifting her credit name to Jean Simek Izzo.

Jean Thomas is indeed cute, (as is Louise Simonson), but it should be noted that this photo does not do her justice. Her cuteness exceeds this photo considerably.

I also found the photo of Susan Lane to be very attractive. Of course the fact that I have a (signed on official Marvel Stationary) letter from her, praising a drawing that I sent to Marvel a few weeks prior to FF Annual #7 being distributed might be biasing my viewpoint a bit. Susan and Linda Fite also included a specially penned no-prise for me as well.

jb the "but be clear, no one is cuter that Marie Severin, it's just not possible" ib -

[Tetsuo_man]

A few years later and you'd see stan lee with a porn stache. seriously if you look at pictures of him from the early and mid seventies he looks like a seventites pornstar. let me just find an example...herehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Stan_Lee_1973.jpg/386px-Stan_Lee_1973.jpg

[DDM]

A few years later and you'd see stan lee with a porn stache. seriously if you look at pictures of him from the early and mid seventies he looks like a seventites pornstar. let me just find an example...herehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Stan_Lee_1973.jpg/386px-Stan_Lee_1973.jpg

Stan Lee's 70's appearance is representative of everyone who looked in the 1970's. Beards & mustaches were in. As was long hair. The 70's porn stars also looked like that too, but it was no one exclusive appearance.

[DDM]

For those of you who have never seen this or haven't seen it in a long time:

Marvel Bullpen 1969 (http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008/03/back-in-day-with-marvel-gang-1969-style.html)

The source for the 1969 bullpen is in Fantastic Four Annual #7:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/30949298416.7.GIF

[Tetsuo_man]

It's just the type of moustache. It reminds me of ron jeremy.

[DDM]

It's just the type of moustache. It reminds me of ron jeremy.

Ron Jeremy got his start in the 80's.

[Tetsuo_man]

actually the first porno he was in was shot in 79.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Stan Lee's 70's appearance is representative of everyone who looked in the 1970's. Beards & mustaches were in. As was long hair. The 70's porn stars also looked like that too, but it was no one exclusive appearance.

Athletes also looked like that in the '70s. The 1972-74 Oakland Athletics were known as the Mustache Gang.

Suddenly I'm glad I was born in the '80s. I escaped having to look at all those mustaches.

[MDG]

I suspected when I first saw it, but just found it online--The Johnny Craig picture is the same one from his EC Artist of the Issue bio.

http://www.kutprice.com/wst_page4.php?idx=2&file=images/jc.jpg&&ID2=tl3tne

[InfoBroker]

Did you ever see the Foto Funnies in NATIONAL LAMPOON from the early 70s. Jean (and Roy) were in some of those (if my faulty memory is correct.).

Very close CJ, very close indeed. You mean the Foto Funkies feature in Marvel's Crazy magazine of the mid 70s. It only lasted a couple of issues and was a direct parody of NL's Foto Funnies. The premise of which was a gal and two guys sitting in a bed, with the guys scheming to get the gal to take off her shirt.

Thanks for triggering my memory banks on that one. I think...

-jb the "I never did figure out who the other guy was" ib -

[Paradox]

I'm almost positive he means Nat Lamp's Foto Funnies. I recall reading an article or two where it's mentioned. Perhaps that inspired Foto Funkies?

Unless, is this one of those long ago debunked comic urban myths? I could swear I've seen posters who actually had them. rick, maybe?

[T GUy]

-jb the "I never did figure out who the other guy was" ib -

Yeah, it took Roy and his lawyers some time too...

[InfoBroker]

I'm almost positive he means Nat Lamp's Foto Funnies. I recall reading an article or two where it's mentioned. Perhaps that inspired Foto Funkies?[/I]

As I said, Marvel's Crazy Magazine feature, Foto Funkies "lasted a couple of issues and was a direct parody of NL's Foto Funnies."

No urban myth about that at all.

I suspected when I first saw it, but just found it online--The Johnny Craig picture is the same one from his EC Artist of the Issue bio.

Nice catch MDG. I thought the photo looked a bit too young for JC in that time frame as well.

I was also a bit suspect of the Jack Kirby picture being current. It not the same as the picture of him in the 1964 montage, but Jack either had just moved, or was about to move to California. Not sure how often he was visiting the offices in the spring of 1969.

Yeah, it took Roy and his lawyers some time too...

Did they reveal his identity, or put him in a suspect protection program?

-jb the ib -

[Senormac]

I know this is abit on the morbid side.....but how many of that bullpen group are still with us? Half maybe......? :frown:

[MDG]

I know this is abit on the morbid side.....but how many of that bullpen group are still with us? Half maybe......? :frown:

Well if it is half, it's the same percentage you'd get from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LetItBe.jpg

On the other hand you've got at least one person in there who's still with us who'd already been drawing comics for 30 years (Tuska) and a couple who are still working (John Severin, Palmer, Sinnott)