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Ted Downum
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Posted: 20 August 2025 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Trevor Smith: If it makes you feel any better, Ted, I think that was a
fairly common picture of the Bullpen in many young readers
heads. I know it was mine!

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That does make me feel better, Trevor. Thanks!
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Jonathan Kaye
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When I first visited Marvel, in ‘71, I was shocked to find the whole office was maybe 500 square feet!

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Wow.

As a kid, I assumed Byrne was BEERN, and Ben's Alicia was ALICE-uh.


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Doug Centers
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It was John Buy-urn for I don't know how long for me. The comedian John Byner didn't help any with that either.
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Brian ONeill
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It Byrnes my butt when Irish names are misspelled/mispronouned by the Brianless.
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John Byrne
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I guess it could have been worse. My mother’s family name was HULME (Welsh). When her father was a POW in the Great War, the Germans insisted on pronouncing it HULL-ME.
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Any confusion I had about the pronunciation of "Sub-Mariner" was cleared up for me by JB, when he had Headhunter meet Namor for the first time.
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Dave B Stewart
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When I first visited Marvel, in ‘71, I was shocked to find the whole office was maybe 500 square feet!

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I've heard you say many times that it wasn't as you'd pictured, but 500 sq ft?  Wow, that's small!
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