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Ted Downum
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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.
Edited by Jonathan Kaye on 21 August 2025 at 3:39pm
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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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Josh Goldberg
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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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John Byrne
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It was basically one large room with a reception desk by the front door and one large cubicle with four or five drawing boards. Opposite them was a desk for the production manager, in front of an alcove piled high with distributors bundles. In front of the only windows two smaller offices had been built for Stan and Roy. It was quite a shock, since I had visited the DC offices that morning, and they were spread wide over two floors, looking and feeling very much like an ad agency.
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Matt Reed
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So Marvel essentially retained that scrappy upstart feeling well into the ‘70s. Fascinating! Like most here, I imagined big, sprawling offices with many artists, writers and editors all in one central location albeit with space enough to do their jobs.
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Brian Rhodes
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It Byrnes my butt when Irish names are misspelled/mispronouned by the Brianless.
You poor, sweet bastard. You must get a lot of "Brains", in written form, especially. I do. But do you also have to contend with "O'Nells" and "O'Niles"?
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Shaun Barry
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Re: original topic title..
To paraphrase: "As God as my witness, I thought those Sea Monkeys were real."
Edited by Shaun Barry on 29 August 2025 at 8:06pm
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Brian ONeill
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Brain Roads...I mean, Brian Rhodes: You poor, sweet bastard. You must get a lot of "Brains", in written form, especially. I do. But do you also have to contend with "O'Nells" and "O'Niles"?
Don't think I ever got O'Nile, but I do remember some middle school assignment where we corrected each other's work, and for some reason we had to write the name of the kid who would be making the corrections before handing it over. The kid who had my paper spelled my name, yes, 'Brain O'Nell'. The kid's name was 'Amilcar Naef', a name that was always spelled and pronounced flawlessly...by him.
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