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Nov 30, 2023 · He said, “Well, Roy Thomas has just come up with a different idea, and if you want to work with him on it let’s see what he thinks.” …Well okay, poor old Don Heck got tossed into something else. He didn’t lose the day’s work but he got tossed off Captain Marvel which he didn’t really care about anyway. Gil Kane and I worked on this.
May 22, 2018 · The early creative history of “Avengers” is more akin to planetary formation than the typical production process of a 1960s Marvel comic. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee smashed the necessary solar debris into a bubbling molten blob but then they quickly left the terraforming process to Don Heck and Roy Thomas. I wouldn’t characterize Jack Kirby ...
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May 31, 2023 · The X-Men #40–42, 1968, by Roy Thomas and Dan Atkins/Werner Roth/Ross Andru/Don Heck. X-Men: Marvels Snapshots one-shot, 2020, by Jay Edidin and Tom Reilly
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Zach Rabiroff: Alternate history is a genre that has a long and storied past, going back far beyond Marvel Comics, of course. Thinking back to your formative years, before you became a writer, what was the first alternate history or alternate reality story that struck your fancy? Roy Thomas: I don’t recall when I first encountered the idea, but I d...
Rabiroff: In 1977, you launched the What If…? series at Marvel, and wrote its first two issues, followed by another 15 over the next two decades. What led you to pitch the series at that time? What was the story of its genesis? Thomas: Having fairly recently left the editor-in-chief job, I wanted to find a way to write salable comics without having...
Rabiroff: Many What If…?stories (both by yourself and your successors) took as their inspiration some of the hidden corners and forgotten minutia of Marvel continuity. Was it always your intention to use the series as a means to explore those corners, or was it just a happy accident? Is there something about comics continuity you find intriguing as...
Because the two things we love most at ComicsXF are our loyal readers and a good top 5 list, we asked Roy Thomas to tell us his five favorite What If…? Stories from his time at Marvel. Here, in no particular order, are his picks for the best of the could-have-beens:
Jan 26, 2021 · Writer: Roy Thomas Penciler: Jack Sparling. The X-Men fight the Warlock, who claims to be the real Merlin and an immortal mutant. (But years later is revealed to be neither, in Incredible Hulk #210). Nothing at all. The X-Men are fighting a Thor villain this month. X-Men #31 (April 1967) Writer: Roy Thomas Penciler: Werner Roth
Jul 21, 2020 · Roy William Thomas Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee’s first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. Alex Grand and Jim Thompson join former Marvel writer and second Editor-In-Chief of the Marvel Age after Stan Lee about his origins circa 1965-1974. Roy discusses how he left his job as a history teacher ...
“Into the Crimson Cosmos!” -- 20 pages written by Roy Thomas; pencils by Werner Roth; inks by John Tartaglione; the original version of this cover, by Gil Kane, had the Outcast as villain, but was rejected by the Comics Code as being too frightening, so the Outcast was replaced by Juggernaut’s face (likely a Werner Roth stat with John Romita touch-ups).; published by Marvel Comics; $0.12 ...
