Writer: Iron Man. (break in testimony) [8], In 1980 and 1981, concurrent with the Hulk strip, Lieber contributed some degree of penciling on the daily and Sunday comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man until Fred Kida took over as regular penciler. Lambiek Comiclopedia. LARRY LIEBER: Okay. So I couldn't do that, I couldn't work. The media giant, which acquired Marvel in 2009, on Friday sued Larry Lieber, who helped create the characters Iron Man, Thor and Ant-Man, and the estates of several . "[10] There Lieber began illustrating comic books; his first known credit is penciling and inking the four-page story crime comics story "Cop on the Beat", by an unknown writer, in All True Crime #44 (cover-dated May 1951). Later, in 1958 he was fortunate to have the opportunity to. MR. TOBEROFF: Assumes facts. There was nothing about this most . I I wrote a few books, the first issue or the first couple issues, yes. LARRY LIEBER: Stan. He still gave me work, he didn't want to take work away, but they were putting out a few more books. . LARRY LIEBER: Thank me for Anthony Stark. View the profiles of people named Larry Lieber. No. I didn't speak to him. Q: What did you do after you finished writing the script for the first Ant-Man? date of birth. LARRY LIEBER: I could tell you, yeah, it was it was well, I remember the date. No. LARRY LIEBER: It was the same before. MR. TOBEROFF: Objection to form. [25], When Atlas went under in late 1975, Lieber received six months severance pay and spent time trying to devise a newspaper comic strip for syndication. LARRY LIEBER: No. LARRY LIEBER: Writing on the back, yes. LARRY LIEBER: No. Celia had one brother: Joseph Solomon. At this point, business was bad, and I tried to do what I could. I used to get names out of the back of the dictionary, from the biographical section where you have foreign names, Russian, this and that. "I was drawing, but I was slow. Son of Jacob Aaron Lieber and Celia (Solomon) Lieber. Q: Do you know who came up with the idea for Thor? Jeff Rovin came from Warren, and he knew nothing about color comics. Q: Who came up with the name Thor, the hero name? [3] When he was six months old, the family moved to The Bronx,[4] settling into at 1720 University Avenue, which Lee described as a one-bedroom, "third-floor apartment facing out back", with him and Larry sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch. Finally, you know, he did like it and I was allowed to write the script and I got paid for the script. '"[20] Under Lee's plotting, Lieber's eight Thor stories also introduced the Marvel characters Loki, Odin, and Balder, from the pantheon of Norse mythological gods; their home, Asgard; and Bifrost the Rainbow Bridge, which connected that realm to Earth. So at any rate finally I think at one point he got a little exasperated and he said, "I'm going to hire some of the old pros." LARRY LIEBER: They I was in the office, the Marvel office. LARRY LIEBER: Yes. So he did. They would have thought Stan Lee is sending over a spy or something you know. This I happen to remember. Q: Did Marvel provide you with any health insurance or health benefits during the time you worked there? My brother was back from the Service, he was just married and he moved out outside of New York to Long Island. Q: Okay. We're going to focus today on the period from 1958 to 1965, so that's fine. [20] For another series, starring the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four, Lieber co-created the longstanding supervillain the Wizard in Strange Tales #102 (Nov. MR. TOBEROFF: Objection to form. Stanley Martin (Stan) Lee formerly Lieber. I assumed, seeing a man walk out of the office and tear his artwork up, that or I thought probably they were rejected and he was annoyed or disgusted. I made that, which people know about. He is a writer, known for Iron Man (2008), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man (2015). Q: You also at times did artwork? I don't know. He was 86 when he starred in this movie. Husband of Joan (Boocock) Lee married 5 Dec 1947 in Reno, Nevada, United States. When he has made corrections, I have fortunately agreed with it. After the Great Depression, Jack had a hard time finding work, which made the family move from . That was the way I interpreted it anyway. It was the latter half of the 1960s when I became infatuated with Marvel Comics, among the favorites was Larry's Rawhide Kid. Iron Man, also known as Iron Man: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series based on Marvel Comics' superhero Iron Man.The series aired from 1994 to 1996 in syndication as part of The Marvel Action Hour, which packaged Iron Man with another animated series based on Marvel properties, the Fantastic Four, with one half-hour episode from each series airing back-to-back. Family (1) Were the scripts that you wrote for Iron Man, Ant-Man and Thor, were those Marvel style? I didn't hear anything, so I just that was my first assumption, but I didn't know. It didn't work out too well, and Jeff finally left angrily or something, and I had to take over all his books. Now, I knew nothing about black-and-white comics, right? LARRY LIEBER: The same way as the other. Q: Are you familiar with a comic called Iron Man? Q: Did he ever make changes to your stories or the scripts you would turn in? And usually for me, as I saw it, work wouldn't be rejected because they know who they're dealing with and they know what you can do. In 2008, he was one of two recipients of that year's Bill Finger Award, which annually honors one living and one deceased comics creator. Japanese Toilets, Star Trek: Picard Showrunner on Jurati Borg, "Real Borg" S03 Statuses. [6] Lee elsewhere described that move to a two-story, three-bedroom home at 1084 West Broadway as occurring in 1949,[7] when Larry would have been 17 or 18. What I didn't prefer was the style that was developing. Q: Do you recall '"[20] Under Lee's plotting, Lieber's eight Thor stories also introduced the Marvel characters Loki, Odin, and Balder, from the pantheon of Norse mythological gods; their home, Asgard; and Bifrost the Rainbow Bridge, which connected that realm to Earth. That was one area because I'm wanting to be an artist myself, and I thought I had a very good sense of the drama and what to put down, what to draw. Q: And do you recall that those words or something to that effect being on the back of every check you got from Marvel for that period from 1958 to '65? Q: And how did you come up with his name? They had one son: Stanley Martin Lieber. Jack might have been I think Jack was the first. Read more. Q: So you got paid for the script but you weren't paid for your redoing the plot a number of times? Or else I I either brought it to the office and handed it to Stan, who must have sent it, or else I sent it. Hellstrom is considered one of the most powerful Hell-Lords in Marvel Comics, and can cause excruciating pain to any living being through contact with their life force. Discover Larry Lieber's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Celia married Jacob Aaron Lieber on month day 1920, at age 26 at marriage place, New York. I don't remember the year, but I obtained them when they were discarded. Thanks to family connections, he got a job at the publishing company Timely. He was putting out color comics, and he was also going to put out black-and-white comics like Warren and Marvel. MS. SINGER: That's okay. LARRY LIEBER: Uh-huh. I put in a voucher. But now it was impossible. Jury finds Harvard professor Charles Lieber guilty of hiding ties to China Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard's chemistry department, has been convicted of lying to the university and the . "[23] He considered seeking work at rival DC Comics, as some other Marvel writers and artists did, but found, "I was the only one who could never do that because that was the price for Stan being my brother. I believe I did. Rachel (Lieber) Friedlender 01 Jan 1912 . LARRY LIEBER: I remember well, I knew I had to do it fast, and the only thing I remember a little more vividly is with I think it was Jack Kirby where he would say Jack needs work and he was concerned about getting it to him. Don Rico, writing as "N. Korok", followed for a two-issue stint. I didn't want to give a light tone to it. LARRY LIEBER: It seems that way. Suddenly on Saturday, March 22, 2008 at his home. Join Facebook to connect with Larry Liebe and others you may know. [21], After the debut Iron Man story in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963), however, Lee replaced Lieber with Robert Bernstein, writing as "R. Berns", for the next seven issues before Lee took over the reins himself for a few stories. MS. SINGER: Objection. Lee then took over as regular writer for the next few years. Cross the Rainbow Bridge into the eternal realm of Asgard, and meet Thor's royal family for the first time! Stan, I guess. I didn't have any steady work then. I said, 'I'm not really a writer.' Right here at FameChain. Q: Who came up with the ideas for the characters that would be in the story? LARRY LIEBER: I sent it to the artist who yeah. For others, I don't think that was the case. Q: Okay. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. As Lieber, in a 1999 interview, described his experience as editor: The template below (Block quote) is being considered for deletion. LARRY LIEBER: I didn't hear. Since I knew how to draw, I'd think, 'Oh, this shot will have a guy coming this way this shot will have a guy looking down on him,' and later I'd sit at the typewriter and type it up. And at that LARRY LIEBER: No. Larry Lieber Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Larry D. Lieber (born October 26, 1931) is an American comic book artist and writer, and the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee.Lieber is best known for scripting the first appearances of the Marvel characters Iron Man, Thor and Ant-Man; for his long stint both writing and drawing the Marvel . It would be panel by panel. But he always used it. Martin unfortunately put Jeff in charge of all the color comics and put me in charge of the black-and-white books. (break in testimony) And I also came up with his hammer. [8], In 1980 and 1981, concurrent with the Hulk strip, Lieber contributed some degree of penciling on the daily and Sunday comic strip The Amazing Spider Man until Fred Kida took over as regular penciler. Stan was born in New York City, to Celia (Solomon) and Jack Lieber, a dress cutter. [4], Lee wrote in his autobiography that when Larry was a teenager, the boys' mother died and Lieber went to live with his brother and his sister-in-law, Joan, prompting the trio's move to Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. Larry Lee is the younger brother of Stan Lee and was born on October 26th, 1931. The award was presented July 25, 2008, during the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony at Comic-Con International. Earlier today we reported that the heirs of artist Steve Ditko had . Q: And where did you come up with that name? After a while, I did better and I and I enjoyed it. Right here at FameChain. "They needed superhero-reprint covers, and I could do them somewhat in Kirby's style. My only experience was in the color comics. Since I knew how to draw, I'd think, 'Oh, this shot will have a guy coming this way this shot will have a guy looking down on him,' and later I'd sit at the typewriter and type it up. Changes in not in the basic story or anything, because I knew how to tell a story as well as anybody, I think, in terms of sequentially and what to draw, what to tell the artist. I was just a kid and kids liked comics at that time. He remembered writers from the past. So he hired somebody and then the next week when I came back to him he said, "Larry, you know something, you're no good, but you're better than these other guys". Lieber then succeeded Kida on the daily strip in 1986. MR. TOBEROFF: Objection. Larry Lieber, interview by Daniel Best http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com.au/2007lerry%20Lieber%20Geni/08/look "It [comic book publishing] was in my family really. It was always check. Sometimes if there was a lot of action, you might play up that panel and only have five, let's say, one panel across. Because if I had been, I might not have been so concerned about my expenses. How, how did you come to write the first script for Iron Man? Solicited for comment, celebrity hairstylist Jose Eber said he "would have made it sexier.". "I still wanted to be an artist and do comics, but I had in mind to eventually become an illustrator," he said in 1999. And where he would discuss a story or a plot with the artist and the artist would write it not write, I'm sorry. He said, "Larry if you want, you can write The Hulk and draw it". Q: Do you know who, after you turned in the script, do you know who the artist was that drew Thor? LARRY LIEBER: They had about three stories in the magazine, drawn by different people. MR. TOBEROFF: Sometimes if you answer too rapidly, I would be talking over you. And I don't remember the specific story, but I was working on something and maybe a zombie book or a horror book or some such thing, and I I was given I had to make up a story. So that was my first victory if you want to call that a victory, right. That was it. Lieber is now 89 years old and worked on the earliest comics versions of Thor, Iron Man, and . And he told me the plot, you know, somehow I got synopsis, and I and I wrote it. LARRY LIEBER: I always wrote the script first, except later on, I Marvel sued comic book artist Larry Lieber and the estates of artists Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Gene Colan, and Don Rico on Friday, seeking court orders that the artists can't terminate its copyright . Abraham Riesman's new biography of Stan Lee takes readers to Romania, the homeland of Lee's ancestors, and to the small New York apartment of Lee's brother, Larry Lieber, for an at times . MS. SINGER: Objection. As Lieber, in a 1999 interview, described his experience as editor: When I went there, Martin put out two kinds of books. I was unsure of myself just sitting down to write a script. I did my freelance work there. I'm just objecting for the record. Jack Kirby would go on to write and pencil the Thor portion of Journey into Mystery with dialogue by Lieber and Robert Bernstein until issue #90 when . I think I did. LARRY LIEBER: Well, this must have been a Hulk story and I have the originals at home. Q: You mentioned that Stan would give you the synopsis or the plot. LARRY LIEBER: I don't remember whether I initiated it or Stan offered it to me. I did a few inventory stories [in the comic books] or different things, until finally they needed somebody, an artist, on [the] Spider-Man [comic] strip, which Fred Kida had been doing until he retired. [16], Marvel superheroes and the Rawhide Kid[edit] Under Stan Lee plots, Lieber would go on to script the debut origin stories and other early appearances of the superheroes Thor (co-created with artist Jack Kirby) in Journey into Mystery, Iron Man (co-created with Kirby and Don Heck) in Tales of Suspense, and Ant-Man (co-created with Kirby) in Tales to Astonish. Q: Now, as a freelancer, if your work was rejected, you wouldn't be paid for that, would you? I didn't think about it at all. After that, after the Hulk, Stan left. LARRY LIEBER: No. I don't think so, LARRY LIEBER: No, they all came from Stan Lee. Q: Did you have any conversations or any interactions with Jack Kirby about the Thor book? Always check. [1], Lieber also penciled The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #4-5 (1967-1968), the latter introducing in flashback the late parents of protagonist Peter Parker; co-wrote and co-penciled the first solo Doctor Doom feature story, in Marvel Super-Heroes #20 (May 1969);[11] and did occasional other work including, for Magazine Management's men's magazines, several stories of the bawdy "nudie-cutie" comedy feature "Pussycat". As he notes, this material is sure to be dissected at the atomic level for years to come. Did you get paid for all the work you did for Marvel? Q: Did you come up with any of the names in Thor? LARRY LIEBER: Well, when I started, as I said, Stan said to me, you know, I said I'm not a writer. [18] I needed someone to write the new feature, which would hopefully be Marvel's fourth winner in our little superhero sweepstakes. Well, if it was seven-page story, I would have each page what was on the page. I I liked it was an opportunity for me to write and draw the same strip, and that appealed to me. Q: Okay. Then you would bring it to the office? These were all scripts in advance [that Kirby would illustrate]. Q: And where did you get the name Uru hammer? Larry Lieber. But I don't yeah, yeah, Stan. LARRY LIEBER: The civilian name of Don Blake I made up. [4] Already interested in art and drawing by this time, he attended George Washington High School there. I was working during the day and I went to [the Pratt Institute art school, in Brooklyn, in] the evening. Partners of Stan Lee. LARRY LIEBER is one of the more overlooked, underrated and as such forgotten men from the Silver Age of Marvel comics. He hired Lieber to be editor of the Atlas black-and-white comics-magazines, and additionally hired Warren Publishing veteran Jeff Rovin to edit the color comic-book line, which soon fell under Lieber's editorship.[25]. Q: What is the what is the instance you can recall where you had to redo something and weren't paid for that? I don't recall. Family: Father- Jack Lieber Mother- Celia Lieber Brother- Larry Lieber Sister- Not Known: Religion: Judaism: Ethnicity/Race: Jewish: Address (Fan Mail) Pow! Q: When you received were you always paid by check from Marvel? Though he gave up the role of regular artist in Spring 1979 and the role of regular writer in mid-1982, he would still write and draw the occasional installment until the strip's end in September 1982. LARRY LIEBER: What did a script look like? Loving father of Taylor. Larry Lieber is an American comic book artist, known for drawing Marvel's 'Rawhide Kid' and the newspaper strips of the 'Incredible Hulk' and 'The Amazing Spider-Man'. [29], The Hulk was kind of popular on television, and so I drew The [Incredible] Hulk. Stan Lee was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics. Aftre a while, I'd just go to the typewriter. "[10] There Lieber began illustrating comic books; his first known credit is penciling and inking the four-page crime comics story "Cop on the Beat", by an unknown writer, in All True Crime #44 (cover-dated May 1951). Larry Lieber (est. LARRY LIEBER: Yeah. So that's why I did that. Father of Jan Lee. Larry Lieber Signing fee - $40. LARRY LIEBER: I always wrote the script. LARRY LIEBER: Yes. 1930s - living) 0 references . For the first year or two, you know, I was learning. So I could never do that. So I came up with that. I know I got paid. And as time went on, he had fewer to make."[14]. And as time went on, he had fewer to make."[14]. And what what did he provide you with or what did he ask you to do? with . Larry Lieber is an American comic book artist and writer best known as co-creator of the Marvel Comics superheroes Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man; for his long stint both writing and drawing the Marvel Western Rawhide Kid; and for illustrating the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man from 1986 to September 2018. Q: And your brother is? Martin unfortunately put Jeff in charge of all the color comics and put me in charge of the black-and-white books. I used to like to draw and copy them and so on. Or perhaps the freelancers had a different hour or different day, I don't know. [11] This included creating the names of their respective alter egos: Don Blake, Tony Stark, and Henry Pym. Celia Lieber (born Solomon) was born in 1894, at birth place, to Zanfer Solomon and Sophia Solomon. From 1974 to 1975, he was editor of Atlas/Seaboard Comics. You're doing a little production work. I think he went out to Hollywood or out to California and that's when Jim Shooter came in [as Marvel editor-in-chief] and took over. I'm The content of this story seems to correspond with "To Clone a Hulk," the fan-generated title for the storyline which ran from October 30 to December 18, 1978 according to the . a little space for myself or something, and I wanted to do a little drawing again. Q: Who was responsible for giving you the assignment to write a particular script or a particular His final strip ran September 8, 2018. LARRY LIEBER: I think I wrote the first the first script. With Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Tom Brady. 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[8], In a 2010 interview Lieber described how he collaborated with Lee on The Amazing Spider-Man strip: "I get a full script. 5 Dec 1947. MS. SINGER: 19 out of 20 19 out of 30. Marvel Comics founder and longtime publisher Martin Goodman had left Marvel in 1972, having sold the company in 1970, and launched this new company in June 1974 to go head-to-head with Marvel and DC Comics. Q: When he would give you an assignment, did you have a deadline or something that you had to get it back by a certain time? LARRY LIEBER: Yes. So that was my first victory if you want to call that a victory, right. [8], Lieber, who credits Lee as a good editor, writer and writing teacher, said his brother made very few editorial changes to Lieber's scripts. [27][28] Lieber said Lee gave a rare compliment on the Hulk strip, telling his brother, "[I]t's very good. He continues to pencil the Spider-Man daily strip as of 2014. Q: Moving to a different subject, you testified earlier that it was your recollection that there were legends on the back of checks you received from Marvel for your freelance work? I didn't want to hear something like that." Q: We don't have to worry about I'm focusing you, I'm sorry, I'm focusing you on the period 1958 to 1965. Q: What was your involvement? View the profiles of people named Larry Liebe. Lieber largely left superheroes to write and pencil what would be his signature series, the Marvel Western Rawhide Kid, beginning with issue #41 (Aug. 1964) and continuing through 1973 (after which it became a reprint title). Lieber largely left superheroes to write and pencil what would be his signature series, the Marvel Western Rawhide Kid, beginning with issue #41 (Aug. 1964) and continuing through 1973 (after which it became a reprint title). [15], Lieber's earliest, tentatively confirmed pre-superhero Marvel script is for the six-page Don Heck-illustrated "I Am the Beast-Man" in Strange Tales #77 (Oct. 1960), and his first confirmed is the 13-page "I Led the Strange Search for Manoo", penciled by Kirby and inked by Dick Ayers, in Amazing Adventures #2 (July 1961). Since 2021 the record price for this artist at auction is 650 USD for Lieber Larry - The Amazing Spider-Man, sold at . But there's another person who deserves to be in the conversation, even in a smaller capacity: Lee's brother, Larry Lieber. [23], With the end of his run on Rawhide Kid, Lieber found little further Marvel work. [As well i]t was simply too risky for me not to be grooming some other writers to fill the break if necessary. (At this point there was a break where testimony was taken 'off the record' at the requests of Marvels lawyer. LARRY LIEBER: Yes. He was putting out color comics, and he was also going to put out black-and-white comics like Warren and Marvel. As Stan Lee recalled, in his trademark jocular style, in 1974, Heretofore, I had written all of the origin tales of each new character, as well as the subsequent follow-up stories in every series. No, I I, no, it it came when Jack moved on to doing super-heroes. Q: Do you know what would happen to the script after Stan went over it and made whatever changes? On the checks you received for your freelance work, did they have language stating that your work was work made for hire? MS. SINGER: No worries. Q: Do you have any recollection that it stopped at some point? [8], Lieber, who credits Lee as a good editor, writer and writing teacher, said his brother made very few editorial changes to Lieber's scripts. Change this or change that.". Q: What was Ant-Man's name? Q: You can answer. Yes. No. "They needed superhero-reprint covers, and I could do them somewhat in Kirby's style. Jeff Rovin came from Warren, and he knew nothing about color comics. Q: And how did you come to write the first script? LARRY LIEBER: A script. LARRY LIEBER: Not me. I wanted to leave, so I left. LARRY LIEBER: No. Stan had said he had an idea for a character, he wanted to write the story and for one of the books and told me or gave me, you know, a synopsis and I went home and wrote it. Assumes facts. Please join us in collaborating on LIEBER family trees. MS. SINGER: Lawyer stuff. Stan's Family Marvel Jack Lieber and Celia Lieber - Parents. I did a few inventory stories [in the comic books] or different things, until finally they needed somebody, an artist, on [the] Spider-Man [comic] strip, which Fred Kida had been doing until he retired. Bryan Hitch Still Drawing The Authority- But For What? What did you do next with the script? IT GOT THREE . [8] His first superhero work, the first appearance of Marvel's Thor in Journey into Mystery #83 (Aug. 1962), introduced one of the mainstays of the Marvel Universe, the mystical metal "uru", of which Thor's hammer Mjolnir is made. Larry Lieber is Stan Lee's younger brother and wrote Marvel books in the sixties such as Iron Man, Thor and Rawhide Kid. It didn't appeal to me. [11], Hulk and Spider-Man comic strips[edit] In 1978, Lieber began penciling and sometimes inking the new daily and Sunday comic strip The Incredible Hulk,[27] written by Lee and syndicated by the Register and Tribune Syndicate. I don't recall anything until the book came out and I got a copy of it and saw. And so, no, not that I recall. They could go from one to another, and some of the artists would actually play, you know, one company against another in the sense of saying, "Oh, I've been offered more money there," so if the art director wanted to keep him, he had to, you know, give him give him a little more. He is a writer, known for Iron Man (2008), Ant-Man (2015) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). imported from Wikimedia project. LARRY LIEBER: Well, either I sent it to the person. Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor and others. Jay Lieber, beloved husband of Judy. LARRY LIEBER: Yes, Stan Lee. Frank Lieber (Lieber family) Frank Lieber served as president of the District 108 School Board in Highland Park during the 1970s, and raised funds for Highland . No. Dr. Lawrence Lieber, MD is an Orthopedic Surgery Specialist in Downers Grove, IL and has over 42 years of experience in the medical field. Also my uncle was in it and a cousin of ours owned the company. Now, I don't know if I found "Uru" someplace or I just made it up or whatever. [27], The Hulk was kind of popular on television, and so I drew The [Incredible] Hulk. Lieber also wrote and penciled two Spider-Man stories, in Web of Spider-Man #21 and 25 (Dec. 1986, April 1987). Other Formats: Paperback . Larry Lieber was born in Manhattan, New York City, the second child of Romanian-Jewish immigrant parents Celia (ne Solomon) and Jack Lieber, and the brother of Stanley Martin Lieber, later known as Marvel Comics editor and impresario Stan Lee. LARRY LIEBER: No. Born 28 Dec 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. Lieber, by now living in the Tudor City apartment complex in Manhattan, began freelancing[14] regularly for the nascent Marvel Comics, "writing stories for Jack [Kirby] to draw",[12] referring to the artist who had co-created Captain America for the company in 1940 and had recently returned for a long, exclusive stint in which Kirby would co-create many signature Marvel characters in the Silver Age of Comics. As Stan Lee recalled, in his trademark jocular style, in 1974, Heretofore, I had written all of the origin tales of each new character, as well as the subsequent follow-up stories in every series. Q: Do you know what Milly's last name was? 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