“Did you know Stan Lee initially wanted to call Marvel’s original and still greatest creation the FF, “The Fabulous Four”? No kidding, everything that we know today as Marvel Comics might have been built on a flamboyantly gay epithet if then-publisher Martin Goodman had not prevailed and made Stan change it to The Fantastic Four. One by decision, one by murder most foul. The two teams most responsible for the culture explosion of the 60’s and 70’s were now irrevocably split- never to be put together.
He was also known as the passion and wit behind the cultural eruption of the 60-70’s, and his death ended the Love generation. Lennon had been the driving force behind the skiffle band that became the Beatles, and a half of the greatest songwriting team in history. David Mark Chapman assassinated John Lennon in front of the Dakota mansion where Lennon lived with his wife Yoko Ono. If Jack’s optimism and dreams were shattered by the downfall of the Lord of Light production, then a whole generation’s faith and hope died on a dreary Dec. We’re honored to be able to publish Stan Taylor’s Kirby biography here in the state he sent it to us, with only the slightest bit of editing.
