1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 While destroying hundreds of pages of bad poetry I scribbled as a teenager, I made a few surprising discoveries which cause me to reminisce about my poem &quot;Ode on Comic Book Company Loyalty,&quot; written 18 days after I was hired by Marvel Comics, my extremely rough sketch for the second Scarecrow splash page, my team-up with Quicksilver and 7-Eleven to freeze your brain with Slurpees during the summer of 1975, Tony Isabella's heavy edit on my early &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Avengers&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; script assist (and why we should all be grateful), my forgotten horror pitches bounced by Marvel in 1974, and much more. Why Not Say What Happened? https://sites.libsyn.com/549812 <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/34807190/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/183290935