Rolling Stone’s 1971 cover story on Marvel Comics (discussed here) is one of the best-known and most-referenced documents of the comic book industry in that era. It’s a glimpse inside Marvel at a seminal moment, from an era when comics weren’t often given serious consideration from established journalists. It’s not common knowledge, however, that Rolling Stone’s UK edition ran a feature on Marvel Comics two years earlier, in an issue dated October 18, 1969. Upon finding a copy, I was amazed to discover that the author of the article is Anthony Haden-Guest, a journalist who has since gone on to write bestsellers like True Colors: The Real Life Of The Art World and The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, And The Culture Of The Night. (He is also a renowned cartoonist, and the older...
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