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[Editor's note: the full interview is here: http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/02stanroy.html] Mark Mayerson 10 October 2016 Michael Hill: Thomas helps Lee "remember" collaborating with Kirby on Fin Fang Foom, and Lee had nothing to do with it (Mike Vassallo says no signature, no contribution). Romita "remembers" Lee collaborating on the '50s superhero revival; Lee remembers none of it and in fact had nothing to do with it but is pleased to take the credit. Thomas actually worded his question pretty deviously... Roy: You probably didn't write full scripts for Jack for -Fin Fang Foom.- The false memory syndrome was in the same interview... Roy: By Fantastic Four #1, you had developed what later came to be called -the Marvel style.- But you were doing this all along for some monster stories, some time before this. How far back does that go? Stan: You mean just doing synopses for the artists? Was I doing them before Marvel? Roy: I know that you did it for Fantastic Four. [Stan's synopsis for F.F. #1 is printed in Alter Ego, Vol. 2, #2, backing this issue of CBA.] So I figured with Jack as the artist- and maybe Ditko, too- in these minor stories that you mostly wrote, along with Larry Lieber, you must have been doing it since the monster days. Stan: You know something, Roy? Now that you say it, that's probably true; but I had never thought of that. I thought that I started it with the Fantastic Four, but you're probably right. Michael Hill: "You know what, Roy? I know we agreed to cover what's in the script from the lawyers, but I like your on-the-fly embellishments! Don't print that part." Patrick Ford: An unguarded moment from 1981.

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