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Did Roy Thomas lie about Wally Wood?
J David Spurlock
20 May 2017
re WALLACE WOOD & DAREDEVIL
FROM THE OFFICIAL MARVEL HISTORY BOOK,
75 YEARS OF MARVEL (Taschen, 2014)
by Roy Thomas
Patrick Ford: I guess Roy Thomas has never seen the interview with Wally Wood where Wood clearly describes how his assignments were reduced to layouts and inking after he insisted on being paid for writing.
J David Spurlock: these quotes indicate he has. "[Wood's] discomfort with the Marvel method" he is moving in the right direction...
J David Spurlock: to even acknowledge that any creators had "discomfort" over the "Marvel method," in the official Marvel history, is a serious move in the direction of historic accuracy over the regular sugar coated PR
Patrick Ford: Thomas says right there: "...preferring only to ink for the company." So if he's read the interview then he's telling an outright lie.
J David Spurlock: Elsewhere, Barry Pearl just said he wrote the caption.
Patrick Ford: Perhaps Barry Pearl never saw the interview? In any case the comments are written in a way which indicates that somewhere Wood said he was uncomfortable with the Marvel Method and as a result came to prefer only inking. Wood never said that anywhere (in fact there are hardly any interviews with Wood) and in the interview with Mark Evanier the comments by Wood clearly indicate that the inking assignments were not his idea.
WOOD: "I do remember that that was his way of dealing with me asking for writing money if I was pencilling. He had me ink other guys who didn't want to share the writing money. He said it was because the book was going monthly and he didn't think I could pencil and ink both but I think it was just because I wasn't going to write the book for nothing. "
Patrick Ford: WOOD: "I do remember that that was his way of dealing with me asking for writing money if I was pencilling. He had me ink other guys who didn't want to share the writing money. He said it was because the book was going monthly and he didn't think I could pencil and ink both but I think it was just because I wasn't going to write the book for nothing."
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