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Not just Kirby: Wood, Everett, Adkins and Brunner
27 June 2017
Wood wrote his stories, but was not paid for the writing
J David Spurlock
Example of Wallace "Wally" Wood's plot notes and layouts for Daredevil #9, 1965. Though rudimentary, the storytelling is SO complete, anyone should be able to easily see why "Marvel Method artists" Kirby, Ditko and Wood became rightfully disgruntled with Stan for taking full writing credit for so many stories he only dialoged.
June 20
more margin notes (writing the story without pay), this time from Bill Everett
Patrick Ford
Extraordinary page from SUB-MARINER #51(1972) by Bill Everett.
The script was credited to Mike Friedrich although Everett's distinctive border notes escaped being completely trimmed.
Everett received a plot credit on the following issue and then took over the writing entirely with issue #53. Everett's short run was my favorite Marvel comic book at the time.
March 11, 2018
This time it's Dan Adkins writing the story without pay
J David Spurlock
A lot of plotting here from Dan Adkins (whose Wood influence is very obvious). X-Men #34 "War -- In a World of Darkness!" Page 4.
"no scripts, write your own"
June 24, 2018
This is what Frank Brunner thought of writing for no pay: he hated the Marvel Method and left
Patrick Ford
Brunner was one of those guys who at first blindly accepted the Marvel Method. I guess they thought playing Jack and Stan would be fun.
It almost never turned out that way. After a short time most of the "artists" realized they were being cheated. This also resulted in a lot of bad blood aired in the COMICS JOURNAL [51].
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