arrlaari.livejournal.com (arrlaari.livejournal.com) wrote in scans_daily, |
The scene: Marvel Comics, circa 1979. Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and veteran writer Jim Salicrup sit down to discuss upcoming plots…
SHOOTER: So, Jim, who’s Spider-Man going to fight in the next issue of Spidey Super Stories?
SALICRUP: I was thinking… Thanos.
SHOOTER: Who?
SALICRUP: Thanos, Lord of Evil! Thanos, matricide of Titan! Thanos! Who would court Death herself with the slaughter of a billion billion worlds as his dowry! Thanos! Who would bed his love on the bones of half the cosmos, the screams of the dying lending bittersweet harmony to his furious copulation! Thanos! THANOS!
SHOOTER: …Okay, what about the back-up story?