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Rebecca Jansen
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How important was he? His name comes up among people who worked at Marvel in the 1970s. I basically only know he connected a lot of people and got them in the door a little at least. He edited the Foom! mag and contributed to the Nostalgia Illustrated magazine Marvel published for awhile. He did some inking, and sadly he died in in late 1982.
I found this blog entry by Paul Kupperberg to be about the best thing available on-line...
https://kupps.malibulist.com/2013/03/06/duffys-tavern/
Scott Edelman and Jim Shooter also credit him for getting them (back in Shooter's case) into comics and into Marvel.
Some Duffy inking here...
http://scottedelman.livejournal.com/272562.html
I'd like to know more assuming there is more. It's too bad he didn't get a longer run and is not well known by fans today.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 21 February 2018 at 8:49pm
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Brian O'Neill
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Vohland had an almost 'Forrest Gump'-like moment, when, in the early '80s encouraged his roommate, Steven Grant, to submit some series ideas to Marvel, one of which eventually became the 1985 PUNISHER mini-series(Grant typed the script on Vohland's typewriter).
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Mark Haslett
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I have his autograph on a photostat enlargement he did of the original cover art for X-Men 104.
I had a childish jealousy of his place in Rog 2000 comics.
Reading Paul's post about Duffy makes me keenly wish we had him longer.
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Cool!
Duffy's Tavern was a radio program if I remember right. Before my time... though maybe with all the vintage radio shows in MP3 now I could go and hear one or two.
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All I know of Dufy's Tavern was that Duffy was always an 'absent' character, and the actual main character was Archie, the manager, answering the phone in each episode with 'Duffy's Tavern, Duffy ain't here!'(Among the numerous actors who played Archie was Alan Reed, some years before he was 'Fred Flintstone').
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John Byrne
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I had a childish jealousy of his place in Rog 2000 comics.••• How did you know he was not a fictional character?
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It's a fine line between fact and fiction on this Comic Reader cover circa 1977... (Duffy V. referenced)...
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I had a childish jealousy of his place in Rog 2000 comics.
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How did you know he was not a fictional character?
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I first read Rog 2000 when the Pacific Comics collection came out and it explained the creative backstory, and I was 11.
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I recall seeing Duffy's name from time to time, but never knew much about him -- cool to hear that he's a fellow Hoosier . . . never heard about the "Indiana comics mafia" before. If I had known about that when I was a kid, that might have changed my career trajectory -- always wanted to get into comics, just never felt that I could given that I wasn't in New York City.
I knew Layton was a fellow Hoosier, but I never knew about the apparent Hoosier influence on comics in the late '70s and early '80s (when I was coming of age and heading off to my college studies).
Cool stuff. I'm mourning Duffy's passing. Liked his inks a lot from what I saw in the links provided, seems like a talented guy taken from us way too soon.
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