It saddens me that he seems to have spent a long while blaming JB for his departure. An editor's job is to look out for the well-being of the book and the company, and sometimes that means making changes. I wish things might have been different, but that's not JB's fault or cross to bear. 

Hearing things like this, especially so long afterward and when the speaker isn't around to say anything, can pull up a lot of hurts. I'm sorry that this resurfaced because it ought to lie in the past. 

MHO.

John Byrne took what Dave and Chris had created and took it to the next level, with his attractive artwork and air-tight plotting.

It is regrettable that Dave felt threatened by JB's part in the success of a title in which they both played a significant part. Art is not a competition, but life can be and we are all human.

I certainly don't mean to slight fantastic designers like Neal Adams, Jack Kirby, or JB, but Cockrum had that special flair that made his costumes very pleasing to the eye.

The favorite members of the new X-Men, the best of the Legion of Super-Heroes, his own Futurians, the gorgeous Ms. Marvel revamp, and I always loved El Aguila!  Just a ton of wonderful designs!  It was the greatest shame that his FUTURIANS was cut short--I marvel at the designs he might have introduced in his creator-owned series.

And I know that probably sounds at least a little hypocritical coming from someone posting on a comic creator's forum when I visit regularly, but the myth of the Marvel Bullpen was enough for me back then.

But the genie has long since been out of the bottle and contact with edotors, writers and artist is a lot easier than writing a letter to Marvel and hoping for a reply or better yet, that it gets published.

It's just the world we live in now.

I've mentioned this before, but Marvel UK were once based in my hometown, literally across the road from the newsagents where I used to get my comics.

For a while, I set my sights on working for them, especially after Stan had done such a great job of selling the harmonious relationships between every staff member.

In hindsight, that was a strange thing to believe in. 

Have you every worked in a multi-employee establishment (or sports team etc), where everyone got on with each other?

Brilliant, and it certainly worked on my young susceptible brain; I couldn't get enough. and it was also promotion for the creators' careers as well.