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Incredible Uncited Claim

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[Roy's bringing in the Star Wars movie-adaptation rights was], a move credited by many with single-handedly saving Marvel from financial bankruptcy.

If it's credited by many, let's have a couple of authoritative quotes/citations, pls - Tenebrae 00:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas DC work lacking

I expanded the details of Thomas' DC work on the weekend of Feb 4-5, 2006. I see that it has been severly edited. That's a shame as Thomas' DC career was as significant as his Marvel career. Can I add back the narrative on how his books were hosed by the Crisis?

If you read Roy's memos to Marv Wolfman, Len Wein and Dick Giordano from 1984 as published in Crisis on Infinite Earths - Absolute Edition, you'll see that Roy embraced Crisis once it was seen as a fait accompli, and offered to write the Earth-2 Superman and Wonder Woman out of active publication, and suggested the golden age versions of Sandman, Sandy the Golden Boy, Wildcat and the Earth-2 Lois Lane and Robin for killing off in the series. So I question who was hosing who.

All this would have a lot more authority if the person(s) posting would register with Wikipedia and sign their posts. -- Tenebrae 21:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The aforementioned memoranda speak for themselves. Read them or don't, but my registering and signing, or not, neither add nor detract from their substantive content.

I've made several additions/changes to the DC section in the last few days. I hadn't looked at this talk page prior to that. Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm not the "mystery editor of 2006". Mtminchi08 (talk) 08:11, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another exaggerated claim

Article currently says "He is best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, sparking a long-running trend in sword and sorcery and bringing Conan's late creator, Robert E. Howard, into mainstream prominence." Of course, it was the Lancer paperbacks with Frazetta covers that sparked the huge Conan / Sword and Sorcery fad in the mid-'60s. The Marvel comics just rode the existing trend a half-dozen years later, though they certainly added to the Conan storyline and created a cult favorite in artist Barry Windsor-Smith. I am modifying accordingly.

No Conan comic, no famous Conan. The Frazetta covered paperbacks were hits amongst pulp fans, and others so inclined to like this sort of thing, but those early issues of the comic attracted a whole new audience, and added to the notion that in the early seventies, something special was still happening in the world of comics (and college kids pop culture) which began with Lee, Kirby & Ditko. Certainly, the undergrounds, Steranko, Adams, Wrightson, Kaluta, Warren mags, Tolkien & Dune, a good run of Mad, Star Trek reruns, and the rise of Phil Seuling's New York Comic Conventions all added to the mystique of the period, but Thomas and Smith's Conan added to this, in a way in which the pb's didn't (although Frazetta's works themselves certainly contributed to the fabric of the era). The same might be said about Moorcock's Elric, in which I'm sure (though have no figures) Thomas (and later Russell, of course) did more to popularize than Moorcock's own books. 71.125.238.223 (talk) 04:06, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can we verify which fan letters were his?

A fan letter from a "Roy Thomas" from Sullivan, Missouri was printed in the letter column of Fantastic Four #5 (July, 1962). Postdlf 21:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Another letter in Fantastic Four #15 (June, 1963), addressed "Roy Thomas, 307 Greensferry Rd, Jackson, Mo.." I'll keep posting them as I find them... Postdlf 22:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Done - it needs more references and a photo. (Emperor (talk) 00:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Bibliography missing

If the entry for Stan Lee can include a detailed, issue-by-issue bibliography, then certainly the one for Roy Thomas can have one. Lee was a work horse. Between 1963 and 66 his output maxed out at a whopping 9 titles at one time. Thomas' career as a writer may have been longer, but surely not too extensive for inclusion here. Plus, I'd like to be able to compare his output to Lee's. Thetrellan (talk) 23:55, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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≈== Is this enough proof, evidence, reliable and credible reference? ==

Is this enough proof, evidence, reliable and credible reference and source(s) to clarify that Roy Thomas and the rest are indeed Jewish? If so you're not really paying attention, I don't think. "NYCC 2015: COMICS AND JEWS with Paul Levitz, Paul ... www.comicosity.com › News Sep 30, 2015 - Presented by the American Jewish Historical Society ... The event will feature a discussion with writers, artists, and historians Karen Green, ... prominent Jewish comic writers such as Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler, Ellen Weiss, ..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8004:2750:81FC:21A1:CF23:CB7D:A02F (talk) 08:24, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to Roy Thomas himself, he "went to a parochial Lutheran school" as stated here.

Rich Buckler was not Jewish either as seen here.

The comicosity.com article is in error. Mtminchi08 (talk) 21:33, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This source describes Roy Thomas as a "lapsed Lutheran" here Mtminchi08 (talk)

Morbious. (Fake) (illegal)

Hi I would like the producer of this film to contact me asap. I have a few questions? Also I have information that could close this mans career👀 92.19.203.230 (talk) 08:12, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Brother Voodoo

Removing this claimed co-creation credit because (a) it is unsourced, and (b) according to the Brother Voodoo article and its references, the only thing Thomas did was suggest a name that wasn't used.^[1] Shadow (talk) 02:27, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Aushenker, Michael (April 2014). "Disposable Heroes". Back Issue! (#71). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 33–37.

[back71-1] Aushenker, Michael (April 2014). "Disposable Heroes". Back Issue! (#71). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 33–37.

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