Talk:Roy Thomas

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Contents 1 Incredible Uncited Claim 2 Thomas DC work lacking 3 Another exaggerated claim 4 Can we verify which fan letters were his?

[edit] Incredible Uncited Claim

RE:

[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)

[edit] 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)

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

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)