the marvel method yeah sometimes i wouldn't even be this specific and i wouldn't have cared if jack devoted let's say six pages to this and he changed that to three pages just so he got the idea what i had in mind but he was good at making his own changes and very often improved them but yeah this is mine let's go to another character the silver surfer oh yeah could you tell us how the silver surfer came about right i wanted to have a villain called galactus we had so many villains who were so powerful i was looking for somebody who would be more powerful than any so i figured somebody who is a demigod who rides around in space and destroys planets i told jack about it and told him how i wanted the story to go generally and jack went home and he drew it and he drew a wonderful version but when i looked at the artwork i saw there was some nutty looking naked guy on a flying surfboard and i said who is this and he said well i don't remember whether he called him the surfer or not he may have called him the surfer but he said i thought that anybody as powerful as galactus who could destroy planets should have somebody who goes ahead of him a herald who finds the planets for him and i thought it would be good to have that guy on a flying surfboard i said one that's wonderful i loved it and i decided to call him the silver surfer which i thought sounded dramatic but that was all he was supposed to be a herald to find galactus as planets but the way jack drew him he looked so noble and so interesting that i said jack you know we ought to really use this guy i like him and i tried to write his copy so that he was very philosophical and he was always commenting about the state of the world and don't you human beings realize you live in a paradise why don't you appreciate it why do you fight each other and hate each other and i had him talking like that all the time and the college kids started to love him and whenever i would lecture at a college and there was a question and answers period it was inevitably the silver surfer that they would talk about the most so i was very happy with him and that's how it happened accidentally i mean i had nothing i didn't think of him jack it was one of the characters jack tossed into the strip and he drew him so beautifully that i felt we have to make him an important character and this is you talked about it before that artists were expected as part of their job to populate the story with characters kirby's lawyer misstate's testimony the question from marvel you can answer pardon me you can answer oh you see if there's a story where the hero goes let's say to a nightclub so i would say or whoever the writer is would say the hero goes to a nightclub and he talks to this person and then there's a gun fight well when the artist draws it the artist has to draw other people in the nightclub so the artist is always creating new characters i mean the artist might decide to have the character standing
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