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Days That Will Live in Infamy In an incredibly emotional letter for this kind of office memo, Stan Lee spoke directly to the matter of Martin Goodman's mid-1970s comic-book company Atlas, and Goodman's attempts to poach Marvel talent for his new titles. The Atlas line was really the World Football League of 1970s mainstream comic books, in that looking back you can't remember much about them except all the interesting things the fight over skilled labor revealed, and what those fights said about the various institutions as they existed at the time. Judging from the language used here, Lee saw this as a personal battle. This may be the last time that a comic-book company's labor practices were compared to the efforts of the Allied Command during World War II. As it turned out, Lee needn't have worried. Atlas lasted a period of time better measured in months than years.
The Atlas experiment is discussed in Chapter 14.
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