Mark Gruenwald

Uh, you get to, you, you, you get to give somebody a break, launch their career.

I was launched by the people who opened the door for me, Mark Gruenwald putting his h- hand across the table and saying, uh, you know, "Welcome to Marvel Comics." Now, did it take them six months to give me work at Marvel? It did.

Something that you're gonna hear, uh, v- very, very interestingly from Andy as Andy takes you through, uh, the process of when we hired him.

We broke Andy Park.

And then a couple more here.

Mark Gruenwald, who was a Marvel writer slash editor, he requested that his ashes be mixed into ink and then used to print comic books.

Because he obviously was into the comic books.

So now I guess he lives in comic books.

But listen, if I go and say, "Captain America, um, 1986, who was writing him?" Um-

Mark Gruenwald.

Who?

Mark Gruenwald.

Oh, see, so he's-

See, he knows Captain America

Yes.

Uh, but that, that kind of brings us to Mark Gruenwald, doesn't it?

What about Mark Gruenwald?

[laughs] Okay.

Jimmy Kimmel beat, uh, the, uh, Trump.

It was on his wall on The Late Show all those years.

It's been on his wall for 30 years of broadcasting, and now it is on Jimmy Kimmel's producer's stand.

It is the custom-made Captain America shield that Mark Gruenwald owned that Joey Quesada, after Mark died, g- gave to, to Colbert on the air.

bitch.

I know you're not even that big of a fan of Mark Gruenwald.

I mean, imagine.

I mean, oh, God.

Wow.

So that's why it's kind of spread thin a little bit, but number nine, this will be interesting, Mark Gruenwald with six points.

Now, how about we do this game.

Can you take a guess at anything they would have thrown out?

We had Walter Simonson.

We actually had one other, which we didn't talk about on the podcast, I realized, that was doing the writing and the art, and I really didn't realize that till I was, like, looking at the statistics from our podcast.

I'm sure you have no idea who, but it'll segue into number 10 on our list, Mark Gruenwald, who wrote and did the art-

Oh

[laughs] Hmm.

But, so over the course of that storyline, which is one of my favorites, one of my favorite storylines, uh, written by Mark Gruenwald-

Hmm

... um, and drawn, as this issue was, by Kieron Dwyer.

Oh, boy

... who was in one issue of a Mark Gruenwald Captain America comic in 1989 or something.

It's gonna be-

Well, not, not even-

Okay.

Created by Mark Gruenwald and Elliot Brown and first appearing in Hawkeye number three from August of 1983.

Okay.

So her name is Wendy Conrad, and she is a mercenary who specializes in explosives.

[chuckles]

So that is the writer and artist, and then the inker is Jack Abel, the colorist Andy Vanches, letterer Diana Albers, and editor Marc Gruenwald.

So we open up and it has the, uh, the credits at the top, and the title to this one is, Bob?

To Tame a Tumbler.