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123 “Susan and I”: Ibid. All other direct quotations in this passage are from this interview.
125 “I saw a different”: Ibid.
126 “Sammy and Delilah”: Interview with Ann Eisner; Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: On the road again,” The Spirit #54 (CB).
126 “I was sitting”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
126 “They claimed”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: On the road again.”
129 “I felt there was”: Mike Barson, Ted White, and Mitch Berger, “… And I Threw in a Hat … ,” Heavy Metal, November 1983.
129 P*S magazine: Paul E. Fitzgerald’s self-published book, Will Eisner and PS Magazine (Fincastle, WV: Fitzworld.US, 2009), is the most complete, comprehensive look at Eisner’s work on the magazine available, with copious illustrations, interviews with P*S staff editors and artists, extensive commentary from Eisner, and more. See also Cat Yronwode, “Eisner’s P*S Years,” The Spirit Magazine #33 (February 1982).
129 “It was a very”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Sam Spade and the Nature Boy,” The Spirit #82 (CB).
130 “Army personnel”: Fitzgerald, Will Eisner and PS Magazine, pp. 15–16.
131 “he felt as if”: Ibid, p. 21.
133 “it was a dilemma”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Stabilizing the Spirit,” The Spirit #74 (CB).
133 “The obvious was”: Will Eisner, “An Introduction to the Wally Wood Spirits,” The Spirit Magazine #20.
133 “last gasp”: Will Eisner, “Reminiscences and Hortations,” transcribed by Steve Freitag, edited by Gary Groth, Comics Journal #89.
134 “Looking back”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Stabilizing the Spirit.”
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135 Epigraph: Eisner, Will Eisner’s Shop Talk, p. 23.
135 Comic book hearings and Comics Code: Beaty, Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture, pp. 155–164; Goulart, Great History of Comic Books, pp. 268–274; Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague, pp. 250–295; Jones, Men of Tomorrow, pp. 270–277; Nyberg, Seal of Approval, pp. 53–128; Simon, The Comic Book Makers, pp. 118–130.
137 “The comic-book format”: Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent (New York: Rinehart, 1954), p. 118.
138 “I think Hitler”: Senate hearings, as quoted in Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague, p. 264.
139 “I felt that”: Frank Jacobs, The Mad World of William M. Gaines (Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1972), p. 107.
139 “my only limits”: Senate hearings, as quoted in Nyberg, Seal of Approval, p. 63.
139 “Do you think”: Senate hearings, as quoted in Nyberg, Seal of Approval, p. 63.
140 “We are constantly”: David Gallagher, “The Portrait of a Sequential Artist: Will Eisner,” Comics Bulletin (online), n.d.
141 Shake-up at P*S magazine: Paul E. Fitzgerald, Will Eisner and PS Magazine (Fincastle, VA: Fitzworld.US, 2009); interview with Paul Fitzgerald.
141 “I have never known”: Fitzgerald, Will Eisner and PS Magazine, p. 19.
143 “I don’t think”: Ibid., p. 30.
144 “If you moved”: Interview with Ann Eisner.
144 “It would reach”: Interview with Paul Fitzgerald.
145 “I was fighting”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: A new Spirit world,” The Spirit #73 (CB).
145 “When I learned”: Ibid.
146 “1. Effective immediately”: “Memorandum of Record, June 28, 1955,” as reprinted in Fitzgerald, Will Eisner and PS Magazine, pp. 82–83.
146 “Some bureaucrat”: Heintjes, “Stage Settings: A new Spirit world.”
147 “When I went”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Stabilizing the Spirit,” The Spirit #74 (CB).
148 “I stayed with”: Tom Heintjes, “Stage Settings: Refried fiends,” The Spirit #81 (CB).
149 “I became far more interested”: Will Eisner, “Reminiscences and Hortations,” transcribed by Steve Freitag, edited by Gary Groth, Comics Journal #89.
149 “There were all kinds”: Dirk Deppey, “Mike Ploog on Will Eisner,” Comics Journal #267.
149 “We used to get”: Ibid.
151 “Drawn as if”: Jules Feiffer, The Great Comic Book Heroes (New York: Dial Press, 1965; updated 1977), p. 35.
151 “For some reason”: Ibid.
151 “It was kind”: Maggie Thompson, “Blue Suit, Blue Mask, Blue Gloves—and No Socks,” Golden Age of Comics #2.
151 “Eisner’s line had”: Feiffer, The Great Comic Book Heroes, pp. 34–35.
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