![]() The Steranko-designed logo is still used in the comics today and served as the basis for the movie logo. #AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT STERANKO MARSHALL MOVIE# And, Steranko quickly noted, "I never got paid for it."īack to "At the Stroke of Midnight." Steranko explained that DC Comics had just launched a couple of horror anthology titles, House of Mystery and House of Secrets, which were doing well, and Marvel decided to launch a similar magazine Tower of Shadows to compete with them. Steranko did a story for the series and gave it the title, "The Lurking Fear at Shadow House," which referred to H.P. #AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT STERANKO MARSHALL SERIES# Lovecraft, whose stories were being revived. Stan Lee, Steranko went on, didn't quite get the Lovecraft reference and came up with his own title for the story. Much conflict ensued before the two men settled on, "At the Stroke of Midnight. "So I lost and he won," Steranko concluded. ![]() Lee and Steranko were continually quarreling over Steranko's storytelling innovations. Steranko disliked what he called "the five-sided panel," i.e., a panel that has a caption that does not extend all the way across the top, hence it now has five sides. Naturally for "At the Stroke of Midnight," Steranko made the effort to write each caption and balloon so that it would run the whole length of the panel. Again, Stan Lee didn't get it and changed the dialogue and captions to fit the Marvel house style.īy this time, they were both infuriated and were arguing about whether Lee was firing Steranko or whether Steranko had quit. About a month later, Steranko got a call from Lee: "Hey, Jim," said Steranko, imitating Lee's easygoing tone of voice. Steranko recalled that he started to laugh: "The whole thing was so utterly absurd." By this time, Steranko concluded, Lee was laughing as well and said, "Jim, you belong here. Come back." And that's just what Steranko did. Still More (Really) Weird Heroes: El Diablo.(Weird) Sunday Funnies: Howard the Duck.Werewolf Week! Batman in "Moon of the Wolf".Werewolf Week Continues! Swamp Thing in "Monster O.WEREWOLF WEEK Rolls On! Solomon Kane in "The Silve.WEREWOLF WEEK Gets Out of this World with Man-Wolf!.WEREWOLF WEEK Concludes: Furry-ous First Friday pr.Weird Sunday Funnies: John Byrne's Rog-2000.Whatever Happened to Heroes Who Look Like Heroes?.Black and White Wednesday: "Wooden Cross" from Cre.Frightening First Fridays: Tower of Shadows #1.The Haunt of Horror: Marvel's Horror Prose Digest.So it took a lot of effort to get "At the Stroke of Midnight" from Steranko's drawing board to the spinner racks in July, 1969. (Really) Weird Heroes Week Continues with: Morlock.#AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT STERANKO MARSHALL SERIES#.#AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT STERANKO MARSHALL MOVIE#.
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