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Marvel's Behind the Mask

I can't express enough how muchfun these lunatics were who worked there. Everybody was...

I can't express enough how much
fun these lunatics were who worked there. Everybody was just a lunatic at Marvel. It was completely unpolitically correct. Yes, there were Black jokes, but there were Polish jokes, there were
Italian jokes, there were Jewish jokes

Full Transcript

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I can't express enough how much fun these lunatics were who worked there.
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Everybody was just a lunatic at Marvel.
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It was completely unpolitically correct.
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Yes, there were Black jokes,
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but there were Polish jokes, there were Italian jokes, there were Jewish jokes.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
41
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:56
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Marvel New Media,Strike Anywhere,Tarmac Creative

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Movie Summary

Meet the writers and artists behind characters like Black Panther, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage, the X-Men, Captain Marvel, and many other characters in the Marvel Universe, highlighting their impact on pop culture and media.
So I had no sense, when I started writing Black characters, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:07
So I had no sense, when I started writing Black characters,
Moving into the '70s, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:15
Moving into the '70s,
I think it's because he was one of the first African-American superheroes - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:24
I think it's because he was one of the first African-Am...
The way he talks, the way he acts, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:13
The way he talks, the way he acts,
It's like what white people think slang is. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:25
It's like what white people think slang is.
I tried to tell good stories that respected the character, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:20
I tried to tell good stories that respected the character,
It's rare for me to craft a story - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:12
It's rare for me to craft a story
I wrote Luke Cage for a long time. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:13
I wrote Luke Cage for a long time.
I think that it does start out as this exploitative piece, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:09
I think that it does start out as this exploitative piece,
To go from, say, like this kind of jive-talkin', - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:14
To go from, say, like this kind of jive-talkin',
I think identity in comics is huge. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:34
I think identity in comics is huge.
Rubbley-ub-dub, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:22
Rubbley-ub-dub,
For instance, at the end of the heyday of the Golden Age of comics, - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:16
For instance, at the end of the heyday of the Golden Age of ...
Larry Hama talks about this. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:33
Larry Hama talks about this.
There were no Black people - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:19
There were no Black people
And Stan had to call him up and kind of ream them out over it - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:13
And Stan had to call him up and kind of ream them out over i...
Gabe Jones ends up looking more gray and more like stone in a lot of issues - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:19
Gabe Jones ends up looking more gray and more like stone in ...
You can yell and pound the desk all you want. - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:10
You can yell and pound the desk all you want.
It's more lasting and it has more meaning if you become part of what it is - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:34
It's more lasting and it has more meaning if you become...
"What are you guys, crazy?" - Marvel's Behind the Mask 00:18
"What are you guys, crazy?"