The nice folks at Heritage Auctions are selling some items that belonged to my late buddy Steve Sherman. I suggest you browse and bid.
But on their site, Heritage also has a few paragraphs about Steve that could do with some corrections…
Like so many kids, Steve and his brother Gary saved up their allowance to buy comic books at the neighborhood liquor store. They joined a comic book club that met at a park in Venice, California, where they met Mark Evanier, the club's self-appointed president, in 1968.
Jack Kirby, who'd just arrived from New York to head up Marvelmania, recruited the comic book club to roll up posters and help in the office. Marvelmania was the official licensee for Marvel posters and merchandise. Kirby, naturally, was often asked to produce artwork for the company.
The comic book club met at a park in West Los Angeles and I was in no way self-appointed as its president. We had elections. And Jack did not come out from New York to "head up Marvelmania" in any way. He moved his family to California for other reasons and it was after he got here that the guy who ran Marvelmania contacted him and enlisted him to design and draw product for the company.
Jack also did not recruit or hire anyone for Marvelmania to roll posters. That guy who ran Marvelmania did that and he was a crook who fled into the night when his creditors came after him. Among the many he stiffed was Jack Kirby. Please don't make anyone think Jack set up that shady operation.
Come on, folks. I'm only an e-mail away when you need to fact-check this kind of thing.