Stan Goldberg is one of our great veteran comic book artists. He drew hundreds — more likely, thousands of pages for the Archie comic books. He also was an artist for Marvel Comics in the fifties and sixties, drawing comics like Millie the Model, and he was their head colorist. This is the man who made the Hulk green. This is the man who made the work of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and others look so colorful and bright. He's also a helluva nice guy, widely loved throughout the field, and was recently awarded the prestigious Gold Key Award by the National Cartoonists Society.
We're thinking good thoughts tonight about Stan and his wonderful wife Pauline who were in a terrible auto accident last week. They're in nearby rooms in a hospital in New York and likely to be there a while. That kind of thing's bad at any age but Stan is 81 (I can only guess about Pauline) so they both have a lot of mending and rehab ahead of them. We all wish them well…and hope they know how many people are pulling for them.