Tom Spurgeon on Bob Haney

Sometimes it's easier and more efficient to link to something: Tom Spurgeon gives a fairly detailed and informative summary of writer Bob Haney, who died on Nov. 25 from complications of a stroke suffered earlier this year. You'll have to scroll down a bit, but it's one of the first items on the page. The first item you'll see is the following:

I was happy in a very selfish way to read Mark Evanier's follow-up thoughts on the late mainstream comics writer Bob Haney, because it supports my notion that Haney should be given credit for being a bit more forward-thinking than many of his same-company peers when it came to understanding the appeal of superhero comic books of the 1960s. It's interesting to note this because Haney was so often categorized as an old-school sort of writer for the way his work read as compared to the first generation of fan writers that emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s. There's an anecdote that Haney used to tell about grabbing the new Marvel comics either right before or right after they hit the stands, and recognizing their pop-cult power, that I always found very charming. I should probably note that Mark's article brings in a few more issues than the one I'm talking about here.

Scroll down a bit more for the collection of Haney links.