Foreword by Stan Lee

Lloyd Kaufman and I have known each other since Lloyd was at Yale in the 1960s and sought me out. He was one of the many brilliant young students for whom Marvel Comics had become a sort of shrine, but Lloyd stood out among the others. He seemed driven by some kind of strong intellectual force combined with a monomaniacal passion for pop culture. That is why in 1970 I chose him to write a screenplay with me based on “Night of the Witch,” one of my stories. Lloyd had never written a movie script, but I could tell that his incredibly original ideas and incredibly “unique” personality could be wrapped up in one incredibly charged enchilada of horror! I was right. Our script was immediately optioned by Cannon, the premiere indie ...

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