STAN LEE'S SOAP BOX - MARVEL COMICS CONVENTION 1976 

A long time ago (1975-76) I worked with Stan Lee producing a series of TV shows for Manhattan Cable called STAN LEE'S SOAP BOX. We made about a dozen shows or more, with interviews of Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Roy Thomas, Big John Buscema, Johnny Romita and others. This is one of 2 shows that survived a terrible, tragic fire. I had given a set of these tapes to Stan, but when I called him a few years ago, he forgot what happened to them. Included in this show are Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, John Buscema, Joan Celia Lee (Stan's daughter) and others. This was Marvel's second annual comic book convention at the Commodore Hotel in Manhattan. It was a very old school comic convention in that everything was about comics, no TV, no movies, no video games. The Commodore was also where Big John Buscema taught his comic book illustration workshop, which I attended for a year, and where Stan came to visit our class,. I videotaped Stan's presentation and that is how the STAN LEE'S SOAP BOX TV series was started.