My Secret #1 is (remember it this time, Maggie) copy the doggone post before hitting "Post to Weblog." Try it again ...

I just pulled out my copy of Secrets behind the Comics, a 1947 pamphlet by Stan Lee (illustrated by Ken Bald, lettered by M. Acquaviva) and found it fun yet again.

Secret #1 is:

"Stan Lee is the Managing Editor and Art Director of Timely Comics Inc. He has been in complete charge of more comic magazines than any other living editor. Some of the many comic magazines which Stan Lee has edited and been Art Director of, are:

"Marvel Comics, Blonde Phantom, Human Torch, Official Comics, All-True Crime, Young Allies, Sub-mariner, Justice, Millie the Model, Patsy Walker, Miss America, Junior Miss, Georgie, Willie, Hedy, Tessie the Typist

"And dozens more ..."

Secrets included how to recognize artists' styles (comparing and contrasting work by Ed Winiarski and Vic Dowd, both of whom drew "Hedy Devine"). It's a neat booklet -- has it ever been reprinted?