>>119938466Roy Thomas was one of the first comic book historians. He's probably the world's leading expert in what happened behind the scenes in Golden Age and Silver Age American publishers.
His literary forwards are amazing, because he doesn't hold anything back, and will give you the strict truth about what happened while writing that issue.
It just so happens that he was Stan Lee's hand-picked successor, and one of the most influential writers in American Comics. Plus he's generally considered to be the best writer of Robert E. Howard's works, after Howard himself.
The guy is a living legend, and will actually write you back, if you can find his email, and have something worth saying.