He remained at his post from February to September 1969, and was succeeded as Lee's assistant by Allyn Brodsky, no relation to Sol Brodsky. Lee invited him to submit story ideas, but Hewetson's writing style, heavily influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and other 19th-century authors, proved "highly unsuitable for Marvel superheroes", Hewetson said. He also took the Marvel staff and freelancer photos published in Fantastic Four Annual #7 ( cover-dated Nov.
His duties included opening and answering fan mail, preparing the letters pages for most of the comics, mailing complete sets of comics to Marvel writers and artists, awarding " No Prizes", and serving as Lee's gofer. Stan had liked me, needed an assistant, and was going to 'introduce new guys into the medium who he figured had potential,' is how I think they put it. That’s how I got into writing professionally." Decades later, Hewetson detailed that not long after conducting the interview with Lee, "I received a phone call from Sol Brodsky offering me a job as Stan's assistant for 'six months,' for a comparatively small salary. Then, as Hewetson recalled in a 1973 interview, he phoned Lee, "with whom I’d corresponded for about a year, and asked him for a position and within a few weeks I had the position. Hoping to start a humor magazine with both text articles and comics, he arranged to interview Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee in New York City, New York. Through his involvement in comics fandom, he began corresponding with such future underground and alternative comics creators as Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch, Robert Crumb, and Art Spiegelman, and published a single issue of a fanzine, The Potrzebie Annual (no relation to fellow fan Bhob Stewart's Potrzebie). At his new home, he began reading the satirical Mad and Humbug magazines, becoming infatuated with the work of writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman.
There he read such comic books as Classics Illustrated, The Beano and Eagle before his family migrated to Canada when he was 9 years old, in 1956. He went on to become a publisher of city magazines in Canada.Īl Hewetson was born and initially raised in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of James and Elizabeth Hewetson. Hewetson (Aug – January 6, 2004) was a Scottish-Canadian writer and editor of American horror-comics magazines, best known for his work with the 1970s publisher Skywald Publications, where he created what he termed the magazines' "Horror-Mood" sensibility.
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