In 1967 Marvel packaged a comic book for the ABC television network promoting their Saturday morning cartoon line. Not coincidentally, two of the debuting cartoons featured the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. The indicia provided further information: “Published by the American Broadcasting Company” and “prepared and edited by Magazine Management Company.” It also included information that did not appear in other Marvel comics: "Distributed nationally be the Independent News Company" Independent News had been distributing Martin Goodman's products since 1957, although, as far as I know, it was never included in the indicia (at least inside the comic books. The IND symbol appeared on covers). There was no reference to Marvel, either on the cover or interior pages, aside from the reprinted FF and Spidey stories. In the past Martin Goodman packaged comics for outside companies (see my blog post on Big Boy). As with Big Boy, Production head Sol Brodsky was almost certainly
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