We’ve heard the story a million times before.

Now, hear the story directly from Lee’s mouth.

Lee recalls how the Comics Code’s inflexibility stood in the way of a story that spoke to the contemporary issue of drug abuse in the ’70s, and how Marvel circumvented potential censorship on behalf of none other than the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services). It’s a piece of comic book history many fans have read about, but this time it’s told straight from the storyteller who lived it.

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