From yesterday's ridiculous to today's sublime. Bill Everett is well-known to have suffered from various health and substance abuse issues for years but there was never a point I saw where it showed in his work. His horror stories were EC quality even though he never worked for that company!
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I've seen this story before, probably in the early 1970s when I lucked out and purchased a ton of comics from the 1940s and 1950s, including a lot of Atlas horror material.
Of course, if Marvel re-published this in one of its 1970s black and white mags, I might have encountered it then...
The only impact comics-wise the alcoholism had on Everett was, I believe, the ability to make some deadlines. Or maybe it just contributed to poor health that did it. Of course, the big impact, I believe, was on his family life.
And about his only problem job was the notorious Daredevil 1. And the problem there was primarily that he had a day job.
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