![]() ![]() ![]() in film business in Los Angeles, but he wanted to be a writer he had written an unproduced screenplay about an alien invasion. The Marvel characters always seem to have personal problems.”īy 2001, Yost, then twenty-seven, was getting an M.F.A. “Every time you think he’s going to live this big, glamorous superhero life, it’s not that way. “He’s got money problems and girl problems, and his aunt May is always sick,” Yost said. Unlike the DC comics, whose heroes (Superman, Batman) towered like gods, Marvel’s were relatably human, especially Peter Parker, a.k.a. Wolverine could team up with Captain America Doctor Doom could fight the Red Skull. None of his friends read Marvel it was his own private world, a “sprawling story where all these characters lived in this universe together,” he recalled. ![]() Growing up in Missouri, Christopher Yost had boxes of Marvel comic books, which his mother bought at the grocery store. ![]()
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