seanhowe:Photo: Flo Steinberg in 1970. Desperate to catch up on...

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Photo: Flo Steinberg in 1970.
Desperate to catch up on deadlines, Stan Lee got Martin Goodman’s approval to hire an assistant—a “gal Friday,” in his words—to help with the administrative work. In March 1963, a temp agency sent over Florence Steinberg, a button-cute, bouffant-sporting twenty-five- year-old in pearls and white gloves who’d recently arrived in New York from Boston. Steinberg, a former art history major, was every bit as upbeat and outgoing as Lee—she’d been student coun...