When producer Jodi Hildebrand started working in the Marvel Studios office, she noticed that many notes and interoffice memos were written in violet ink. “You like our purple pens?” Kevin Feige asked her. The first time Hildebrand opened the office’s supply closet, she understood: there was a vast stockpile of purple pens because the Marvel staffers had used all the black and blue pens in the multipacks, and the office wasn’t allowed to order more until all the purple ink had been used up.

