One story idea Keyes wrote but did not submit to Lee was called "Brainstorm", the paragraph-long synopsis that would evolve into Flowers for Algernon. Naturally, I began submitting story ideas, getting freelance assignment, and supplementing my salary by writing scripts on my own time. Because of my experience editing Marvel and because I'd sold a few science fiction stories by then, Stan allowed me to specialize in the horror, fantasy, suspense, and science fiction comic books. Writers turned in plot synopses, Stan read them, and as a matter of course, would accept one or two from each of the regulars he referred to as his "stable." As one of his front men, I would pass along comments and criticism. let his editors deal with the scriptwriters, cartoonists, and lettering crew. Since my $17.25-a-month rent was almost due, I accepted what I considered a detour on my journey toward a literary career. Īs Keyes recalled, Goodman offered him a job under Lee after Marvel Science Stories ceased publication: Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.
After Goodman ceased publishing pulps in favor of paperback books and men's adventure magazines, Keyes became an associate editor of Atlas under editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee. Erisman, and began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. He eventually became an editor of their pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories ( cover-dated Nov. Ī month after graduation, Keyes joined publisher Martin Goodman's magazine company, Magazine Management.
Afterward he returned to New York and in 1950 received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College. He attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers. Keyes was born in New York City, New York. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. Daniel Keyes (Aug– June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon.
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