Wein struggled with the constant cycle of cancellations and launches ordered by Lee and Landau. Iron Fist, a kung-fu hero whose origin was mostly lifted from an old Bill Everett creation that predated Timely, was given his own title, as was Black Goliath, in another attempt at an African-American audience… and also Red Sonja, and the Scarecrow, and Skull the Slayer, and Bloodstone, and on and on. “You’d go into the office one day,” said one assistant, “and the thirty books you’d edited last week would all be canceled, and even though they were in various stages of production, none of them was published yet, and thirty new books would be there for you to work on.”
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