In Marvel's comics back in the day, they ran a one-page feature called Bullpen Bulletins that had news, columns, and various pieces of trivia about what was goi

In Marvel's comics back in the day, they ran a one-page feature called Bullpen Bulletins that had news, columns, and various pieces of trivia about what was going on at Marvel. They originally did one a month, but starting with the beginning of 1993 they started running a different Bullpen Bulletins every week. One week a month, they ran a column by Marvel's Senior Executive Editor, Mark Gruenwald, called "Mark's Remarks", where he wrote about whatever was on his mind. In one of those columns, Gru wrote about how he detests smoking and he doesn't allow people to smoke in his office. I remember stumbling on that column a few years ago, when I was going through some old comics, and it's just bizarre to me that you could smoke in any other part of Marvel's offices as recently as 1993-4 (I don't remember exactly when that column was from, but it was one of those two years) and that whether or not you could smoke in somebody's office was up to whoever the office belonged to. And I grew up in that era!