Tom Brevoort Once Defended Marvel Continuity. Not Anymore?

As plenty of comics readers may know, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort is one of the worst, most contemptuous of their modern staff today, showing no concern over how far they’ve fallen in terms of artistic consistency. Well, I found the following post from the Life of Reilly blog, covering the history of the infamous Spider-Man Clone Saga, suggesting he took a surprisingly different approach 3 decades ago. The statements were originally provided by writer Glenn Greenberg: Mark and I would discuss this stuff a lot, sometimes in the presence of my boss, Tom Brevoort. I recall that Tom B., who’s always placed great value on Marvel continuity and has always tried not to blatantly disregard it, kind of shook his head and shrugged his shoulders in our discussions. As I remember it, Brevoort didn’t think Norman’s return could ever possibly work anyway, at least from a continuity standpoint, so any efforts to make it work with the rest of Spider-Man’s history was ultimately a futile effort. Brevoort felt that there was just no way that Norman could have been alive all that time, considering all that happened in the world of Spider-Man since his apparent death. Tom B. felt that if Norman could m...