Here's a 1982 WORLDS COLLIDE (A British fanzine) interview major with Marvel scribe of the 1970s/ 1980s (and the go-to man for licensed properties): Bill Mantlo.
Bill and Marvel (specifically Jim Shooter) came to an acrimonious parting-of-the-ways during the eighties and Bill left comics and studied law. Unfortunately his career was cut short by a hit-and-run accident which has left him in a coma for well over a decade.
