...in this incredibly HTF book from 1948!
All this has been mere prologue.
BTW, you probably don't recognize most of the characters Lee mentions.
Timely/Atlas/Marvel hasn't published most of them in decades.
Note: the blonde model/actress Hedy Devine, (aka "Hedy de Vine"), is not the Hedy who became part of the team of Patsy & Hedy, who had their own book through the mid-60s.
That was brunette Hedy Wolfe, who was a teenager, like her "frenemy" Patsy Walker.
Both of them eventually became part of the Marvel multiverse.
Both of them eventually became part of the Marvel multiverse.