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Have you ever wondered what the Marvel Comics offices were like in the ‘90s? It turns out it was just like an elementary school playground. Tom DeFalco, who was Marvel’s editor-in-chief from 1987 through 1994, says that the staff would get so rowdy that sometimes he had to come up with explanations for the property damage.

“We had people going up and down the halls in roller skates,” DeFalco says during a panel at Dragon Con. “At one point I had to forbid them from throwing Captain America’s shield, because we had fully glass walls. And a couple of times somebody would throw that big shield and it would smash into a door or something like that. And then I would have to go upstairs and make an excuse about what happened. I couldn’t say, ‘My idiots were throwing the Captain America shield.’ I had to make an excuse.”

I have to imagine that Disney has cracked down on some of this behavior since they bought Marvel in 2009. Which is kind of a shame, because this sounds like a fun office to work in. Unless you’re the editor-in-chief.

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