While they were talking, she mentioned that she had encountered a supervillain on the way and had attacked him to get ready for her "audition" for Iron Man. He told her that he was not interested in having a new partner, as he was a solo act. She knew that Stark Enterprises was in town, so she was on her way there to introduce herself to her personal hero, Iron Man, to ask if he would take her on as his partner. In the Murray/Ditko story in "Marvel Super-Heroes" #8, Squirrel Girl runs into Iron Man while he is running some tests on his armor in the woods. This was how Squirrel Girl's first appearance came to be.
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When "Marvel Fanfare" ended, it continued as a quarterly series called "Marvel Super-Heroes," which continued using inventory scripts or sometimes scripts from new writers. In the 1980s, Marvel even had a special series called "Marvel Fanfare" built on this premise - a whole series of inventory stories or stories that were delayed and thus no longer fit into continuity. Sometimes, these stories would be used even if a book wasn't late, because Marvel had already paid for the story, so why not use it? Marvel's eventual solution was the development of the "inventory story," scripts written (on the rare occasion, even drawn) in case a book was late that's when the inventory story would be inserted. Marvel and DC used to do things that would seem shocking to readers today, like just throwing in reprint stories out of nowhere. A typical term heard in the old days at Marvel was "the dreaded deadline doom," which meant that something had to be changed because the book was late. There was a time in the past when a comic book coming out on time was a much bigger deal than it is now.