While there he became an avid comic book fan, developing a strong interest in the superheroes being published by Marvel Comics, and later credited Stan Lee for being one of his greatest literary influences "Maybe Stan Lee is the greatest literary influence on me, even more than Shakespeare or Tolkien." A letter Martin wrote to the editor of Fantastic Four was printed in issue No. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and later Marist High School. Martin had a habit of starting "endless stories" that he never completed, as they did not turn out as well on paper as he had imagined them.
He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he decided they were killing each other off in "sinister plots".
Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included. During Martin's childhood, his world consisted predominantly of "First Street to Fifth Street", between his grade school and his home this limited world made him want to travel and experience other places, but the only way of doing so was through his imagination, and he became a voracious reader. In 1953, they moved to a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks. The family first lived in a house on Broadway, belonging to Martin's great-grandmother. However, while he also believed he was a quarter Italian because of who he was told was his paternal grandfather, a DNA test on the show confirmed his Irish and other ancestries but excluded any Italian ancestry, showing instead he is approximately a quarter Ashkenazi Jewish. He also acknowledges French, English, Welsh and German roots, which were confirmed on the television series Finding Your Roots. He has two younger sisters, Darleen and Janet.
It made him feel that even if they were poor, they came from greatness that had been taken away from them. His mother's family had once been wealthy, owning a successful construction business, but lost it all in the Great Depression, something Martin was reminded about every day when he passed what used to be his family's dock and house. George Raymond Martin (he adopted the confirmation name Richard at 13 years old, and adopted it as part of his full name) was born on September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. 10.1.2 Cross-genre anthologies edited (with Gardner Dozois).10.1.1 Wild Cards series editor (also contributor to many volumes).
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