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Post by DubipR on Mar 15, 2017 10:16:06 GMT -5
I had two letters printed. First one was in Steel #28 and the other was in the Frankenstein Mobster #3... Now there is a comic just asking to be created. Frankenstein Mobster. Made up of different body parts of famous dead criminals like Capone, Dillinger and others . An unstoppable mob enforcer embracing his true evil villainy!!!! Must read comic book of the century  You're sort of on the right path but not there. Mobsters and monsters live in the city. Four mobsters killed and their souls and parts are combined into one... he's the good guy.  |
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Post by MDG on Mar 15, 2017 11:03:49 GMT -5
At some point in the 80s, I decided to write a letter a day. Only lasted a week or so but 5 or 6 were printed in Mr. Monster, Hawkman, Ms. Tree, CBG. Forget the others.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 11:09:02 GMT -5
I never read too many letters pages back in the old days. Either I was too busy or maybe I just thought they were all made up? No, you're thinking of Penthouse Forum. Penthouse had a letters page?!  |
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Post by MDG on Mar 15, 2017 11:13:16 GMT -5
No, you're thinking of Penthouse Forum. Penthouse had a letters page?! It was so popular, they spun it off into its own digest. Seriously. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 11:21:42 GMT -5
Penthouse had a letters page?! It was so popular, they spun it off into its own digest. Seriously. Don't remember seeing any letters in the mags I used to buy... but maybe I missed them too!  |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 15, 2017 11:49:59 GMT -5
Did anyone here have a letter printed? I had some letters printed back in the late Silver Age-early Bronze Age, in Adventure (when the Legion were the lead feature); World's Finest; Lois Lane; and, as I just discovered a week or so ago, Teen Titans. Back then distribution was so bad in my neighborhood so my comics-buying was very hit-or-miss and I never had the actual issue back then. For Adventure, I remember DC sent out a one or two page newsletter/Legion fact sheet, printed on green or blue paper. It seemed that whenever I received one of those in the mail, it meant that my letter (or an excerpt of it) would be printed. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 11:53:18 GMT -5
I wrote to DC Comics in care of the Justice League and they never, ever print it and a couple years later they sent me a postcard acknowledging it and that's was the end of it. Disappointing indeed.
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Post by Golddragon71 on Mar 17, 2017 23:37:31 GMT -5
I only had One Printed in an issues of Green Arrow (#122 regarding #s 117-118) 
btw I should point out ...that's an old email address funny I didn't realize it until just now but I coined the famous phrase... |
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 18, 2017 21:00:14 GMT -5
I had a few letters published over the years that I've talked about on different occasions here, but there's one I don't think I've ever mentioned, and had forgotten about until mfd1 posted his comments. I was always a little envious of people who'd get advance copies of upcoming new comics so that the publisher could include a letters page in the first or second issue, but I was never on "the list", not being a particularly prolific letterhack. One of my long-distance friend, Chris Khalaf, was, and he received a preview copy of DC's Zatanna #1 (1993) with a request for comments. For personal reasons, Chris did not want to read or review that comic, so he sent it to me, and I sent editor Kim Yale an unsolicited letter of comment, which she included in one of the issues of the miniseries.
As for "best letters pages", I always liked Murray Boltinoff's in World's Finest, Teen Titans, and Brave & Bold, even though he would often reduce letters to mere excerpts. Boltinoff sent me a couple of post cards giving me advance notice that he was publishing my letters, and sent me some photocopies of a Jim Aparo bio that ran in an issue that I had missed, which was nice of him!
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Post by stillpoint on Aug 4, 2017 2:06:53 GMT -5
The most fascinating letters page I've read--and I do like to read them--is in the first Spider-Woman series. Over the course of 50 issues it had five different writers, including Ann Nocenti in her first regular gig, and many artists, including Steve Leialoha on pencils. There were three or four distinct changes in tone. All this turnover provided fodder for letter writers--and that's in addition to the title character being a derivative character and a woman leading her own book. There were varying and conflicting opinions on all those points, all while sales kept drifting lower, which compelled the editors (there were a few of those, too) more than once to drop the merry Marvel façade in an effort to relate with readers. Here's Denny O'Neil from issue #31:
As I mentioned earlier, fascinating. I don't think I'd ever label it "best," however. As far as best goes, the Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. letters pages (called H.A.T.E.mail) were almost more fun than the series. Compiled and answered by the "Lettermatic 7053", they were half input from actual readers and half wild stuff made up by Warren Ellis, such as mail from Julius Caesar or from the year 2150. And all were answered in a humorous manner as the Lettermatic became more or less a character in the book. One letters page was only a review of the Toto song "Africa."
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Post by LovesGilKane on Aug 4, 2017 3:41:46 GMT -5
silver age FF, always.
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