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Post by berkley on Aug 20, 2014 22:36:05 GMT -5
Wasn't JM de Matteis well-known to Marvel readers as a letter-writer before getting into writing comics himself? I must admit that I liked him better as a writer of letters to comcis than as a writer of comics, but that's probably because I haven't read his best stuff.
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Post by Daryl on Aug 21, 2014 10:44:14 GMT -5
Wasn't JM de Matteis well-known to Marvel readers as a letter-writer before getting into writing comics himself? I must admit that I liked him better as a writer of letters to comcis than as a writer of comics, but that's probably because I haven't read his best stuff. Yeah, I have a bunch of books that DeMatteis wrote letters in. There is also a Bob Rodi who got a lot of letters in. Is he the same as Robert Rodi who I think wrote a few books in the early 00s, like that "Codename:Knockout" business. |
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Post by paulie on Aug 21, 2014 11:43:54 GMT -5
Wasn't JM de Matteis well-known to Marvel readers as a letter-writer before getting into writing comics himself? I must admit that I liked him better as a writer of letters to comcis than as a writer of comics, but that's probably because I haven't read his best stuff. Yeah, I have a bunch of books that DeMatteis wrote letters in. There is also a Bob Rodi who got a lot of letters in. Is he the same as Robert Rodi who I think wrote a few books in the early 00s, like that "Codename:Knockout" business. I'd have to imagine so. Writing good correspondence seems to go hand in glove with being able to write in general. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 21, 2014 18:46:49 GMT -5
Irene Vartanoff has her own site: irenevartanoff.wordpress.com/and Delmo "The Saint" Walters Jr has made a lateral move over to Amazon and critiques books and DVDs there: www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ADOCCQJCJB750/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pdpI remember reading Batman 207 as a kid and being surprised to see a letter from Fred Hembeck leading off that issue's "Letters to the Bat-Cave". What was equally as surprising was the name of the letter writer who closed out that same issue's column - Klaus Janson. A snippet from Hembeck's missive: "Yes, Batman 204 introduced a new era of Batman to all of comicdom that will (or should, I might say) become the best since the Batman of the forties. Thanks again for bringing back the Batman of old - the TRUE Batman". Actually, Hembeck's plea for a more serious version of Batman seemed to the mantra for many of the letter writers of the era and makes you wonder whether or not Frank Robbins and Irv Novick were creating a demand or responding to one with their work such was the power of the readers at that time. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 13:30:29 GMT -5
"sigh". I know I am old when I remember looking forward to the letters pages. Sometimes the letters were as good as the story.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 26, 2014 17:03:06 GMT -5
Wendy Pini, under her maiden name, had a letter published in the Silver Surfer, and Richard Pini wrote her and years later the two married and produced Elfquest.
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Post by delmothesaint on Jan 16, 2015 22:11:43 GMT -5
Hey friends, Delmo(The Saint)Walters Jr. here! Amazing what you come across when you Google yourself. I never meant for my letters to be insightful, just wanted to let the people producing the comics I read what I thought of them. I was hoping to follow in the footsteps of other letterhacks who became comic professionals but, that only lasted about 15 minutes. I did some work for Personality Comics and a cover for Femforce, #83.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 16, 2015 22:19:54 GMT -5
Hey friends, Delmo(The Saint)Walters Jr. here! Amazing what you come across when you Google yourself. I never meant for my letters to be insightful, just wanted to let the people producing the comics I read what I thought of them. I was hoping to follow in the footsteps of other letterhacks who became comic professionals but, that only lasted about 15 minutes. I did some work for Personality Comics and a cover for Femforce, #83. Hi Delmo. I remember you from way back (mid 80s I guess) when we both bought our weekly comics from The Bat-Cave on Manhattan's upper east side. Pardon my insightful crack- we were all much younger then. I had no idea you did artwork as well. Hope the intervening years have been kind to you. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 16, 2015 22:33:25 GMT -5
OK, that's just awesome.
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Post by Paradox on Jan 17, 2015 3:29:07 GMT -5
When this topic came up on the CBR Classics board a few years back, I noted that Jim Kingman had written a 2-part online column in which he looked a few of the bigger-name letterhacks from days gone by ... but last time I tried to dig that up, not that long ago, I couldn't find it to save my life. I don't think any of the names you cite were included, though. I didn't recognize the names of most of those he contacted. I seem to remember that column, but it tended towards the '80s guys like The Mad Maple and Mark Haden Fraser, IIRC. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 17, 2015 8:40:53 GMT -5
Some of you may recognize the name Nils Osmar. He appeared frequently in Marvel's letters pages in the late '60s and early '70s, especially in Avengers and X-Men. Nils and I met back in college, where he was teaching a Cartooning course through the UW Experimental College that I eventually ended up helping with. He's self-published several comics over the years, notably A Cartoon History of the Nuclear Arms Race. Thanks to Facebook, we've gotten back in touch. These days he's focused more on filmmaking than comics.
Cei-U!
I summon the blast from my past!
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Post by paulie on Jan 17, 2015 8:45:26 GMT -5
Having my cup of of coffee on Saturday morning and scrolling through this page and here we have our erstwhile forum winning yet again.  |
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Post by paulie on Jan 17, 2015 8:48:07 GMT -5
Hey friends, Delmo(The Saint)Walters Jr. here! Amazing what you come across when you Google yourself. I never meant for my letters to be insightful, just wanted to let the people producing the comics I read what I thought of them. I was hoping to follow in the footsteps of other letterhacks who became comic professionals but, that only lasted about 15 minutes. I did some work for Personality Comics and a cover for Femforce, #83. Hi Delmo, Glad you found the post and the forum. This is exactly what I had in mind when I posted this thread. Hope to see you around these parts often. |
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Post by delmothesaint on Jan 17, 2015 20:12:36 GMT -5
Hey friends, Delmo(The Saint)Walters Jr. here! Amazing what you come across when you Google yourself. I never meant for my letters to be insightful, just wanted to let the people producing the comics I read what I thought of them. I was hoping to follow in the footsteps of other letterhacks who became comic professionals but, that only lasted about 15 minutes. I did some work for Personality Comics and a cover for Femforce, #83. Hi Delmo. I remember you from way back (mid 80s I guess) when we both bought our weekly comics from The Bat-Cave on Manhattan's upper east side. Pardon my insightful crack- we were all much younger then. I had no idea you did artwork as well. Hope the intervening years have been kind to you. Do you mean FunnyFarm on 82nd near 3rd Ave? I went there during high school, then changed to Forbidden Planet for a year or so, then Village Comics from 1986 until they went out of business in 2007. Went through a rough patch between 2008-2011 as I was unemployed. Had to stop collecting just as the whole New52 thing happened, which I jokingly refer to as the "lower 48". |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 17, 2015 20:33:43 GMT -5
You called it FunnyFarm? I called it the Bat Cave. I don't think it ever had a name officially but yes on 82nd between 3rd and 2nd and you had to walk down a few steps to enter the store. Run by John with an Italian last name. I too wound up going to Village Comics mainly but also stopping by Forbidden Planet and St. Marks Comics (both still open). And for various reasons, namely price and boredom, I whittled down my comic buying to the point where its now at zippedy doo. The NuZippedy Doo
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