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Post by electricmastro on Feb 14, 2020 14:09:31 GMT -5
A thread for looking back on letters pages, which were being published in comic books as far back as the 1930s.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 18:11:47 GMT -5
there's a thread on here recently about who's had a letter published. . maybe roll this one into that?
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Post by electricmastro on Feb 14, 2020 21:18:44 GMT -5
there's a thread on here recently about who's had a letter published. . maybe roll this one into that? Ah, which one? |
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Post by urrutiap on Feb 16, 2020 12:38:23 GMT -5
I still enjoy any letter page section in old 1990s comics epspecially the X-Men comics where people even number list their questions about stuff that went on in the previous issues.
Then i question if there's letters that were scripted and made up by some of the writers of the comics themselves
That and George Martin author of the Game of Thrones books he claims he wrote a letter for the old Fantastic Four comic book.
some of those old fan letters in the letters page sections in old comics I half believe they were from fans/readers while some of those letters I think were made up by the staff etc in Marvel, DC, Wizard Magazine, Toyfare
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Post by rberman on Feb 16, 2020 21:44:12 GMT -5
Here's a remarkably astute reader in Detective Comics #395 (January 1970). He predicted: 1) Robin would still be Bruce Wayne's ward. (Nope.) 2) Penguin would no longer be depicted as a smoker (Yep.) 3) Wall-sized TVs and "home computer linkages" would mean that most people imbibe superheroes not on paper, but on video. "Both newspapers and comic books will be up their respective creeks without the appropriate paddles." (Wow, yes.)  |
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Post by electricmastro on Feb 17, 2020 1:30:59 GMT -5
I still enjoy any letter page section in old 1990s comics epspecially the X-Men comics where people even number list their questions about stuff that went on in the previous issues. Then i question if there's letters that were scripted and made up by some of the writers of the comics themselves That and George Martin author of the Game of Thrones books he claims he wrote a letter for the old Fantastic Four comic book. some of those old fan letters in the letters page sections in old comics I half believe they were from fans/readers while some of those letters I think were made up by the staff etc in Marvel, DC, Wizard Magazine, Toyfare Of note, Frank Miller wrote a letter published in The Cat #3 (April, 1973).  |
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Post by electricmastro on Feb 17, 2020 2:01:14 GMT -5
Eastern Color Printing’s Let’s Get Into a Huddle letters page featuring letters from readers writing about liking Buck Rogers (Famous Funnies #23, June 1936).  |
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Post by urrutiap on Feb 17, 2020 12:15:53 GMT -5
Some of the old letters pages in comics from the 1980 are still great and interesting but when theres a huge long wall text of doom it makes the letter look like something of a word definition from a dictionary. Too wordy etc.
I still think some of the "fan" letters in newer comics today are made up by the writers of the new comic books. Just isnt fun anymore these days.
Even the previous Unworthy Thor comic had a letters page but it was a mess trying to read.
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