A Merry Marvel Marching Society mystery—solved!

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  ,     Posted date:  November 6, 2012  |  2 Comments


Remember the Merry Marvel Marching Society mystery I asked for your help in solving two months back? The one about how I’d thought my name had appeared as an M.M.M.S. member in an issue of Tales from Suspense which featured Titanium Man on the cover, though one of you thought my name was actually published in Strange Tales instead?

Well, it turned out I was right all along!

According to Claudio Piccinini, my named appeared (along with 24 other M.M.M.S. members) in Tales of Suspense #69 (September 1965), which featured the first appearance of Titanium Man. I would have been 10 years old.

Mystery solved!





2 Comments for A Merry Marvel Marching Society mystery—solved!


Claudio P.

I’m really glad I may have been of help.

So when you wrote the Scarecrow stories you were about just 20 years old? That’s awesome, it’s so well written. A thing I like about the character is that, due to the misfortune he could not have had a continuing series, no one tampered with it in the last years, as they unfortunately did with some other characters (the Son of Satan, Warlock), turning them into caricatures or worse.
Thanks to the presence of the other Scarecrow, the Iron Man foe (from Tales of Suspense: coincidence?), the character fell into a fortunate “limbo”.

I liked the way Roy Thomas re-used it in the 1990s in “The Great Fear” storyline eventually turning him into an ally for Doctor Strange, but I did not like the fact that he made him speak. Its uniqueness came to the frightening fact he did not speak, and laughed. Great work!

    Scott

    Yep—I was born in 1955, and was hired by Marvel at 19. It was, indeed, awesome!