In order to track down exactly when I’d interviewed Steve Gerber, I pulled out my back issues of the Marvel Comics fan magazine FOOM, and you know what happens once I pull out old magazines. I can’t resist reading them.

Among the many intriguing things I found was this blurb in the “Department of Infoomation” of FOOM #10, the June 1975 issue, which explained a bit more about the Scarecrow comic that never was, filling in some of the blanks about the Don Perlin splash page I’d forgotten I’d even owned.

It’s also the only place I’ve ever seen a third issue mentioned. Wonder what I’d meant by “supernatural turns super-hero”?

I’m guessing Ruben Yandoc was meant to have drawn the story meant to be introduced by that Perlin splash I’d found. Did Yandoc ever draw it? Did I ever even plot it?

I don’t think so, but I honestly can’t remember for sure. When I walked away from comics, and disposed of most of my collection, I think I suppressed many of my memories at the same time. For all I know, there could be a typed plot in a box in the basement. If I ever find one, I’ll certainly share it here for what few Scarecrow fans there are out there.

That blurb at the top will be of interest to Gerber and Omega fans. What kind of a vague tease is that? Was Marvel being deliberately coy, or did we truly not know what Steve had planned?

Yet another mystery in an unending string of Marvel mysteries …