{"id":494,"date":"2011-02-14T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:25:47","slug":"amazing-spider-man-annual-11-1977","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/amazing-spider-man-annual-11-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Spider-Man Annual #11 (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the comic books I’ve written, it’s the back-up story in Amazing Spider-Man Annual<\/em> #11 of which I’m most proud. And it’s not entirely because of what’s on the page.<\/p>\n

John Romita, Jr. may be a star now, but back in the ’70s he was seen by many as just John Romita, Sr.’s son, and no one would give him a shot for fear it would be seen as nepotism. But I felt that if there’s one thing worse than nepotism, it’s anti-nepotism<\/em>—not giving work to someone who deserves it out of a fear being accused of abetting nepotism.<\/p>\n

And so I made sure that John, Jr. (who ended up being inked by Al Milgrom) got the chance to draw the six-page Spider-Man story “Chaos At the Coffee Bean!”—which has since, thanks to Jr.’s eventual superstardom, been reprinted numerous times.<\/p>\n

I always knew you had it in you, John!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the comic books I’ve written, it’s the back-up story in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #11 of which I’m most proud. And it’s not entirely because of what’s on the page. John Romita, Jr. may be a star now, but back in the ’70s he was seen by many as just John Romita, Sr.’s son, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495,"parent":30,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}