{"id":568,"date":"2011-02-14T21:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:21:56","slug":"marvel-tales-100-february-1979","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/marvel-tales-100-february-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Tales #100 (February 1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did a (then) all-new story about Hawkeye and the Two-Gun Kid end up in the back of the 100th issue of the reprint comic <em>Marvel Tales<\/em>? <\/p>\n<p>I had no idea why \u201cKillers of a Purple Rage\u201d ended up there &#8230; at least not until the editor of the book at the time, Roger Stern, explained it all on <a href=\"http:\/\/sterntalk.yuku.com\/topic\/605\/t\/Question-for-Mr-Stern-re-the-Avengers.html\">his message board<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back around 1976, Marvel editorial started commissioning a number of short back-up-sized stories &#8212; partly to audition new talent and partly to help ease some deadline crunches. Scott, Mike (Nasser), and Terry (Austin) had produced that Hawkeye and Two-Gun story and it was sitting on the shelf, when the decision came down in 1978 to make MARVEL TALES #100 a double-sized issue. I had more or less in been charge of the reprint line when I first came to work at Marvel, and at that time I was still overseeing MARVEL TALES.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I decided to plug the story in there, before it became too dated. Plus, I really liked the idea of publishing a new story in what was otherwise a reprint comic. I remember it as being a nice little story, and placing it there helped make the hundredth issue of MARVEL TALES something special.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for shepherding it into print, Sterno!<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;d like a peek at the sstory, check out<a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/bring-on-back-ups-hawkeye-and-two-gun.html\"> <em>Diversions of the Groovy Kind<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did a (then) all-new story about Hawkeye and the Two-Gun Kid end up in the back of the 100th issue of the reprint comic Marvel Tales? I had no idea why \u201cKillers of a Purple Rage\u201d ended up there &#8230; at least not until the editor of the book at the time, Roger Stern, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569,"parent":30,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-568","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/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\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}