{"id":760,"date":"2011-02-17T21:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:34:56","slug":"foom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/editing\/foom\/","title":{"rendered":"FOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a hardcore comics fan, getting to  edit <em>FOOM<\/em>, the official Marvel Comics fan magazine, was like being given the keys to the candy store. How young was I when I first drank the Marvel Kool-Aid? I can still remember that day at the newsstand when I was unable to decide whether to spend my 12 cents of <em>X-Men<\/em> #1 or <em>The Avengers<\/em> #1.<\/p>\n<p>I edited FOOM while working at Marvel as one of the staff Assistant Editors. I began with issue #8, the Winter 1974 issue, taking over from Tony Isabella, and continued editing the magazine through issue #11.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case the &#8217;70s don&#8217;t seem ancient enough&#8212;and to make everyone else feels as old as I do at considering that span of time&#8212;take a look at this excerpt from one of the articles I commissioned, &#8220;How to Collect Marvel Comics:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re looking for <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> #1 in mint condition, expect to pay between $125.00 and $150.00. <em>Spider-Man<\/em> #1 fetches between $50.00 and $75.00. Likewise <em>Amazing Fantasy<\/em> #15. <em>Avengers<\/em> #1 in mint will cost you $15.00 to $20.00. Even more recent important titles, like <em>Conan<\/em> #1, will run you $7.50 or $9.00 in perfect shape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a hardcore comics fan, getting to edit FOOM, the official Marvel Comics fan magazine, was like being given the keys to the candy store. How young was I when I first drank the Marvel Kool-Aid? I can still remember that day at the newsstand when I was unable to decide whether to spend my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761,"parent":41,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-760","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/760\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}