{"id":11752,"date":"2013-11-26T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2013-11-26T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T13:49:30","slug":"i-go-to-the-circus-with-the-incredible-hulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/26\/i-go-to-the-circus-with-the-incredible-hulk\/","title":{"rendered":"I go to the circus with the Incredible Hulk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in the ’70s, around the same time I wrote those Mighty Marvel Superheroes Fun Books<\/em><\/a> and The Captain Midnight Action Book for Sports, Fitness and Nutrition<\/em><\/a>, Sol Brodsky commissioned me to write an Incredible Hulk coloring book. <\/p>\n

I wrote it, got paid for it … and then never heard anything about it again. I never knew whether the project had been published or abandoned. I always wondered what happened, though, because I’m a completist of my own work, and so I’d occasionally search online for any mention of the thing. I never had any success, though, and hadn’t thought about the book for years.<\/p>\n

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But then a few days ago, The Marvel Age of Comics<\/a> linked to a cover over at The Vintage Toy Archive<\/a>, and the mystery was over. My script for an Incredible Hulk coloring book had<\/em> gotten published.<\/p>\n

At, least … I think<\/em> it was my script that got used for that 1977 coloring book. I no longer own a copy of the script, and have only vague memories of the plot. Did I write about the Hulk visiting the circus? I think I did, and seem to recall a circus, but I can’t be quite sure. It would make sense, considering the character’s history with the Ringmaster<\/a>. But it could be only a false memory at this point.<\/p>\n

No way to fully solve the mystery until I get my hands on the book itself, or find a site where someone has uploaded all the interior pages. Either of those should spark a few memories. At least I hope they would.<\/p>\n

But considering it’s taken 33 years before I came across even this small crumb of proof, I’m not holding my breath. If you’ve got a copy and can help me out, though, let me know, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in the ’70s, around the same time I wrote those Mighty Marvel Superheroes Fun Books and The Captain Midnight Action Book for Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Sol Brodsky commissioned me to write an Incredible Hulk coloring book. I wrote it, got paid for it … and then never heard anything about it again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,171,20,29,348],"class_list":["post-11752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-hulk","tag-marvel-comics","tag-my-writing","tag-way-back-in-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}