{"id":11895,"date":"2013-12-08T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2013-12-08T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:13:54","slug":"so-did-i-write-that-1977-incredible-hulk-coloring-book-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/08\/so-did-i-write-that-1977-incredible-hulk-coloring-book-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"So did I write that 1977 Incredible Hulk coloring book or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back in the ’70s, Marvel’s Sol Brodsky commissioned me to write an Incredible Hulk coloring book. I wrote the script, turned it in, got paid for it … and then never heard a thing about it ever again.<\/p>\n

Not until last week<\/a>, when I spotted a cover from 1977 over at The Marvel Age of Comics<\/a> Tumblr which had me wondering … is that the same coloring book I wrote? I couldn’t be sure, but luckily, within a few hours, Paul Di Filippo alerted me to an eBay auction<\/a>, and I jumped, exercising the Buy Now option so there’d be no chance I’d lose out.<\/p>\n

\"IncredibleHulkColoringBook\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, now that I’ve had a chance to read the thing\u2014all 230 words of it\u2014I’m going to say that this is<\/em> the coloring book I wrote all those years ago. And I’ll keep saying that until someone comes along to contradict me.<\/p>\n

It’s impossible to recognize my style or anyone else’s in the minimal captions of no more than seven words per page, but I do have memories of setting the adventure at the circus. Also, at the time, I was editing, or had recently edited, Marvel’s fan magazine FOOM<\/em><\/a>, which might account for this sound effect\u2014<\/p>\n

\"HulkColoringBookPage1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Plus, I could see myself choosing to place the tale at the Romita Bros. Circus …<\/p>\n

\"HulkColoringBookPage2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… and dropping in Stan the Man’s name as well.<\/p>\n

\"HulkColoringBookPage3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rather tentative evidence on which to hang a credit perhaps, but until some other writer complains, “Hey, Edelman, you’ve got it all wrong,” I’m going to take it.<\/p>\n

Now if I can only figure out who ended up drawing the book! The style is completely unrecognizable to me. <\/p>\n

Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back in the ’70s, Marvel’s Sol Brodsky commissioned me to write an Incredible Hulk coloring book. I wrote the script, turned it in, got paid for it … and then never heard a thing about it ever again. Not until last week, when I spotted a cover from 1977 over at The Marvel Age […]<\/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":[171,285,20,29,19],"class_list":["post-11895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hulk","tag-john-romita","tag-marvel-comics","tag-my-writing","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895","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=11895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11914,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11895\/revisions\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}