{"id":14259,"date":"2008-10-23T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2014-03-19T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T22:29:35","slug":"super-marvel-comics-stationery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/23\/super-marvel-comics-stationery\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Marvel Comics stationery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Comics Reporter<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been wandering <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtzman.typepad.com\/photos\/kurtzman\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Little World of Harvey Kurtzman<\/a>, a site devoted to the first editor of <i>Mad<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m weird (scratch that&#151;I <i>know<\/i> I&#8217;m weird), but I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtzman.typepad.com\/photos\/kurtzman\/21madletter.html\" target=\"_blank\">old <i>Mad<\/i> magazine letterhead<\/a> fascinating.  If you check out the site, you&#8217;ll find other examples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MarvelComicsLetterhead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MarvelComicsLetterhead-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"MarvelComicsLetterhead\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MarvelComicsLetterhead-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MarvelComicsLetterhead-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MarvelComicsLetterhead.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which leads to me believe that maybe I&#8217;m not the only one intrigued by old stationery.  With that in mind, at left is a sheet of Marvel Comics letterhead from the old days when the company was at 635 Madison Avenue, with a detail at right.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember what span of years Marvel would have been at that address, because by the time I started working there in the mid-&#8217;70s, the company was already down the street at 575 Madison Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave it to someone else who has more free time to dig through old comics and figure out exactly when this letterhead would have been in use.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, treat this artifact responsibly, and don&#8217;t go forging any old letters from Marvel staffers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to The Comics Reporter, I&#8217;ve been wandering The Little World of Harvey Kurtzman, a site devoted to the first editor of Mad magazine. Perhaps I&#8217;m weird (scratch that&#151;I know I&#8217;m weird), but I found this old Mad magazine letterhead fascinating. If you check out the site, you&#8217;ll find other examples. Which leads to me [&hellip;]<\/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":[18,20,19],"class_list":["post-14259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259","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=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14261,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions\/14261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}