{"id":14572,"date":"2014-05-01T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14572"},"modified":"2014-05-01T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T15:21:02","slug":"bill-gaines-marie-severin-and-others-praise-al-feldstein-in-the-1972-ec-fan-addict-convention-program-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/01\/bill-gaines-marie-severin-and-others-praise-al-feldstein-in-the-1972-ec-fan-addict-convention-program-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gaines, Marie Severin and others praise Al Feldstein in the 1972 EC Fan Addict convention program book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1972, I attended the first (and as far as I know only) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2009\/02\/27\/where-were-you-in-72\/\">EC Fan Addict Convention<\/a>. Almost every former staffer or freelancer then alive was there, and publisher Bill Gaines, who&#8217;d retained all of the company&#8217;s original artwork, put on one of the greatest art shows I&#8217;ve ever seen at a comic book convention.<\/p>\n<p>The program book was filled with Marie Severin&#8217;s caricatures of her coworkers, as well as the creators&#8217; reminiscences of each other. Because Al Feldstein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2014\/04\/30\/r-i-p-al-feldstein-1925-2014\/\">passed away<\/a> the other day, I scanned the pages that pertained to him so you could all learn why he was a &#8220;reluctant dragon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"ECProgramBookAlFeldstein1\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein1-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein2-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"ECProgramBookAlFeldstein2\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein2-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ECProgramBookAlFeldstein2-760x1024.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find the spread about Will Elder from that program book    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/05\/15\/will-elder-1921-2008\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1972, I attended the first (and as far as I know only) EC Fan Addict Convention. Almost every former staffer or freelancer then alive was there, and publisher Bill Gaines, who&#8217;d retained all of the company&#8217;s original artwork, put on one of the greatest art shows I&#8217;ve ever seen at a comic book [&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":[225,18,58,205,38],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-feldstein","tag-comics","tag-conventions","tag-ec-comics","tag-marie-severin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572","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=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14589,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions\/14589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}