{"id":15182,"date":"2008-11-09T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:06:24","slug":"happy-57th-birthday-bill-mantlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/09\/happy-57th-birthday-bill-mantlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 57th Birthday, Bill Mantlo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Mantlo<\/a>, a Marvel Comics colorist turned writer who became best known for scripting Micronauts<\/i>, Rom<\/i>, Cloak and Dagger<\/i>, and Alpha Flight<\/i>, turned 57 today. Well … that may be what the wider world thinks of first when they think of Bill, but what I remember most from the days we worked together back at Marvel was his sense of humor.<\/p>\n

Here’s one example—<\/p>\n

When I was putting together the December 1974 issue FOOM<\/i>, Marvel’s fan magazine, I thought it would be fun to run baby pictures of the artists and writers in the news section next to stories about their upcoming projects. I wasn’t going to ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself, so this image of me appeared at the top of the section:<\/p>\n

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

Many other writers and artists cooperated, and handed in photos such as these, which I will leave unidentified for the moment:<\/p>\n

\"FOOMBaby2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FOOMBaby3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FOOMBaby4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FOOMBaby5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FOOMBaby6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So far so good. But what about Bill? <\/p>\n

Oh, he handed me a baby picture, all right … just not quite the one I expected.<\/p>\n

\"FOOMBabyBillMantlo\"<\/a>
\nThe caption I gave to this photo reads: “BILL MANTLO reminds us that you’re only as young as you feel.”<\/p>\n

Happy birthday, Bill!<\/p>\n

As for those unidentified images up above, those are of five writers and artists who worked for Marvel Comics in the mid-’70s—but I’m leaving it up to you to identify them! (And no fair peeking at the copies of FOOM<\/i> #8 which I’m sure you all have close at hand!)<\/p>\n

Just to give you a hint, here are the names of 13 creators working at Marvel at the time:<\/p>\n

Dave Cockrum, Chris Claremont, Steve Gerber, Gil Kane, David Anthony Kraft, Don McGregor, Doug Moench, George Perez, George Roussos, Marie Severin, Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From that list, can you figure out the five names which go with the unidentified photos above? You can click on the images to see them at a larger size, but until the group mind figures it all out, you won’t find any names there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Mantlo, a Marvel Comics colorist turned writer who became best known for scripting Micronauts, Rom, Cloak and Dagger, and Alpha Flight, turned 57 today. Well … that may be what the wider world thinks of first when they think of Bill, but what I remember most from the days we worked together back at […]<\/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":[21,61,20],"class_list":["post-15182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-mantlo","tag-foom","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182","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=15182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15191,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions\/15191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}