{"id":16705,"date":"2014-12-23T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16705"},"modified":"2014-12-23T23:36:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T04:36:36","slug":"hoppy-the-marvel-bunny-wants-you-to-subscribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/23\/hoppy-the-marvel-bunny-wants-you-to-subscribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoppy the Marvel Bunny wants you to subscribe to Mechanix Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the inside back cover of the <a href=\"http:\/\/comicbookplus.com\/?dlid=54498\">Summer 1945 issue of <em>True Comics<\/em><\/a>, the whole Marvel family&#8212;and that&#8217;s Marvel family as in the original &#8220;Shazam!&#8221; Captain Marvel, not Marvel Comics&#8212;wants you to subscribe to <em>Mechanix Illustrated<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CaptainMarvelPopularMechanix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CaptainMarvelPopularMechanix-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainMarvelPopularMechanix\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CaptainMarvelPopularMechanix-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CaptainMarvelPopularMechanix-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CaptainMarvelPopularMechanix.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the fact <em>Mechanix Illustrated<\/em> was published by Fawcett, the same company that put out  <em>Captain Marvel<\/em>&#8216;s line of comics, had nothing to do with his opinion that any &#8220;wide-awake fellow&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t want to miss an issue.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also in this issue of <em>True Comics<\/em>, an announcement  explaining that wartime paper shortages have forced the publisher to turn their monthly into a quarterly &#8220;while the war lasts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TrueComicsPaperShortage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TrueComicsPaperShortage-300x81.jpg\" alt=\"TrueComicsPaperShortage\" width=\"300\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TrueComicsPaperShortage-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TrueComicsPaperShortage.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew getting sufficient paper was a problem back then, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen this kind of notice in print. That&#8217;s on me, though. I&#8217;m sure there had to have been more of them, and it&#8217;s only the skimpiness of my Golden Age comics collection that&#8217;s prevented me from seeing one before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the inside back cover of the Summer 1945 issue of True Comics, the whole Marvel family&#8212;and that&#8217;s Marvel family as in the original &#8220;Shazam!&#8221; Captain Marvel, not Marvel Comics&#8212;wants you to subscribe to Mechanix Illustrated. I&#8217;m sure the fact Mechanix Illustrated was published by Fawcett, the same company that put out Captain Marvel&#8216;s [&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":[18,13],"class_list":["post-16705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-old-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705","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=16705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17022,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions\/17022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}