{"id":16999,"date":"2014-12-22T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16999"},"modified":"2014-12-22T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:14:54","slug":"and-then-there-was-the-time-jim-shooter-called-wolverine-a-runt-and-i-agreed-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/22\/and-then-there-was-the-time-jim-shooter-called-wolverine-a-runt-and-i-agreed-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"And then there was the time Jim Shooter called Wolverine a runt (and I agreed with him)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a Tumblr post<\/a>, I was reminded of a Marvel Bullpen moment I’d completely forgotten. The following response apparently appeared in answer to a reader’s letter about Wolverine’s height, and was published in X-Men<\/em> #103 (cover dated February 1977).<\/p>\n

\"ScottEdelmanXMen103\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Did we really say those things? I’m no longer sure.<\/p>\n

If we didn’t say those things, then who put those words in our mouths? I\u2019m no longer sure of that either.<\/p>\n

It was probably Chris Claremont, as he was writing X-Men<\/em> at the time, and the writer of a book always got first shot at putting together that title’s letters column unless there was a compelling reason against it. But all this time later, I don’t feel comfortable guaranteeing it was him and not one of the Assistant Editors.<\/p>\n

I guess I could always track down Chris and see whether his memory is any better than mine … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a Tumblr post, I was reminded of a Marvel Bullpen moment I’d completely forgotten. The following response apparently appeared in answer to a reader’s letter about Wolverine’s height, and was published in X-Men #103 (cover dated February 1977). Did we really say those things? I’m no longer sure. If we didn’t say those […]<\/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":[59,215,18,216,31,20,573,572],"class_list":["post-16999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archie-goodwin","tag-chris-claremont","tag-comics","tag-dave-cockrum","tag-jim-shooter","tag-marvel-comics","tag-roger-stern","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999","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=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17011,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions\/17011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}