{"id":17672,"date":"2009-11-22T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17672"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:44:15","slug":"happy-69th-birthday-roy-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/22\/happy-69th-birthday-roy-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 69th birthday, Roy Thomas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Thomas<\/a>, the first editor-in-chief under whom I served at Marvel Comics, turned 69 today. If he hadn’t brought me on board for my first position working on Marvel’s British reprint books, I likely wouldn’t have ended up where I am today. <\/p>\n

And I’m not just talking about professionally, but personally as well, since otherwise I’d never have met my wife, Irene Vartanoff, who was hired just a couple of months before I was.<\/p>\n

So thanks for everything, Roy!<\/p>\n

Just to show my appreciation, here’s a blast from the past—a letter Roy wrote to Joe Brancatelli’s fanzine Comic Fandom Monthly<\/i> that was printed in its April 1972 issue, in which he debated the merits of the famed Stan Lee at Carnegie Hall<\/i> event. <\/p>\n

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For what it’s worth, I was there that January night, and though I wasn’t one of the unruly fans Joe described, I definitely sided with Roy. We wanted more of the Marvel madmen, and fewer non-comics performances. Though seeing Eddie Carmel<\/a>, “The Jewish Giant,” who I recall being present as sort of a living version of The Hulk, was kind of cool.<\/p>\n

In any case, happy birthday, Roy!<\/p>\n

And thanks again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roy Thomas, the first editor-in-chief under whom I served at Marvel Comics, turned 69 today. If he hadn’t brought me on board for my first position working on Marvel’s British reprint books, I likely wouldn’t have ended up where I am today. And I’m not just talking about professionally, but personally as well, since otherwise […]<\/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":[151,84],"class_list":["post-17672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-roy-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672","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=17672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17676,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions\/17676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}