{"id":17774,"date":"2009-12-26T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17774"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:07:27","slug":"the-scarecrow-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/26\/the-scarecrow-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scarecrow that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Andrew Hutchins, who seems to be the world&#8217;s number-one fan of The Scarecrow, a comic I wrote for Marvel in the mid-&#8217;70s, has sent along this ad which offered subscriptions to the book, and to other comics which were never published. (I explained the on-again off-again nature of the character&#8217;s publication history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2009\/08\/15\/the-unseen-scarecrow-of-don-perlin\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Though the title had appeared on Marvel&#8217;s internal calendar, I&#8217;d forgotten that a public solicitation had actually appeared before the horror implosion occurred and killed the series. Click on the scan below to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScarecrowSubscriptionAd1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScarecrowSubscriptionAd1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"ScarecrowSubscriptionAd\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScarecrowSubscriptionAd1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScarecrowSubscriptionAd1.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people bothered to send in the $3.50? And  when the comic they wanted became a stillborn, which title they chose instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Andrew Hutchins, who seems to be the world&#8217;s number-one fan of The Scarecrow, a comic I wrote for Marvel in the mid-&#8217;70s, has sent along this ad which offered subscriptions to the book, and to other comics which were never published. (I explained the on-again off-again nature of the character&#8217;s publication history here.) Though [&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":[18,20,29,136],"class_list":["post-17774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-my-writing","tag-scarecrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774","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=17774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17778,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}