{"id":18122,"date":"2010-02-22T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2015-01-24T17:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:58:17","slug":"the-secret-origins-of-roger-stern-and-ralph-macchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/22\/the-secret-origins-of-roger-stern-and-ralph-macchio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Origins of Roger Stern and Ralph Macchio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Stern<\/a>—longtime comics editor and writer, known for his scripting on Spider-Man<\/i>, Doctor Strange<\/i>, and The Avengers<\/i>, as well as for helping create the “Death of Superman” storyline.<\/p>\n

Ralph Macchio<\/a>—comics writer turned editor who was in charge of Daredevil<\/i> for more than a decade and who most recently oversaw the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark Tower<\/i> novels into a comics.<\/p>\n

But once … once they were fans.<\/p>\n

I was remembering that thanks to the issues of FOOM<\/i>, Marvel’s fan magazine, that I dug up last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the editorial I wrote for FOOM<\/i> #9, the March 1975 issue, in which I mentioned them both. None of us had any idea of what was to come.<\/p>\n

\"FOOM9Editorial\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, back in those days, Sterno worked for WXLW Radio in Indianapolis and published the fanzine C.P.L.<\/i>, while Ralph was a letterhack who won a contest judged by Don McGregor. Their comics futures still lay ahead.<\/p>\n

Hey, we all have to start somewhere, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Stern—longtime comics editor and writer, known for his scripting on Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and The Avengers, as well as for helping create the “Death of Superman” storyline. Ralph Macchio—comics writer turned editor who was in charge of Daredevil for more than a decade and who most recently oversaw the transformation of Stephen King’s Dark […]<\/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":[18,61,244,573],"class_list":["post-18122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-foom","tag-roger-slifer","tag-roger-stern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122","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=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18124,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions\/18124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}