{"id":20439,"date":"2015-08-27T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20439"},"modified":"2015-08-27T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T14:21:11","slug":"how-it-all-began-for-me-at-marvel-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/27\/how-it-all-began-for-me-at-marvel-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"How it all began for me at Marvel Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2014\/04\/27\/slicing-and-dicing-marvels-british-reprint-comics\/\">plenty<\/a> from me in the past about what it was like to edit Marvel&#8217;s British reprint books, which was the job that started my professional career in comics, but what you really need to complete the picture is a few other voices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Cover-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"BackIssueMagazine83Cover\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Cover-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Cover.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest issue of <em>Back Issue<\/em> magazine, Dewey Cassell, who&#8217;d previously interviewed me  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/09\/08\/wanna-know-more-about-the-scarecrow\/\">about the Scarecrow<\/a> and a variety of other topics, not only got me to chat about those early days at 575 Madison Avenue, but also tracked down old pal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2014\/09\/29\/yet-another-piece-of-never-before-reprinted-scarecrow-art\/\">Howard Bender<\/a> and recent Hugo Award nominee Steve Stiles, two artists who drew some of the covers and extra splash pages that were needed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there&#8217;s my smiling face on the first page of his article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Interior-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"BackIssueMagazine83Interior\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Interior-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/BackIssueMagazine83Interior.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to know more about those of us who added a bit of &#8220;colour&#8221; to Marvel&#8217;s British reprint books in the &#8217;70s, you can buy a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;products_id=1194\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excelsior!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard plenty from me in the past about what it was like to edit Marvel&#8217;s British reprint books, which was the job that started my professional career in comics, but what you really need to complete the picture is a few other voices. 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