{"id":20660,"date":"2015-09-29T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T02:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=20660"},"modified":"2015-09-30T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:10:52","slug":"nostalgia-reigned-at-the-2015-baltimore-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/29\/nostalgia-reigned-at-the-2015-baltimore-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia reigned at the 2015 Baltimore Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each day of this past weekend was split between the Baltimore Book Festival<\/a> and Baltimore Comic-Con<\/a>, and while that first event<\/a> felt forward-thinking, the second was all about the past. Not only did I wander a dealers room in which I recognized every comic published or piece of original art created before 1980 or so, I also managed to catch up with seven people I’d worked beside during my time as a professional in the field.<\/p>\n

And some I hadn’t seen in more than thirty years!<\/p>\n

My nostalgia ride began with artist Ramona Fradon, whose work I’d loved as a child on titles such as Metamorpho<\/em> and Aquaman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Here we are posing with a copy of House of Mystery<\/em> #273<\/a> opened to a story of mine which she drew in 1979! Not only was it a thrill to work with one of my idols, I couldn’t and still can’t imagine any artist more perfectly suited for that particular story.<\/p>\n

After that, I bumped into former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Marv Wolfman—who was my boss exactly forty years ago<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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And if you’d like to see what changes those years have wrought, you can check out a photo of us from those days when dinosaurs walked the Earth here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One table over from Marv in the exhibitors hall was Mike Zeck, who provided the art for what may be most-reprinted story of mine. It was even republished in Marvel’s recent Free Comic Book Day offering<\/a>! <\/p>\n

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I got Mike to pose with that story, a Thanos solo tale, which first appeared back in (gulp!) 1977 in Logan’s Run<\/em> #6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then I ran into another old Marvel Comics pal—Tom Orzechowski, one of the greatest letterers ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Tom also knows—as I told you back in 2010<\/a>—how to play along with a gag.<\/p>\n

The next old friend I encountered I’d first met even earlier than when I started working as a comics professional—Bob Budiansky, with whom I attended SUNY Buffalo, and who then followed me into the field.<\/p>\n

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Bob’s first art job in comics was a Falcon solo story I wrote which was published in Captain America<\/em> #220<\/a> in 1978, and he was quite pleased I didn’t have a copy on hand for us to pose with. I guess that though you<\/em> may never forget your first assignment, sometimes you wish others did<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, I wandered by Walt Simonson’s table to find no Walt but plenty of fans hoping for autographs and sketches. So I walked off, figuring I wouldn’t get a chance to catch up up him. <\/p>\n

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But then, there he was, coming toward the throng, so I stole a few minutes with him and tried to catch up on three decades. Not an easy feat.<\/p>\n

My final nostalgic Baltimore Comic-Con encounter was artist and writer Jim Starlin, who once made up my face like one of his characters for a memorable con panel in the ’70s.<\/p>\n

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That’s right—this face paint<\/a> was applied by the creator of Thanos.<\/p>\n

And with that, I stepped back into my time machine and returned to the 21st Century, where I shall remain until I am borne back ceaselessly into the past by yet another comic book convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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