{"id":21147,"date":"2015-12-15T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21147"},"modified":"2015-12-15T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:07:04","slug":"how-fans-first-found-out-about-the-scarecrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/15\/how-fans-first-found-out-about-the-scarecrow\/","title":{"rendered":"How fans first found out about The Scarecrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve shared a number of firsts about the Scarecrow since I started blogging, such as who the first artist<\/a> was supposed to be, the first (and perhaps the last) Marvel subscription ad<\/a> featuring the character’s never-published stand-alone book, and Don Perlin’s first page<\/a> to what was supposed to be Scarecrow<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n

And as I skimmed further through that 1974 issue of The Comic Reader<\/em> which I told you about last week<\/a>, I came upon another first—the first time fans would have found out such a character even existed.<\/p>\n

In the Marvel News section, which included a blurb that “a Spider-Man<\/em> live action film and a new TV series are being planned” (for which we’d all have to wait, as that TV show wouldn’t air until 1978, while a film wouldn’t hit theaters for another 28 years), readers wound find this item.<\/p>\n

\"TheComicReader109Scarecrow\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve no idea when the August issue of The Comic Reader<\/em> would have gone to press, but as I started on staff at Marvel on June 24 of that year, I obviously wasn’t there that long before then-editor Len Wein leapt on my idea … even though my name is never mentioned in that announcement.<\/p>\n

And as those familiar with the history of the Scarecrow already know, it never did appear in the pages of Monsters Unleashed<\/em>, nor in its next announced location, as a backup in Giant-Size Werewolf by Night<\/em>, but instead ended up debuting in Dead of Night #11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That wasn’t the only fascinating thing I found in this issue of The Comic Reader<\/em>. Check out this curious factoid about Marvel’s Planet of the Apes<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

\"TheComicReader109PlanetoftheApes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And now we know why Don McGregor<\/a> never got that assignment.<\/p>\n

ba-dum ching!<\/em><\/p>\n

(I kid, Don, I kid! You know I love you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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