{"id":2880,"date":"2011-05-16T23:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2011-05-16T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T03:09:55","slug":"who-wrote-those-marvel-splash-page-headers-in-the-mid-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/16\/who-wrote-those-marvel-splash-page-headers-in-the-mid-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wrote those Marvel splash page headers in the mid-’70s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The graphic gurus over at Bronze Age Babies<\/a> (which you should be reading daily, of course) were pondering a bit of Marvel Comics arcana today—who wrote those intro blurbs<\/a> that started appearing atop splash pages during the mid-’70s?<\/p>\n

Who do you think?<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s right. Me, when I was an assistant editor back in the Bullpen.<\/p>\n

I didn’t originate the idea—that would have been Stan Lee, who felt that new readers needed an easy entry way into the convoluted Marvel Universe—or start writing them—I’m pretty sure that would have been Roy Thomas—but I wrote enough of them that I included seven examples in a portfolio I put together after I quit my staff job and started looking for a new publishing position elsewhere. Which means that, luckily, I don’t have to rely solely on memory.<\/p>\n

The seven I thought worthy enough to show off were those for the Black Panther<\/em>, Captain Marvel<\/em>, The Champions<\/em>, The Inhumans<\/em>, Killraven<\/em>, Skull the Slayer<\/em>, and the X-Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I guess I figured that these were enough to demonstrate my ability to digest and regurgitate Stan. I believe I did others, though after this length of time I can’t say for sure which ones they would have been.<\/p>\n

Does that answer your question, you Bronze Age Babies, you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The graphic gurus over at Bronze Age Babies (which you should be reading daily, of course) were pondering a bit of Marvel Comics arcana today—who wrote those intro blurbs that started appearing atop splash pages during the mid-’70s? Who do you think? Yes, that’s right. Me, when I was an assistant editor back in the […]<\/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":[18,20,84,19],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-roy-thomas","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","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=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}