{"id":35919,"date":"2024-11-06T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35919"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:13:13","slug":"why-not-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/06\/why-not-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened? Episode 6: A Highly Redacted 1978 DC Comics Poker Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the future seeming bleak, I felt the need to gaze into the past instead, sharing about the day in 1970 I met Jim Steranko, the reason I continually cause archivists to cry, my day trip to see Steve Ditko&#8217;s pre-Marvel sketch of Dr. Strange, my night at a highly redacted 1978 DC Comics poker game, which writing of mine Barry Malzberg immediately suggested I burn, the thickness of time at the 1979 Clarion Science Fiction Writing Workshop, why, when, and where I intend to destroy fifty years of journals, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33825087\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here, however, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/a-highly-self-indulgent-history-of-readercon\/\">a few journal entries<\/a> you <em>can<\/em> read.<\/p>\n<p>As well as a couple of images related to the episode &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>My autographed copy of the Steranko Portfolio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SterankoAutograpgh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SterankoAutograpgh-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SterankoAutograpgh-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SterankoAutograpgh-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SterankoAutograpgh.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A surreptitious 2018 photo with Jim Steranko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SterankoBalticon2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the future seeming bleak, I felt the need to gaze into the past instead, sharing about the day in 1970 I met Jim Steranko, the reason I continually cause archivists to cry, my day trip to see Steve Ditko&#8217;s pre-Marvel sketch of Dr. Strange, my night at a highly redacted 1978 DC Comics poker 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