{"id":36042,"date":"2024-11-18T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=36042"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:02:52","slug":"why-not-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/18\/why-not-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened? Episode 8: The Night I Raved to Brent Spiner about Stan Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to list the many things I have to be thankful for, such as being born at the perfect time to witness the birth of the Marvel Universe, what happened the day in 1963 the first issue of both <em>The Avengers<\/em> and <em>The X-Men<\/em> were released and I could afford to buy only one, \u00a0how my belief in anti-nepotism scored John Romita Jr. his first Marvel Comics art assignment, the magical night I raved to Brent Spiner about Stan Lee (and what &#8220;The Man&#8221; himself had to say about it), the first and last Incredible Hulk sketches Marie Severin drew for me 52 years apart, how the most important lesson I learned from being in comics was that I wasn&#8217;t meant to be in comics after all, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33981352\/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>And here are a few things to help illuminate the anecdotes I shared with you in this episode &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marie Severin&#8217;s first sketch for me in 1972<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1972MarieSeverinHulkSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1972MarieSeverinHulkSketch-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1972MarieSeverinHulkSketch-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1972MarieSeverinHulkSketch-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1972MarieSeverinHulkSketch-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1972MarieSeverinHulkSketch-1176x1536.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marie Severin&#8217;s final sketch for me in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MarieSeverin2014HulkSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MarieSeverin2014HulkSketch-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MarieSeverin2014HulkSketch-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MarieSeverin2014HulkSketch-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MarieSeverin2014HulkSketch-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MarieSeverin2014HulkSketch-1536x995.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marie Severin at work in 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y32dydPsVrE?si=aKhcXMO5gkQEGPOr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The splash page to John Romita Jr.&#8217;s first Marvel story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ChaosattheCoffeeBeanPage1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ChaosattheCoffeeBeanPage1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ChaosattheCoffeeBeanPage1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ChaosattheCoffeeBeanPage1.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you can find all the Ethics columns I mentioned having written for <em>The Comics Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/tag\/ethics\/\">here<\/a> in reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to list the many things I have to be thankful for, such as being born at the perfect time to witness the birth of the Marvel Universe, what happened the day in 1963 the first issue of both The Avengers and The X-Men [&hellip;]<\/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":[1018],"class_list":["post-36042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-why-not-say-what-happened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36042","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=36042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36057,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36042\/revisions\/36057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}