{"id":39703,"date":"2026-10-16T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=39703"},"modified":"2026-10-17T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:28:53","slug":"why-not-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2026\/10\/16\/why-not-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened? Episode 35: How Jim Steranko Helped Me Have a 50th Anniversary Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode wrangles with some recent comics-related thoughts, including how Jim Steranko helped me have a 50th anniversary dinner, the surprising way George Lucas secretly surprised us all, my delight over a newly discovered 1972 photo of me hanging out with Howard Chaykin, how Paul Levitz&#8217;s new book about Marvel&#8217;s explosive growth proves everything I always thought about my comics career was correct, deciding what to do with my guilt over the life and death of E. Nelson Bridwell, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can sign up for my nostalgia trip via the embed below or <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1775481331\">download the episode  at the site of your choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/43336589\/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 are a few images related this episode&#8217;s topics &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jay Kay Klein&#8217;s 1972 Lunacon Photo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ScottEdelmanHowardChaykin.jp2-copy.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ScottEdelmanHowardChaykin.jp2-copy-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ScottEdelmanHowardChaykin.jp2-copy-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ScottEdelmanHowardChaykin.jp2-copy-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ScottEdelmanHowardChaykin.jp2-copy.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Howard Chaykin in the center, and going to his left, his first wife Daina Graziunas, Steve Skeates, my first comics friend Dave Simons, and then hairy hippie me.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jim Steranko&#8217;s four-page splash<\/strong><br \/>\n<em> originally published in Strange Tales #167 (April 1968)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SterankoFourPageSpread.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SterankoFourPageSpread-300x117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SterankoFourPageSpread-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SterankoFourPageSpread-1024x398.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SterankoFourPageSpread-768x299.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SterankoFourPageSpread.png 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Incredible Science Fiction #33<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Wally Wood&#8217;s original cover art sold for $26,450 in 2003<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IncredibleScienceFiction33.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IncredibleScienceFiction33-215x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IncredibleScienceFiction33-215x300.webp 215w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IncredibleScienceFiction33.webp 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Me and Paul Levitz in 1974 and 2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ScottEdelmanPaulLevitz19742018.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ScottEdelmanPaulLevitz19742018-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ScottEdelmanPaulLevitz19742018-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ScottEdelmanPaulLevitz19742018-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ScottEdelmanPaulLevitz19742018-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ScottEdelmanPaulLevitz19742018.jpeg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>E. Nelson Bridwell: First Fan<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>An excerpt from the book by writer Reed Tucker and artist Dylan Mitchell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ENelsonBridwellFirstFan.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ENelsonBridwellFirstFan-189x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ENelsonBridwellFirstFan-189x300.webp 189w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ENelsonBridwellFirstFan.webp 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode wrangles with some recent comics-related thoughts, including how Jim Steranko helped me have a 50th anniversary dinner, the surprising way George Lucas secretly surprised us all, my delight over a newly discovered 1972 photo of me hanging out with Howard Chaykin, how Paul Levitz&#8217;s new book about Marvel&#8217;s explosive growth proves everything I [&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-39703","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\/39703","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=39703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39727,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39703\/revisions\/39727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}