{"id":39814,"date":"2026-11-07T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=39814"},"modified":"2026-11-07T22:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:53:58","slug":"the-scarecrow-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2026\/11\/07\/the-scarecrow-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scarecrow Unleashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Scarecrow character first appeared in <em>Dead of Night<\/em> #11 (August 1975), but that was only after he <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> appear in several other Marvel magazines &#8212; and I just stumbled across forgotten evidence of one of them.<\/p>\n<p>His original home was intended to be the black-and-white magazine <em>Monsters Unleashed<\/em>, as this ad from its ninth issue (December 1974) shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScarecrowAdfromMonstersUnleashed9December1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScarecrowAdfromMonstersUnleashed9December1974-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScarecrowAdfromMonstersUnleashed9December1974-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScarecrowAdfromMonstersUnleashed9December1974-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScarecrowAdfromMonstersUnleashed9December1974-768x1046.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ScarecrowAdfromMonstersUnleashed9December1974.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alas, <em>Monsters Unleashed<\/em> was cancelled before that could happen.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he was going to run as a back-up in <em>Giant-Size Werewolf by Night<\/em> \u2026 which also got the axe before he could appear.<\/p>\n<p>After the bad luck that began The Scarecrow&#8217;s birth, I suppose I should have predicted my character wouldn&#8217;t have a long life &#8230; but 19-year-old me was too hopeful for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Scarecrow character first appeared in Dead of Night #11 (August 1975), but that was only after he didn&#8217;t appear in several other Marvel magazines &#8212; and I just stumbled across forgotten evidence of one of them. His original home was intended to be the black-and-white magazine Monsters Unleashed, as this ad from its ninth [&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":[136],"class_list":["post-39814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-scarecrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814","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=39814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39822,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39814\/revisions\/39822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}