{"id":5345,"date":"2012-01-29T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2012-01-29T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T21:25:57","slug":"happy-69th-birthday-steve-skeates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/29\/happy-69th-birthday-steve-skeates\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 69th birthday, Steve Skeates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Skeates\">Steve Skeates<\/a>&#8212;the comics writer responsible for the first Marvel\/DC crossover, one that not only  took place in the final issues of two titles he wrote, but was also  basically done without the powers that be at either company being aware of it&#8212;turned 69 today. (Consider yourself awarded a No Prize if you know which two comics those were without having to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dialbforblog.com\/archives\/162\/\">look it up<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Steve!<\/p>\n<p>Steve was of a previous comics generation than me&#8212;hey, he co-created <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawk_and_Dove\">Hawk and Dove<\/a> with Steve Ditko!&#8212;so we never got a chance to work together professionally, but I did score an autograph  from him during my snotty kid with a sketchpad phase of fandom.<\/p>\n<p>The drawing below was probably done at a convention in 1971, but if not then, surely no later than 1972.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SteveSkeatesSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SteveSkeatesSketch-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SteveSkeatesSketch\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SteveSkeatesSketch-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SteveSkeatesSketch-585x1024.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SteveSkeatesSketch.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to  prove yourself <em>really<\/em> worthy of that No Prize? Then explain the relevance of that rather anxious-looking fish without <a href=\"http:\/\/comicattack.net\/2011\/08\/is-32-phase\/\">looking it up<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Skeates&#8212;the comics writer responsible for the first Marvel\/DC crossover, one that not only took place in the final issues of two titles he wrote, but was also basically done without the powers that be at either company being aware of it&#8212;turned 69 today. (Consider yourself awarded a No Prize if you know which two [&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":[151,18],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","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=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}