{"id":5807,"date":"2010-02-12T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2015-01-19T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:20:39","slug":"yet-another-piece-of-the-scarecrow-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/12\/yet-another-piece-of-the-scarecrow-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another piece of the Scarecrow puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to track down exactly when I’d interviewed Steve Gerber<\/a>, I pulled out my back issues of the Marvel Comics fan magazine FOOM<\/i>, and you know what happens once I pull out old magazines. I can’t resist reading them. <\/p>\n

Among the many intriguing things I found was this blurb in the “Department of Infoomation” of FOOM<\/i> #10, the June 1975 issue, which explained a bit more about the Scarecrow<\/i> comic that never was, filling in some of the blanks about the Don Perlin splash page<\/a> I’d forgotten I’d even owned.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s also the only place I’ve ever seen a third issue mentioned. Wonder what I’d meant by “supernatural turns super-hero”?<\/p>\n

I’m guessing Ruben Yandoc was meant to have drawn the story meant to be introduced by that Perlin splash I’d found. Did Yandoc ever draw it? Did I ever even plot it?<\/p>\n

I don’t think so, but I honestly can’t remember for sure. When I walked away from comics, and disposed of most of my collection, I think I suppressed many of my memories at the same time. For all I know, there could be a typed plot in a box in the basement. If I ever find one, I’ll certainly share it here for what few Scarecrow fans there are out there.<\/p>\n

That blurb at the top will be of interest to Gerber and Omega<\/i> fans. What kind of a vague tease is that? Was Marvel being deliberately coy, or did we truly not know what Steve had planned?<\/p>\n

Yet another mystery in an unending string of Marvel mysteries …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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