{"id":6833,"date":"2008-11-30T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2012-07-04T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T12:49:06","slug":"happy-58th-birthday-chris-claremont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/30\/happy-58th-birthday-chris-claremont\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 58th birthday, Chris Claremont!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisclaremont.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Claremont<\/a>, with whom I worked at Marvel Comics back in the &#8217;70s, turns 58 today.  Chris is perhaps best known for his 16-year run on <i>Uncanny X-Men<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>But Chris wasn&#8217;t always the trusted comics veteran that he is today. When I was editing the Marvel fan magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/editing\/foom\/\"><i>FOOM<\/i><\/a>,  I asked Marie Severin to draw this image  for the June 1975 issue just as Chris was at the beginning of that amazing run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChrisLenDave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChrisLenDave-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ChrisLenDave\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChrisLenDave-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChrisLenDave.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the caption, the image depicts &#8220;What the fans wanted to do to Chris Claremont, Len Wein, and Dave Cockrum for destroying the X-men before they saw the book. Once the finished product was in their hands, they quickly changed their minds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But as I look at the expression of agony on Chris&#8217; face, I suspect that what this picture really shows is how he might be feeling inside today as the realization sinks in that another year has gone by.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Claremont, with whom I worked at Marvel Comics back in the &#8217;70s, turns 58 today. Chris is perhaps best known for his 16-year run on Uncanny X-Men. But Chris wasn&#8217;t always the trusted comics veteran that he is today. When I was editing the Marvel fan magazine FOOM, I asked Marie Severin to draw [&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":[215,18,216,61,50,38,20],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-claremont","tag-comics","tag-dave-cockrum","tag-foom","tag-len-wein","tag-marie-severin","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","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=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}