{"id":7499,"date":"2012-09-12T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2012-09-12T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:02:38","slug":"i-belonged-i-belonged-i-belonged-i-belonged-to-the-merry-marvel-marching-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/12\/i-belonged-i-belonged-i-belonged-i-belonged-to-the-merry-marvel-marching-society\/","title":{"rendered":"I belonged, I belonged, I belonged, I belonged to the Merry Marvel Marching Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, I joined the Merry Marvel Marching Society the moment its existence was announced in the pages of the comics. Yes, I was that much of a Marvel fanboy, even though the term fanboy hadn’t been invented yet. But considering how<\/em> I joined, it’s surprising I ever became<\/em> a member.<\/p>\n

I gathered my pennies, nickels, and dimes, shoved them into an empty Junior Mints box, taped it shut, shoved that into an envelope, taped that shut, and mailed the chunky package off to 625 Madison Avenue. After what seemed like a millennium of waiting, and wondering whether the mess I’d mailed ever made it, my membership kit arrived … including this snazzy button, which I still own, and which I often think of wearing to Comic-Con, stopped only by my fear of the heartache I’d feel if I lost it.<\/p>\n

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But there’s another momento of that membership I’ve lost over the years … and I’m hoping you can help me regain it.<\/p>\n

Over at Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae<\/a>, Nick Caputo has posted an early MMMS ad which reminded me that one of the perks of membership was the “daringly different gimmick” of getting your name published in a actual Marvel Comic.<\/p>\n

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His post also<\/em> reminded me that when, burned out on comics back in the ’80s, I sold 99% of my comics collection, I also sold the comic which had printed my name! <\/p>\n

I believe—but I can’t be 100% certain—that my name appeared in an issue of Tales from Suspense<\/em> which pictured Iron Man battling the Titanium Man on the cover. Or maybe it was a cover that starred Captain America, but had an Iron Man vs. Titanium Man story on the inside. After all these years, who can be sure?<\/p>\n

Any idea whether anyone’s ever put together an Index to all the fans so named in the pages of Marvel Comics? Or—and this is hoping against hope—does anyone have unslabbed copies of that early run of Tales from Suspense<\/em> in poor enough condition that flipping through them to do me a favor wouldn’t immediately lower them in value?<\/p>\n

Sure would love to find a scan of my name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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