{"id":8037,"date":"2012-10-15T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2012-10-15T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:24:45","slug":"a-newly-discovered-convention-photo-of-me-from-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/15\/a-newly-discovered-convention-photo-of-me-from-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"A newly discovered convention photo of me from 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comic book artist Mike Zeck<\/a>—who drew the Drax the Destroyer\/Thanos story I’d written that was published a lifetime ago in Logan’s Run<\/em> #6<\/a>, recently uploaded to Facebook some photos he’d taken at the 1971 Phil Seuling 4th of July Comic Art Convention. (They’re here<\/a>, but unless you’re Facebook friends with him, I don’t think you can see them.) <\/p>\n

I enlarged his pics of the dealers room until they were nothing but pixels, because I was on the hunt for a very special photo—one of me and Irene from the years before we met on my first day at work at Marvel Comics. I’ve always hoped that serendipity<\/a> would deliver to me a photo of us in the same room at some early con, perusing boxes of comics, unaware of each other’s presence, blind to the future that lay ahead.<\/p>\n

When I mentioned this to Mike, he sent along his outtakes, and though I didn’t find that Holy Grail of me and Irene, I did come across one photo which included me in the crowd. Check it out below and see if you can spot me.<\/p>\n

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Did you find me? Probably not. I’m a little … incomplete. So let me give you a hint.<\/a><\/p>\n

Got it figured it out now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comic book artist Mike Zeck—who drew the Drax the Destroyer\/Thanos story I’d written that was published a lifetime ago in Logan’s Run #6, recently uploaded to Facebook some photos he’d taken at the 1971 Phil Seuling 4th of July Comic Art Convention. (They’re here, but unless you’re Facebook friends with him, I don’t think you […]<\/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":[58,250,249],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-mike-zeck","tag-phil-seuling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","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=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}