{"id":8880,"date":"2012-12-25T21:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T02:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2012-12-25T21:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T02:48:54","slug":"medusa-and-the-thing-welcome-me-to-my-first-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/25\/medusa-and-the-thing-welcome-me-to-my-first-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Medusa and The Thing welcome me to my first convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Howe,  whose history of Marvel Comics in the \u201970s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/07\/13\/my-strangest-moment-so-far-at-comic-con-2012\/\"><em>Marvel Comics: The Untold Story<\/em><\/a>, was one of my favorite reads of the year&#8212;how could it not be? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/07\/13\/my-strangest-moment-so-far-at-comic-con-2012\/\">I was <em>there<\/em><\/a>&#8212;shared <a href=\"http:\/\/seanhowe.tumblr.com\/post\/38417276180\/poster-for-1970-comic-art-convention-by-gray\">this poster<\/a> the other day for Phil Seuling&#8217;s 1970 Comic Art Convention. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1970ComicArtConventionPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1970ComicArtConventionPoster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"1970ComicArtConventionPoster\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1970ComicArtConventionPoster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1970ComicArtConventionPoster.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen it in decades, and boy, did it  bring back memories. Because as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/06\/13\/you-never-forget-your-first-con\/\">I&#8217;ve already told you<\/a>, I was there, too.<\/p>\n<p>It was my first convention, one at which I met many who would eventually become part of my  karass.<\/p>\n<p>And now you&#8217;ll have to to excuse me &#8230; I think I&#8217;ve got something in my eye &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Howe, whose history of Marvel Comics in the \u201970s, Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, was one of my favorite reads of the year&#8212;how could it not be? I was there&#8212;shared this poster the other day for Phil Seuling&#8217;s 1970 Comic Art Convention. I hadn&#8217;t seen it in decades, and boy, did it bring back [&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":[18,58],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","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=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}