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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

John Carbonaro was a comic fan who purchased the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents from Tower Comics and then went on to form his own publishing company, JC Comics. Through JC Comics, John launched two short-lived T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents series in the mid-1980s. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #136 (cover date – July 1973), where he talked a lot about the FF’s costumes.

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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

Jim Rohn is an indy creator best known for the Holo Brothers. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #134 (cover date – May 1973), praising John Buscema’s art.

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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

Chuck Dixon‘s footprint on the world of comics is Hulk-sized. He’s had extensive runs on Batman, Punisher, Alien Legion, and Airboy. He’s also had his hands in lots of other titles including playing a significant role in the development of the Crossgen Universe. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #131 (cover date – February 1973). In the letter, he reveals that he was about to quit reading Marvel Comics but, Fantastic Four #127 convinced him otherwise.

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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

Mike W. Barr is a prolific comics writer that’s had his hands in Marvel, DC and creator-owned works. He’s written mainstays like Batman and Spider-Man for the big publishers, and he’s created well-regarded independents like the Maze Agency and the Ultraverse’s Mantra. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #131 (cover date – February 1973), imploring the writers to send Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) to college.

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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

Writer and editor, Bob Rozakis, is known as DC’s “Answer Man” but, in the 1970s he was reading at least one Marvel Comic that we know of. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #116 (cover date – November 1971), imploring the writers to send Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) to college.

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Fantastic Four #103 (cover date – October 1970) features a surly letter from Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon – and fellow astronauts “Buzz” Aldrin & Michael Collins. Was it really from them? Who knows?!

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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

Alan Kupperberg is a comics creator who’s written fill-in issues for Captain America, Iron Man, and other Marvel titles. He’s also illustrated fill-in issues of Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Captain America, the Defenders, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider and many other Marvel titles. He had some short runs as the artist on titles like the Invaders and Thor and he was the artist on the Ice Man mini-series of the 1980s. He’s the only guy you can hold responsible for the one-shot, Obnoxio the Clown vs. the X-Men. Before his career began in the mid-1970s, he got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #101 (cover date – August 1970). Here, he weighed in the controversy of changing the name to the Fantastic Five to account for Crystal joining the team.

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You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what they were reading. Here’s a look at “Famous Fanmail”!

J.M. DeMatteis has written some of my favorite, gone-too-soon comics. He wrote the third Man-Thing series from Marvel’s short-lived Strange Tales line of comics. Unfortunately, the final parts of that story were written (and I think some even pencilled) but never published. A few years later, he wrote the whimsical (And Wizard of Oz inspired) Abadazad, published by CrossGen. And, when that comic publisher folder, it was snapped up by Disney. Hmmm… Disney now owns Marvel Comics so maybe there’s hope they’ll revive this fantastic series. Anyway, he got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #101 (cover date – August 1970).

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Yet another letter from writer, Don McGregor, to the Fantastic Four. This one was published in Fantastic Four #91 (cover date – October 1969). Unlike his last letter, this one is praising the improvement he’s noticed in the series.

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Here’s another letter from writer, Don McGregor, to the Fantastic Four. This one was published in Fantastic Four #86 (cover date – May 1969).

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