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”!
Bud Plant has played a notable part in comics history. In the 1970s, he opened a comic store called Comics & Comix and he also published underground comix, most notably Jack Katz‘ First Kingdom. A decade later, his company, Alternate Realities, was a major distributor of comics on the West Coast, which he later sold off to Diamond Distributors (currently the only major distributor of comics). But, before all that, his imagination was captured by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby’s run on Thor, Marvel’s version of the Norse god of thunder. He got a letter published in Thor #169 (cover date – October 1969), which you can read below.
I find it worth noting that his letter, which suggests that the creators leave Galactus to books like Fantastic Four, was printed in an issue prominently featuring that very same character!
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