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”!
Walter Simonson‘s worked on almost every big-name Marvel & DC super-hero along with his own creator-owned work. His run on Thor in the 1980s (wherein he introduced Beta Ray Bill – one of a small group of characters who can wield Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir) is still upheld as some of the best work the book’s ever seen. More recently, he served as the writer for Wildstorm Comics’ World of Warcraft. But, before he even graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, he had written the following letter to Iron Man. It was published in the letters page (then-named “Sock it to Shell-Head” – oh that wacky Stan Lee!) of Iron Man #10 (cover date – February 1969).
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