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Roger Slifer is a comics writer who’s worked for both Marvel and DC. He had a short run on the Defenders but he’s best known for writing the Omega Men and co-creating Lobo. He got a letter printed in Astonishing Tales #24 (cover date – June 1974), lending his praise to the title’s It, the Living Colossus feature.

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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 Astonishing Tales #7 (cover date – August 1971), complaining about the letdown that was plugged as the big battle between Doctor Doom and Red Skull.

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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”!

Don McGregor has written a lot of comics. He’s also written a lot of good comics (an important distinction). Two of his most well-regarded runs were the Killraven features from Amazing Adventures (loosely based on H.G. Wells’ the War of the Worlds) and the Black Panther: Panther’s Rage storyline from Jungle Action. His graphic novel, Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species was actually published months before Will Eisner’s A Contract With God (which is widely considered “the first graphic novel”) and went on to later become an ongoing series. McGregor also went on to write non-super-hero comics, which was a bold move, at the time. He got a letter published in Fantastic Four #33 (cover date – December 1964).

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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‘s comic writing credits are quite varied but, I remember him best for his run on the Ultraverse’s Mantra. He got a letter printed in Astonishing Tales #3 (cover date – August 1970), praising the then-new title.

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Todd Nauck‘s fun art stylings have graced the pages of the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Supreme, Youngblood, the Legion of Super-Heroes, Young Justice and many other high-profile books. His letter, printed in Archangels: the Saga #3 (cover date: August 1996), lent some praise to the independent series.

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Charles S. Novinskie served as Topps Comics’ sales and promotions manager. He’s written articles for Comics Interview and Star Wars Galaxy Magazine. Novinskie was also the editor on Overstreet’s Fan magazine and Topps’ Duckman series. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #350 (cover date – March 1991), wherein he shares his thoughts on the first appearance of the “new Fantastic Four” (Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ghost Rider & Hulk).

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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”!

Charles S. Novinskie served as Topps Comics’ sales and promotions manager. He’s written articles for Comics Interview and Star Wars Galaxy Magazine. Novinskie was also the editor on Overstreet’s Fan magazine and Topps’ Duckman series. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #339 (cover date – April 1990), inquiring about the Super Hero Registration Act (a plot point that Mark Millar reused in Marvel’s Civil War).

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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”!

Charles S. Novinskie served as Topps Comics’ sales and promotions manager. He’s written articles for Comics Interview and Star Wars Galaxy Magazine. Novinskie was also the editor on Overstreet’s Fan magazine and Topps’ Duckman series. He got a letter printed in Fantastic Four #320 (cover date – November 1988).

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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”!

Stan Lee lends another encouraging letter to Fantastic Four #281 (cover date – August 1985).

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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”!

Barry Dutter wrote for Marvel Comics in the early 1990s, mostly for their licensed titles like Beavis & Butt-Head, Captain Planet, Ren & Stimpy and the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. He got a letter published in Fantastic Four #273 (cover date: December 1984), establishing himself as the world’s biggest She-Hulk hater.

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