{"id":2117,"date":"2011-02-17T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:06:00","slug":"famous-fanmail-46-dan-slott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/famous-fanmail-46-dan-slott\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #46 Dan Slott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">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 <em>what <\/em>they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Adding to the fake authenticity, letters pages were created for the Marvels Comics one-shots that asked the question: &#8220;What would Marvel Comics be like <em>in <\/em>the Marvel Universe?&#8221; Interestingly enough, one of the letters was from a Danny Slott, purported to be age 9. Now, by this time <strong>Dan Slott <\/strong>hadn&#8217;t reached the heights of fame he&#8217;s since achieved but he <em>had <\/em>already been working for Marvel, for some time. So, this leads me to believe it was some kind of inside joke amongst creators\/editors\/assistant editors. This letter comes from <em>Marvels Comics: Thor<\/em> #1 (cover date: July 2000).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/marvels-comics-thor-1-letters.jpg\" alt=\"Marvels Comics: Thor letters page with Dan Slott\" title=\"Marvels Comics: Thor letters page with Dan Slott\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22thor%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Thor<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22dan+slott%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Dan Slott<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;! Adding to the fake authenticity, letters pages were created for the Marvels Comics one-shots that asked the question: &#8220;What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}