{"id":2861,"date":"2011-07-28T08:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2011-07-28T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T15:30:57","slug":"famous-fanmail-69-steve-gerber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/famous-fanmail-69-steve-gerber\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #69 Steve Gerber"},"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><strong>Steve Gerber <\/strong>was an important addition to the comics community. Not only did he create <strong>Howard the Duck <\/strong> (and many other characers including Omega the Unknown and Sludge) but he was an early champion for creator&#8217;s rights &#8211; they eventually revolutionized the industry. He got a letter published in <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> #19 (cover date &#8211; October 1963). <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/fantastic-four-0019-gerber.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Steve Gerber\"  title=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Steve Gerber\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22fantastic+four%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Fantastic Four<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22steve+gerber%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Steve Gerber<\/a><br \/>\n<u>On AtomicAvenue<\/u>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=fantastic+four&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Fantastic Four<\/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;! Steve Gerber was an important addition to the comics community. Not only did he create Howard the Duck (and [&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-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","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=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}