{"id":3030,"date":"2011-10-13T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2011-10-13T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:23:13","slug":"famous-fanmail-80-dave-cockrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/famous-fanmail-80-dave-cockrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #80 Dave Cockrum"},"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>Here&#8217;s another letter from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davecockrum.net\/\">Dave Cockrum<\/a>, X-Men artist. This one was published in <em>Fantastic Four <\/em>#49 (cover date &#8211; April 1966). In it, Cockrum complains about Stan &#038; Jack creating &#8220;continued&#8221; stories. I suppose he&#8217;d prefer all one-and-done tales. He also suggests that the Inhumans get their own series (they later do!)  and comments rather poignantly on Dragon Man.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/fantastic-four-0049-cockrum.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Dave Cockrum\" title=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Dave Cockrum\" \/><\/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=%22dave+cockrum%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Dave Cockrum<\/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;! Here&#8217;s another letter from Dave Cockrum, X-Men artist. This one was published in Fantastic Four #49 (cover date &#8211; [&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-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","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=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}