{"id":3323,"date":"2011-11-17T10:04:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2011-11-25T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:04:29","slug":"famous-fanmail-86-don-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/famous-fanmail-86-don-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #85 Don McGregor"},"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>Don McGregor <\/strong>has written a lot of comics. He\u2019s also written a lot of good comics (an important distinction). Two of his most well-regarded runs were the Killraven features from <em>Amazing Adventures <\/em>(loosely based on H.G. Wells\u2019 the War of the Worlds) and the Black Panther: Panther\u2019s Rage storyline from <em>Jungle Action<\/em>. His graphic novel, <em>Sabre: Slow Fade of an Endangered Species<\/em> was actually published months before Will Eisner\u2019s <em>A Contract With God <\/em>(which is widely considered \u201cthe first graphic novel\u201d) 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<\/em> #74 (cover date &#8211; May 1968).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/fantastic-four-0074-mcgregor.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Don McGregor\"  title=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Don McGregor\" \/><\/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=%22don+mcgregor%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Don McGregor<\/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;! Don McGregor has written a lot of comics. He\u2019s also written a lot of good comics (an important distinction). [&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-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","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=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}