{"id":3521,"date":"2012-01-12T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2012-01-12T15:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:18:01","slug":"famous-fanmail-93-mike-w-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/famous-fanmail-93-mike-w-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #93 Mike W. Barr"},"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>Mike W. Barr <\/strong>is a prolific comics writer that&#8217;s had his hands in Marvel, DC and creator-owned works. He&#8217;s written mainstays like Batman and Spider-Man for the big publishers, and he&#8217;s created well-regarded independents like the <em>Maze Agency <\/em>and the Ultraverse&#8217;s <em>Mantra<\/em>. He got a letter printed in <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> #131 (cover date &#8211; February 1973), imploring the writers to send Johnny Storm (aka the <strong>Human Torch<\/strong>) to college. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/fantastic-four-131-barr.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Mike W. Barr\" title=\"Fantastic Four letters page with Mike W. Barr\" \/><\/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=mike+barr&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Mike Barr<\/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;! Mike W. Barr is a prolific comics writer that&#8217;s had his hands in Marvel, DC and creator-owned works. He&#8217;s [&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-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","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=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}