{"id":4347,"date":"2012-07-19T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:46:28","slug":"famous-fanmail-120-mike-w-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/famous-fanmail-120-mike-w-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #120 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>&#8216;s comic writing credits are quite varied but, I remember him best for his run on the Ultraverse&#8217;s <em>Mantra<\/em>. He got a letter printed in <em>Astonishing Tales<\/em> #3 (cover date &#8211; August 1970), praising the then-new title.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/astonishing-tales-03-barr.jpg\" alt=\"Astonishing Tales letters page with Mike W. Barr\" title=\"Astonishing Tales 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=%22astonishing+tales%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Astonishing Tales<\/a> |  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22mike+w.+barr%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Mike W. Barr<\/a><br \/>\n<u>On AtomicAvenue<\/u>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&amp;T=astonishing+tales&amp;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Astonishing Tales<\/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&#8216;s comic writing credits are quite varied but, I remember him best for his run on the [&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-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}