{"id":4418,"date":"2012-08-09T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T23:14:31","slug":"famous-fanmail-123-roger-slifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/famous-fanmail-123-roger-slifer\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #123 Roger Slifer"},"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>Roger Slifer <\/strong>is a comics writer who&#8217;s worked for both Marvel and DC. He had a short run on <em>the Defenders <\/em>but he&#8217;s best known for writing <em>the Omega Men <\/em>and co-creating <strong>Lobo<\/strong>. He got a letter printed in <em>Astonishing Tales<\/em> #24 (cover date &#8211; June 1974), lending his praise to the title&#8217;s <strong>It, the Living Colossus <\/strong>feature. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/astonishing-tales-24-slifer.jpg\" alt=\"Astonishing Tales letters page with Roger Slifer\" title=\"Astonishing Tales letters page with Roger Slifer\" \/><\/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=%22roger+slifer%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Roger Slifer<\/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;! Roger Slifer is a comics writer who&#8217;s worked for both Marvel and DC. He had a short run on [&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-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","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=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}