{"id":59,"date":"2010-04-08T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-04-08T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:16:19","slug":"famous-fan-mail-1-gordon-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/famous-fan-mail-1-gordon-purcell\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fan Mail #1 Gordon Purcell"},"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>comics they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gordonpurcell.home.comcast.net\/~gordonpurcell\/wsb\/html\/view.cgi-home.html-.html\">Gordon Purcell<\/a> is an artist who&#8217;s done a lot of work in comics, specifically with licensed boks like <em>Star Trek<\/em>, <em>X-Files <\/em>and <em>Indiana Jones<\/em>. Before all that, though, his imagination was captured by <em>Rom<\/em>, a comic book title published by <strong>Marvel Comics<\/strong> based on a robotic toy made by <strong>Parker Brothers<\/strong>. He got a letter published in <em>Rom <\/em>#48 (cover date &#8211; November 1983), which you can read below.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/rom-48-letters.jpg\" alt=\"Rom letters page with Gordon Purcell\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22gordon+purcell%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Gordon Purcell<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22rom%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Rom<\/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 comics they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;! Gordon Purcell is an artist who&#8217;s done a lot of work in comics, specifically with licensed boks like [&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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}