{"id":653,"date":"2010-06-17T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2010-06-17T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:07:37","slug":"famous-fanmail-11-kurt-busiek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/famous-fanmail-11-kurt-busiek\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fanmail #11 Kurt Busiek"},"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><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.busiek.com\/\">Kurt Busiek<\/a>&#8216;s writing credits are quite extensive but he&#8217;s probably most well-known for his interesting look back through Marvel&#8217;s continuity in <em>Marvels <\/em>as well as his creator-owned titled <em>Astro City<\/em>. He&#8217;s also had significant runs on <em>the Avengers <\/em>and <em>Thunderbolts <\/em>that are still well-regarded today. Prior to hitting it big in the comics industry, he was following the <strong>Champions <\/strong>(among many other books, I&#8217;m sure) and got a letter printed in <em>the Champions <\/em>#12 (cover date &#8211; March 1977).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/champions-12-letters.jpg\" alt=\"Champions letters page with Kurt Busiek\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22champions%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Champions<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22kurt+busiek%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Kurt Busiek<\/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;! Kurt Busiek&#8216;s writing credits are quite extensive but he&#8217;s probably most well-known for his interesting look back through Marvel&#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-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}