jimjum12 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Here's a couple of older ones. In the late 30's Tip Top Comics ran a monthly cartooning contest in which readers would send in their own cartoons and comic strips. The winners would have their work published in Tip Top each month. Two of the winners from those monthly contests, then only 13 or 14 years old, went on to greatness. (bottom and bottom left respectively) Tip Top Comics 32 (Dec. 1938) Tip Top Comics 36, April 1939 WOW.......GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutant Manatee Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Alan Weiss had a letter printed in Fantastic Four #3. And Kim Thayil the guitarist for Soundgarden had a letter printed in a late silver/early bronze issue of Thor, but I can't recall the exact issue number off the top of my head. I'll have to look for it when I get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromium Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Alan Weiss had a letter printed in Fantastic Four #3. That issue also included a "fan" letter from a "S. Brodsky, Brooklyn" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makmorn Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Warren's had a few in the fan pages.. Creepy #6 Frank Brunner has a letter published in the fan page Creepy #9 Berni Wrightson makes his comics debut with a pin-up showing a man being dragged into a grave by three ghouls. The tombstone in the foreground reads “Berni Wrightson Dec. 15, 1965” Creepy #10 Frank Brunner makes his comic debut on the fan page with a nice skeleton bursting from a grave scene. Creepy #13 Future artist Leslie Cabarga delivers a letter. Creepy #14 Frank Brunner’s second appearance on the fan page depicts an ancient & vampiric Batman! Creepy #18 Future comic writer Tony Isabella sends in a letter stating he “was less than wildly enthusiastic about Tom Sutton’s art while noting that he was a talented newcomer”. Creepy #30 Future comic artist & publisher Bill Black makes his comics debut on the fan page That's just the first 30 or so Creepys, there are plenty more in the other titles (Eerie, Famous Monsters, Vampirella). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Alan Weiss had a letter printed in Fantastic Four #3. That issue also included a "fan" letter from a "S. Brodsky, Brooklyn" Interesting that he was a fan since he also inked the issue! FF#19 had a fan letter from Steve Gerber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant-Man Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I know I saw more than one letter from Cat Yronwode during the Byrne run on FF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I just recently noticed letters in Action #359 from Tony Isabella, Dave Cockrum, and Mark Evanier. Interesting that they were all in the same issue. Isabella was talking in a panel and said back in the day, they would write a ton of regular and ghost letters to make it appear the book was being read or something to that degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringfinger Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Cool stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stronguy Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 (edited) Tony Isabella Frank Miller Dave Cockrum (someone already got that one) Buddy Saunders, owner of Lone Star Comics (in Avengers #3 I think). Buddy's got letters in several: Adventures of the Fly 23 Amazing Spider-Man 3, 8, 24 Atom 4, 6, 13 Fantastic Four 9 Mystery in Space 80, 82 Strange Adventures 145, 162 Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane 37 Has anybody compiled a master list of notable letter column appearances? I'd like to set these up as a searchable field in our database. ASM 3... that's the one I remembered. He's also got one in Avengers 6. As far as I know there is nowhere close to a good list. I used to not it when cataloging book but stopped after awhile. Edited September 4, 2009 by Stronguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HouseofComics.Com Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Some issues in ComicBase do note letters. Like it might say "Mark Evanier LOC" as one of the notes for one of the issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Tony Isabella Frank Miller Dave Cockrum (someone already got that one) Buddy Saunders, owner of Lone Star Comics (in Avengers #3 I think). Buddy's got letters in several: Adventures of the Fly 23 Amazing Spider-Man 3, 8, 24 Atom 4, 6, 13 Fantastic Four 9 Mystery in Space 80, 82 Strange Adventures 145, 162 Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane 37 Has anybody compiled a master list of notable letter column appearances? I'd like to set these up as a searchable field in our database. ASM 3... that's the one I remembered. He's also got one in Avengers 6. As far as I know there is nowhere close to a good list. I used to not it when cataloging book but stopped after awhile. I'd wager that the letter Buddy Saunders most remembers writing was the one in Mystery in Space 75....he won the original art to an entire Adam Strange story for that one. GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Made a couple of discoveries... I just cracked my BB 34 out of its tomb and read it for the first time, and was delighted to discover that it had a letter from Roy Thomas commenting on the prospect of DC resurrecting Hawkman. Apparently he had heard about it ahead of time. He suggested that they get Joe Kubert to draw it! I guess this was a foreshadowing of his editorial skills. Second, I was reading a copy of Captain Action 5 (which by the way is one of the worst comics I've ever stumbled on) and it had letters by both Martin Pasko and Klaus Jansen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telerites Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I know this is an old thread but didn't want to start a new one for this. I was going through some books and ran across one of Roy Thomas' letters. This one is from JLA #33. What I thought was cool is that he must have taken over as the editor of Alter ego. Kind of a fun nostalgic read. CGC does note the Thomas letter on slabbed copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philreal Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Thanks for sharing, I dug out my copy to read. I didn't realize he went to work for DC the same year his letter was published at the rip old age of 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the authority Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I just read the entire thread. That was a lot of fun. Thanks to all who contributed to it. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Beau He was so proud of that Fantastic Four issue with the George R.R. Martin letter. Even got it signed by him. Great thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 interesting thread! FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Ken81 Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 On 9/3/2009 at 11:40 PM, Real Frantic One said: I just recently noticed letters in Action #359 from Tony Isabella, Dave Cockrum, and Mark Evanier. Interesting that they were all in the same issue. Dont forget the letter in that same issue by Martin Pasko (aka "Pesky Pasko"). Cant remember who did what ,but between him and Evanier, one worked on the Garfield & Friends animated series and the other on Batman:Mask of the Phantasm. Also, one of Dave Sim's letters is in Superman #203(Feb.1968) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archivist Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 On 9/4/2009 at 7:44 AM, mycomicshop said: Has anybody compiled a master list of notable letter column appearances? I'd like to set these up as a searchable field in our database. I know I'm a little late to the party, but is your request still valid ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona smith Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Dave Micheline has a few letters published as well if I recall correctly. Went on to write several comics. Not sure what comics though. Added the two HOM’s that McFarlane had published letters in to my want list. I mean it’s pretty apparent he was heavily influenced by Kaluta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
