{"id":2418,"date":"2009-08-13T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2009-08-13T06:39:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:39:48","slug":"letters-from-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Letters From Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=2408\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post on Mark Gruenwald<\/a>, here&#8217;s a few pics of the package I received from Marvel Comics back in 1992 to thank me for writing a letter to <em>Quasar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2724.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2724\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"335\" alt=\"IMG_2724\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2724_thumb.jpg\" width=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The envelope in which it arrived, featuring an awesome Spidey address label. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i5.photobucket.com\/albums\/y199\/popculturecorn\/IMG_2725.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2725\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"336\" alt=\"IMG_2725\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2725_thumb.jpg\" width=\"446\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The letter from Kelly Corvese, on equally cool Marvel letterhead. Sure, it&#8217;s a form letter, but who cares when the package also contains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i5.photobucket.com\/albums\/y199\/popculturecorn\/IMG_2726.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2726\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_2726\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2726_thumb.jpg\" width=\"251\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;this? Page 31, issue 32 of Quasar&#8230;as Corvese mentions in his letter, it probably has next to no value as a collectible, but it&#8217;s one of my more prized possessions. <\/p>\n<p>Click on the pic for a slightly larger version. You can read the actual letter I sent in, which is alternately amusing and embarrassing to me. <\/p>\n<p>For the historical record, here&#8217;s the paste-up I received from ANOTHER letter I wrote in to Marvel, this time commenting on some Todd McFarlane issues of his adjectiveless <em>Spider-Man<\/em> title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i5.photobucket.com\/albums\/y199\/popculturecorn\/IMG_2729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_2729\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"334\" alt=\"IMG_2729\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2729_thumb.jpg\" width=\"252\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>That letter features some truly, truly lame jokes on my part. I cringe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post on Mark Gruenwald, here&#8217;s a few pics of the package I received from Marvel Comics back in 1992 to thank me for writing a letter to Quasar. The envelope in which it arrived, featuring an awesome Spidey address label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}