It's true--I had a letter printed in the Incredible Hulk #225. It's funny--but I can remember reading it, having forgotten that I'd written it, and saying to myself, "Who is this idiot? Oh, crap--it's me!"

Ah well.

Heh

I had a couple of letters printed in Firestorm, one in DC Comics Presents, and one in Action Comics Weekly. It was always thrilling for me as a kid, I felt like a mini celebrity for a second. It is funny to go back and read them all - I was usually full of praise but in DCCP I took them to task for having Air Wave in a short sleeve shirt which he tore off to reveal his full costume underneath. The editor was gentle with me fortunately.

I know I wrote a letter after reading "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" by Rog, which was not printed, I imagine there was a ton of mail for that issue.

There's something cool about letters pages. As neat as it is to go on a message board and actually talk directly to a creator or comment about a comic book--when you get a letter printed in a comic book--you're a participant--a contributer--and that letter will be a permanent part of that comic book. Message boards can't give you that.

I got a letter published in Promethea #3, which was pretty cool. Issue 3 was the first one to have a letters column, and mine was the first letter in it. It was neat.

(And "neat" in this case means "fawning and sycophantic.")

I once wrote a letter to the Dr. Strange comic—never published.

Somewhere there's a New Zealand comic strip anthology, I believe, of Knuckles
the Malevolent Nun, with an email in it written by me. I had an earlier collection
of the strips, and know the author and the artist from another forum, so I wrote
something when told by them that they were going to have a letters page.

A bunch of us on the GSBAMB were writing Roy Thomas and supporting his
Anthem comic book a few years back from Heroic Publishing. He was going to
use them all, I think, but the comic was cancelled before that happened. Still,
it was fun to see the other guys end up in print. Definite "Hey, I know that guy"
moment.

I'll have to go dig up Promethea #3 now.

Knuckles the Malevolent Nun?

Is this what became of Night Nurse after Marvel cancelled her comic?

She looks something like this (a microhero I made of her)

The Knuckles strip was written by Cornelius Stone and drawn by Roger Langridge
(who is currently drawing Muppets for Boom! Studios, and occasionally draws
Fin Fan Four for Marvel). I know Corn.

I wish I had made more of an effort when I was young to get a letter published. It would be a fun, timeless thing to look back at that issue now. At the time, I wasn't thinking about 30 years into the future.

I remember one very serious letter where I was asking for a No-Prize. I went into an elaborate argument why I should get one (whatever issue I had discovered), and also asked at length about what a No-Prize was.

By the time I was a world-weary 11 year-old, I couldn't believe I had once thought a No-Prize was a real prize.

I never thought they were real but I remember thinking that having one - and therefore being able to put the initials after one's name - WAS important. I was a FFF (I think - bought more than three comics a week anyway) and a KOF because I introduced my best mate to comics. But never even a QNS, never mind a whatever the hell it was for a no-prize winner...

There used to be a real "No-Prize"—an empty letter sent claiming that your prize was inside.

Years later--as a guy who saw the mail--I was pretty dismayed by how many of the letters were from guys just asking for No-Prizes.

When Todd McFarlane did the new Spider-Man titles one of the things he made a conscious effort not to do was run letters asking for No-Prizes. It cut down on the number of request letters considerably.

How did they explain it?

They actually kind of skirted the issue - I wrote, "Why couldn't we see Airwave's costume under his short sleeve shirt?" and they said something to the effect of, "Why would you want to be able to see his costume under his clothes? Harold Jordan (Airwave) has a secret identity to protect!"

Hmmm. I think you got them fair and square and they got weasely. For shame.

hmmm

I'm trying to remember, but I wrote very few letters as a kid. I remembe writing one about the Stern and Byrne CAPTAIN AMERICA run... the Cap for President issue. But I didn't get printed. I sent a drawing in to GREEN LANTERN of an original alien GL design and got mentioned in The letter column. Wrote a way overlong critical piece to some political blathering on Peter David's BUT I DIGRESS column right after I got out of college and we were headed into the '88 election. Peter ran the entire letter as his next column and addressed each point. That was quite cool btw.

the most embarrassing letter was one I wrote to SUPREME in '97 with no intention of being published, just to inquire if there was any subscription possibilities because I was moving and dropping all comics but wanted to keep getting this one only. Liefeld, the bastard, ran the letter! Lol

I wrote some letters to Man-Thing and New Teen Titans (with my theory of the new member of the team - I thought it would be Fran). Neither saw print

Fran?

My letters to DC were usually in protest of comics being canceled.

Cardy's Titans being canceled made me pull out the typewriter.

I just got a production art postcard for my efforts.