![]() ![]() ![]() If they were living closer to me, I would have also tricked them into painting my fence. ![]() The Thompsons had a fairly inclusive notion of what constituted a professional, but what interested me most about the book was.you guessed it.that the listings included birth dates.ĭoing my best Tom Sawyer impression, I suggested to Don and Maggie that they start running birthday information in every weekly issue of Comics Buyer’s Guide. Comics Buyer’s Guide editors Don and Maggie Thompson published Comic-Book Superstars, a hardcover book listing the names, contact information and resumes of comics professionals who’d filled out forms handed out at conventions. ![]() Also, no longer being on staff at DC or Marvel, my access to addresses was curtailed.įlash forward to 1993. I had to stop doing it because money was tight. I continued this practice for a time when I moved back to my home town of Cleveland. Of course, back then, you could buy a decent card for under a buck and mail it for thirteen cents. Several of them wrote me back saying it was the first time they had received birthday cards from a writer or, for that matter, anyone else working at Marvel. Shortly thereafter, I began sending birthday cards to those Marvels artists and such with whom I had worked. ![]()
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