Evan Dorkin

Comic Book Ephemera Item Of The Day: My F.O.O.M. Membership Card

Added 2023-03-06 00:12:24 +0000 UTC

Nice handwriting, kid!

I only ended up getting three of the four issues from my subscription, because one issue never arrived in the mail. It may have been because my family moved. I think I missed the Howard the Duck issue --? I remember The Vision and Daredevil covers clearly. And the Kirby issue. But my memory can't always be trusted (few memories can be) because looking at copies of F.O.O.M decades later I was surprised to see that a lot of the Kirby artwork in that issue -- that I always remembered as being by the man himself -- was actually done by other artists. So, yeah. w

I loved F.O.O.M. but even then I wasn't a Steranko fan (because of his art, not because he was a garbage human) so I was disappointed that he drew the poster. I still put it on my wall but always complained about it in my head. That weird unhappy fan who still goes along with it thing that we too often do. It was Steranko (boo) but it was Marvel/F.O.O.M (yay).

The stickers were cool, though. All marvel clip art, Kirby, et al.

The poster was destroyed in one of my mom's room wrecking rampages, the magazines sold, the stickers sold, I kept the card and still have the little rotting thing in a plastic case along with this infamous Star Wars trading card...https://www.polygon.com/2015/10/9/9486945/threepios-boner-topps-trading-card-star-wars-c-3po

Fandom!