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Met a guy at the Dallas con who completely changed how I read old comics
I was at the Dallas Comic Con back in 2018 flipping through some dollar bins when this older dude next to me just started talking. He pointed at a beaten up X-Men #94 and said "you're not reading the story if you skip the letters page." He told me how he'd been collecting since 1972 and that those back pages were where the real fan culture lived. Been checking every letters page since then and honestly he was right, there's some wild history in there. Anyone else dig through the old letters sections or just me?
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shah.shane3mo ago
nah hard disagree honestly. letters pages are just filler content that companies used to stroke their own egos. half the letters in those old books were clearly fake or planted by the editorial team to hype up upcoming storylines. i remember reading a 70s FF letters page where like three different people wrote in to praise the exact same subplot. dead giveaway. plus the actual fan letters were usually just people complaining about costumes or asking dumb plot questions that get answered in the next issue anyway. i'd rather spend that time actually analyzing the art or looking for easter eggs in the panels.
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