{"id":30,"date":"2005-04-19T03:37:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-04-19T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T10:37:26","slug":"alter-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Feed Your Inner Fanboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday got away from me, so the post about *Hard Time: Season 2* will have to wait a day or so while I catch up on work.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, allow me to plug a project with which I have no association at all, except as a reader.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of Golden or Silver Age comics, you really ought to be reading *Alter Ego*, Roy Thomas&#8217; monthly magazine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twomorrows.com\">TwoMorrows Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevegerber.com\/images\/alter_ego_45.jpg\" alt=\"Alter Ego No. 45\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Every issue is full of gems about the history of comics &#8212; interviews with artists and writers whose careers date back to the 1940s; surveys of comics characters, magazines, and publishers; even articles about the history of comics *fandom*, which has been in existence now for more than four decades. I know that for a fact, since  I was one of the people who received a copy of the first, ditto-reproduced issue of *Alter-Ego* in the mail in 1961. I was 14 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday got away from me, so the post about *Hard Time: Season 2* will have to wait a day or so while I catch up on work. Meantime, allow me to plug a project with which I have no association at all, except as a reader. If you&#8217;re a fan of Golden or Silver Age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}