Favorite Letter Page Name

[Shellhead]

Remember when comics used to include a page or two of letters from fans? Some of those letter pages had very clever names. What was your favorite name for a letter page? And what name would you suggest for a modern comic that doesn't have a letter page?

[The Wayner]

My favorite, though it isn't very snappy, was always Sgt. Rock's "Take Ten". That image of Rock, battle-weary, smiling, and holding a fan letter, is burned into my brain.

[Slam_Bradley]

I always liked..."Let's Rap with Cap."

[Arrjay]

I thought 'Arachnotes' was good.

[Shellhead]

My favorite that I can still remember was "Printed Circuits", for Iron Man. But it seems like there were better ones than that.

[C.O. Jones]

I liked 'Bayou Rhythms' for Swamp Thing.

[Phoney Bone]

"Justice Log"

[Mike Kuypers]

My favorite that I can still remember was "Printed Circuits", for Iron Man. But it seems like there were better ones than that.

You mean, like, "Sock It to Shellhead"? :)

[Shellhead]

You mean, like, "Sock It to Shellhead"? :)

No, I wasn't a big fan of the corny, hype-laden Stan Lee titles for the letterpages. Besides "Sock it to Shellhead" and "Rap with Cap", there was also "Let's Level with Daredevil." Stan was so creative and yet he gave us such lazy letter page titles.

[telerites]

Don't know why but I liked Aquaman's "Aqua-mail". I wish I could remember more of them. That is the first thing I read when I am reading a classic comic. I like seeing who went on to become a comic professional.

I don't remember all of the DC sci-fi letters pages, I think one was "Messages from Beyond" but it seemed like those were pretty good.

[DDM]

"Sword Strokes" from the original Excalibur

"X-Mail" from Uncanny X-Men

"Justice Log" from the 1980's Justice League, Justice League International, Justice League America

"Titans Tower" from The New Teen Titans

[prince hal]

I liked JLA Mailroom, mostly for the illustration that accompanied it. Ditto the LSH letters page logo. Both showed the various members gathered 'round to read the fan mail as if it was the highlight of their week!

Also loved Smallville Mailsack, with a silhouetted Superboy hauling a gigantic mailbag behind him as he flew over the "Our Town" of comics, Smallville, USA.

I second "Take ten," which began not a s a readers' forum, but as an "Information Please" about all things military: the number of soldiers in a regiment, the specs of a BAR, the comparative firepower of a Sherman and a Panzer, etc.

WORLD'S FINEST ran a contest in the mid-60s to replace aname that escapes me and a reader came up with a true classic, "Cape and Cowl Comments."

[MDG]

I liked 'Bayou Rhythms' for Swamp Thing.
I prefered the original "Swamp Things." But I had a friend who wrote in to suggest either "Mail it to the Muckman" or "Send it to Swampy."

MDG

[Red Oak Kid]

Green Skin's Grab-bag

and


Send it to Subby

[dan bailey]

deadman's chest comes to mind, mainly because i'm about midway through the '85 7-issue baxter reprint series ... never cracked open a single example of the strip back when i was a kid in the '60s.

[Red Oak Kid]

What comic had "Dead Letter Office" for a letter's page title?

[Sir Tim Drake]

"What it is!" (Nexus)

[MWGallaher]

The lettercol titles could be really corny at times, but one sticks in my mind as elegant and appropriate:

RE: ACTION

[Sanagi]

Green Lantern at one point had "Oa, by the way..." It took me a while to get that one.

[noodleboy]

I just read the new Haunted Mansion comic last night and thought that their letter column was very well named:

Eeeeeee-mail

[Sir Tim Drake]

Linear B (Age of Bronze)

[MDG]

Green Lantern at one point had "Oa, by the way..." It took me a while to get that one.
Like when Hawkan had "'Pinions"

MDG

[InfoBroker]

Some random comments and then I gotta get back to work.

I liked the early Marvel Silver-Age titles like "'The Spider's Web". In 1967 Charlton use an offshoot of this with "The Beetle's Lair" in (you guessed it) Steve Ditko's version of the Blue Beetle.

For the times, substituting "Mails" for "Tales" in Suspense, Astonish and Strange Tales was clever. Be trite today though.

But my favorite was for the X-men. It was titled "Mutant Mail-box" and it had a small illo of a corner-mailbox with Angel's wings on it.

I acknowledge the corny nature of "Rap with Cap" and "Sock it to Shellhead" but I don't think they were lazy. Just an extension of Stan's campy style.


What comic had "Dead Letter Office" for a letter's page title? I'm tempted to go with the obvious here and guess Strange Adventures featuring Dead-man, but my trivial mindset is also thinking it might be one of DC's war books, or possibly the Inferior Five.

-jb the (hedging my bets) ib-

[dan bailey]

I'm tempted to go with the obvious here and guess Strange Adventures featuring Dead-man,

as indicated above, i'm assuming the strange adventures lettercol during deadman's run appeared under "deadman's chest" -- that's what it's called in the baxter reprints that came out in '85.

[The Wayner]

What comic had "Dead Letter Office" for a letter's page title?

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't that Weird War Tales?

[T GUy]

ROK asks What comic had "Dead Letter Office" for a letter's page title?

The issues of Star-Spangled War Stories featuring the Unknown Soldier.