{"id":2509,"date":"2011-04-21T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:48:28","slug":"friends-of-old-geek-cred-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/04\/21\/friends-of-old-geek-cred-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Of Old Geek Cred"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As I de-clutter, I uncover an alarming number of membership cards for various defunct fan clubs. The one below is for FOOM<\/strong> also known as Friends Of Old Marvel. <\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Membership in FOOM came with a magazine that came out once in a blue moon which I cherished. The initial membership kit came with some glue-backed paper stickers, the membership card and a poster by Jim Steranko<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Notice something? No Wolverine! This was before The X-Men’s relaunch, and the only mutant represented is Angel.<\/p>\n

I always thought the poster was kind of lame. It seems that Steranko spent most of his time rendering The Black Widow and rushing the rest.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It didn’t matter. I cherished it all, and practically camped out by the mailbox until the next issue of FOOM<\/strong> came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[120],"tags":[233,9,322,308,323],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curious-clutter","tag-1970s","tag-comics","tag-foom","tag-marvel","tag-steranko"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-Et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5479,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/05\/f-o-o-m-friends-marvel\/","url_meta":{"origin":2509,"position":0},"title":"F.O.O.M. 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