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And just a few issues later in response, in ACTION COMICS 399, April 1971 :

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Dear Editor:

What a reputation I seem to have. Hopefully, you'll grant me the last word on this silly debate over whether there are "Lettercol Monopolizers" (gasp!)
In response to Arlene Lo's recent poetic gem:

  • "Flattery gets you nowhere", says Dennis J. O'Neil,
    Mike Friedrich says he needs the fans to tell him how they feel.
    And even expatriates John Broome and Gardner Fox,
    Will tell you there's no need for you on me to place a pox.
    Even though it's sometimes true that lettercols are hatched
    When an editor reads a letter and he knows the name attached,
    That shouldn't make your future in the lettercols look bleak,
    All you have to do is write 5,000 words a week!

    So keep on plugging at it and in time you'll be renowned
    And very soon for the lettercols your missives will be bound!
    So thank you, Arlene, for presenting both the pros as well as con,
    Although I cannot say for sure what side it is you're on!
    And thank you, thank you, dear sweet girl for immortalizing me
    In the world's most hilarious and ingenious LoC,
    But before an Alvin Yellon type --or a hundred more like tthese--
    Takes pen in hand, enough's enough!
    Change the subject, someone PLEASE!


--Martin Pasko, Clifton, NJ