Earlier today we discussed how
Roy Thomas built a whole issue of
Incredible Hulk around an essay by
Tom Wolfe, complete with cameo by the author.
Well, that wasn't Wolfe's
first appearance in a
Marvel comic. Wolfe wrote about Marvel and the head-trippy moments of
Doctor Strange in
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (hey, it was the
60s!!). Roy saw it and started a correspondence with Wolfe, which resulted in this cameo in
Doctor Strange #180 (1696):
That reference is to the title of Wolfe's first collection of non-fiction essay. The full title of the titular essay is "
There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!)
Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend
(Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)…" Like I said, the 60s!!
That was how we rolled!!
Anyway, that's how you got into a Marvel Comic back then...write something that caught Roy Thomas' pop culture eye!!
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