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Ron Hodgen

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    The Merry Marvel Marching Society (MMMS)

    in Silver Age Comic Books

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    On 8/15/2019 at 5:56 PM, ivrimark said:

    So I’m that obsessive-compulsive fan who has indeed compiled a list of all the published Merry Marvel Marching Society (MMMS) members – 11,060 names in 493 comics!  It wasn’t feasible until the issues I lack, mostly western and war titles, have been recently archived online – Bullpen Bulletin page and all.

    I do realize any owners of those names are now more than 60 years old -- if they’re still around, God bless ‘em  --  and a vast majority of them couldn’t care less about which comic may have featured their name in tiny, tiny type.  The scope of the task is dwarfed by the apathy.  Whatever.  It’s done.

    Caveat:  many members’ names didn’t get published when Marvel stopped listing them in 1968. Getting your $1.00 refunded at this point is unlikely.

    So now is where I’ll find out about the apathy.  If you’re interested, PM me your name and hometown (to be precise, the name and hometown you entered on your MMMS form in the 60’s) and we’ll see if I get a hit.  I don’t expect a deluge.

    (Thanks, Ameri, for starting this topic back in 2015!)