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| For those of you who don't know of him...he was the driving force behind the Super-hero Halloween Parade that took place in Rutland, Vermont...and was featured or mentioned in several comic stories by Denny O'Neill and/or Roy Thomas... So long, Tom Mark Evanier's mention in his blog...
http://www.newsfromme.com/ Tom's obit...
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081023/NEWS04/810230395
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I remember the Batman issue, #237(?), drawn by Neal Adams, and I think written by Harlan Ellison, which featured that parade. I also recall Berni Wrightson having something to do with that story as either a participant in the story or possibly the inker, but I was unaware of Tom Fagan and his role in the spectacle. Thanks for the info regarding him.
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Justice League of America #103 had a Rutland HAlloween story...I remember the Batman story you mention...and I recall there was a Roy Thomas Avengers or Thor that featured the Parade ...to name a few...
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| Hah!...Wikipedia has a lot of info... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland_Halloween_Parade In the 1970s, the Rutland Halloween Parade achieved a degree of fame when it was used as the setting of a number of superhero comic books, including Batman #237, DC Super-Stars #18, Justice League of America #103, Freedom Fighters #6, Amazing Adventures #16, Avengers # 83 and #119, Marvel Feature # 2, The Mighty Thor #207, and Doctor Spektor #18. Tom Fagan was himself featured as a character in a number of these stories, usually depicted as an acquaintance of the title characters. Due to the nature of the masquerade parade, these issues often saw people dressed as Marvel Comics heroes appearing in DC Comics publications, and vice versa, marking some of the first (unofficial) intercompany crossovers in comics. Caution was exercised, however over widespread use of the 'competition's characters - Tom Fagan, (who hosted the parade dressed as Batman), was typically drawn as Nighthawk in Marvel-published Rutland Halloween stories.[1] Over the Christmas-New Year period in 1972/73, Steve Englehart, Gerry Conway and Len Wein crafted a loose three-part story spanning titles from both companies. Each comic featured Englehart, Conway and Wein (and Wein's first wife Glynis) interacting with Tom Fagan and Marvel or DC villains (and heroes). Beginning in Amazing Adventures #16 (by Englehart with art by Bob Brown and Frank McLaughlin), the Beast hitches a ride from Englehart who is driving the Weins and Conway to Rutland. The story terminates after Juggernaut attempts to steal Englehart's car.[1] The action continues in Justice League of America #103 (by Wein, Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano), with Batman and other JLAers wind up leading the parade while attempting to capture Felix Faust. Faust ultimately steals Englehart's car, but is pulled over by the police.[1] In the third part of the unofficial crossover, Thor #207, (by Conway, John Buscema and Vince Colletta), the three comics creators (and one wife) again visit Fagan, during which visit Englehart's car is stolen by the unseen and unmentioned DC villain Felix Faust, as shown in JLA #103.[1] In 1986, the parade again appeared in Thunder Bunny #5. Most recently, the parade was featured in Marvel Comic's Generation X #22 and Superboy and the Ravers #16 from DC Comics.
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Here's another interesting link/list... http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/rutlandvt.htm
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| Englehart just couldn't get a break, could he... See, now those were guys who knew how to have fun w/comics...and a man who took something that he loved and turned it into something others could enjoy.. Fagan will truely be missed...
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