Comments on: Snark Free Corner for 1/8

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:40:20 +0000

Phil was a photographer. He did some feature writing as well, but I don’t think you could call him a reporter.

By: Mr.Chris

Mr.Chris — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:08:55 +0000

What about Phil sheldon from Marvels. Wasn’t he a reporter?

By: Niels van Eekelen

Niels van Eekelen — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:36:01 +0000

Don’t forget Neal Conan and Manoli Wetherell, who first appeared covering the death of the X-Men during Fall of the Mutants.

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:08:45 +0000

Ned Leeds was revealed to not be the Hobgoblin after all (due to a very long, complicated story involving Roger Stern leaving ASM, then coming back to the book to reveal who he intended the Hobgoblin to be all along…).

Off-topic, a potential future Snark Free column (maybe?). I can remember “Clark Kent” making guest appearances in at least two Spider-Man comics. One was the Marvel Team-Up with Spider-Man and Red Sonja (written by Chris Claremont and penciled by John Byrne, incidentally). The other was an issue of Web of Spider-Man, where the New Warriors (guest-appearing) save a newly-wed couple who were visting New York City for their honeymoon (guess who?).

If you want a detailed list of current and former Bugle employees, Wikipedia has one (of course).

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:21:34 +0000

Sorry – Jonah Jameson did occur to me, but I wasn’t aware that he did any reporting any more. I didn’t know Eddie Brock was a reporter and I’v never heard of Frederick Foswell

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:14:57 +0000

Yeah, Ben Urich is okay. Even though he smokes, like, twelve packs a day, he was still able to figure out that Peter Parker is Spider-Man through his sense of SMELL. I haven’t been reading Frontline, so I don’t know how he’s faring there, but he was always a pretty stand-up guy in Daredevil.

I’m surprised nobody mentioned Ned Leeds from Spider-Man. Wasn’t he one of the identities for Hobgoblin? How many other Marvel reporters can claim that?

By: Chud

Chud — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:20:18 +0000

Wait a second…

Spider-Man, one of THE characters in the Marvel Universe works at a newspaper for basically his entire existence, and we can’t do better then “Iâ€™d say Ben Urich, but then he is the only reporter in the Marvel Universe I could name.”?

First of all, J. Jonah Jamieson was, and occasionally is, a reporter. And he is patently awesome.

Second of all, Eddie mom lovin’ Brock.

Frederick Foswell.

There was another one (whose name escapes me) who was killed by Bastion in the warm-up to Operation:Zero Tolerance.

The list goes on and on.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:31:35 +0000

Best reporter in the Marvel U?

Clark Kent or Lois Lane. They’ve appeared occasionally, dammit! Thor bumped into Clark during the Simonson run. And I forget where Lois showed up, but she did. Not just in a crossover. Mwahahaha.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:07:02 +0000

“Itâ€™s neat to see Jesus America ascending into the heavens as his worshipers bid him farewell.”

That is one funny sentence. Kudos.

By: Matt Brady

Matt Brady — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:48:20 +0000

Hmmm, reporters in the Marvel Universe…There’s Trish Tilby, although she’s a reporter like Katie Couric is a reporter; Kat Farrell, but she’s kind of Urich’s protege; that girl from Civil War Frontline, whatever her name is; the Lois Lane stand-in who got killed in The Pulse; and Ben Urich. Oh, and wasn’t there a guy named Ken Ellis who tried to prove Peter Parker was Spider-Man? And there are various photographers, but that’s a different category. Yeah, I think we gotta go with Ben Urich.

By: Jeff Albertson

Jeff Albertson — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:39:24 +0000

Terry Austin, and it was actually clue 1 that made me think of him. I’m not entirely sure why, other than that I was recently wishing he was writing again. The later clues just cemented my answer.

In addition to Cloak and Dagger and a couple of issues of Power Pack, I think he wrote the X-Men Annual that was part of the Atlantis Attacks storyline. He was good.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:19:35 +0000

I think they later turned the columnist who wrote that piece, James (I think it was Jacob Conover) into a VILLAIN!

How lame is THAT?

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:27:59 +0000

Whichever reporter wrote the “Kid Who Collected Spider-Man” column for the Daily Bugle. (Jacob Conover, I think?)
Just because I love that Roger Stern/Ron Frenz story (but not enough to remember who wrote the Bugle column that framed it, apparently).

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:50:12 +0000

Ooops – I forgot about the writing bit which rules out Klaus Janson (I’m pretty sure it does anyway)

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:12:59 +0000

Oh, yeah. The Jimmy Olsen cover homages a cover to Thrilling Wonder Stories.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:37:45 +0000

Terry Austin did indeed write; he worked on ‘Power Pack’ and ‘Cloak and Dagger’ during the late 80s/early 90s. (Just was looking at some of the stuff he wrote yesterday, in fact.) I don’t know if he is, indeed, the person under discussion, but he certainly qualifies under #2.

And yeah, it’d have to be Ben Urich, just because there aren’t many candidates.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:23:38 +0000

I’m going to go with Al Milgrom.

By: MJ

MJ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:37:09 +0000

Terry Austin. I thought of him immediately with clue #1, but wasn’t aware of him writing anything, so I was unsure after #2, but #3 and #5 convinced me I was initially correct.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:28:33 +0000

I’d say Ben Urich, but then he is the only reporter in the Marvel Universe I could name.

As for the snark free challenge, My guess was Dick Giordano until clue 4 so I’ll change it to Klaus Janson

By: Denn

Denn — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:34:55 +0000

Best Reporter, Urich. No question