#Paty Cockrum

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GH: WHAT IF #38

For the first couple of years of its existence, WHAT IF was a really good comic book. Creators seemed to come up with premises that allowed them to tell stories that took familiar characters in wild new directions, and the outcomes of those stories were all over the map. So it was a fascinating series to me and my small circle of comic book reading friends. That plus the fact that it was so new…

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A Marvel Masterwork Pin-Up from Two-Gun Kid No. 136, dated April 1977. Art by Paty Cockrum (widow of Dave Cockrum).

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The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe #01 (1983)

Art by Paty Cockrum And Joe Rubinstein

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'Paty Cockrum (wife of Dave) an accomplished belly dancer who put together Marvel advertising and merchandise artwork.'

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The Futurians #3 (April, 1986). Pencils/inks by Dave Cockrum. Colors by Patty Cockrum.

The third - and last released - issue of Dave Cockrum's follow-up series to The Futurians (1983), the ninth of a series of original graphic novels published by Marvel in the early 1980s.

Cockrum had completed a fourth issue in this series, but the publisher went belly-up before it saw the light of day. The fourth issue was included in a second graphic novel that reprinted the other three issues as well.

The Futurians graphic novel sold very well, as was reprinted twice. Marvel wanted to launch a comic book series but Cockrum, like so many of his colleagues at that time, heard the siren call of the indie publishers and decided to make his own way. Cockrum, as you can imagine, ended up regretting that he didn't take Marvel up on its offer. That was a regret shared by fans of the series.

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FUTURIANS #0 1995, Aardwolf Press Dave Cockrum story and pencils, Ricardo Villagran and Dave Cockrum inks, Paty Cockrum colors, Bruzenak and Moodos letters

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::ooc:: tfw you know your muse so well you predicted what will happen in the first Way of X book ^^ 

So far so good but I reserve my final thoughts by the end of the series. The first book was a pleasant surprise. 

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What.......

The fuck did I just read?

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Nightcrawler vol 1 3 (1986) . To Bamf, Or Not To Bamf! . Written and Art by Dave Cockrum Colors by Paty Cockrum Lettered by Jim Novak Edited by Ann Nocenti . The Fantastic story gets even crazier in this third issue, as Nightcrawler joins forces with fairytale Colossus, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine to fight the Dark Bamf and Shagreen!! . #nightcrawler #xmen #excalibur #80s #wolverine #fairytale #davecockrum #darkbamf #bamf #colossus #kittypryde #shagreen #lockheed https://www.instagram.com/p/CeW_ib6Ma67/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Marvel Holiday Special - "A Miracle a Few Blocks Down from 32nd Street" (1991)

written by Scott Lobdell art by Dave Cockrum, Joe Rubinstein, & Paty Cockrum 

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the cover to The Punisher: Bloodlines (1991) by Dave Cockrum and Paty Cockrum

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Omg, if you are ever inclined to type it out, I would love to read the story about Chuck Austen on the forum!

Of course… Under the cut cause this will be long *cracks knuckles*

Before telling the whole story, I must say I have nothing against the guy. He is actually a cool guy, I didn´t have the chance to meet him in person but some of my friends from the forum did and they had a great impression of him however I chatted with him often ( most of us did ) in the chat room we had for the message board and he was always positive and friendly. 

However, most of my reasons of being canon divergent is because of the damage control his run did but hey, he wasn´t alone doing what he did, Marvel and a whole team of people allowed that to happen. 

And I´m not blaming it to everyone, it was a corporate decision in the end and being a business man I can tell you, sometimes we take wrong decisions and odd turns to keep a business fresh and alive and in the late 90´s and early 2000´s a lot of things were going on and comics sales were dropping, more indie labels like Top Cow and Image were getting more readers, Dark Horse became bigger etc, so, hey.. It´s entertainment for us the readers but for them it´s business and everything translates into money. In the end, it´s like that. 

Anyway..  Now that I made my ´little disclaimer´ ( lol ), here is the story: 

Years ago ( more than one decade to be more precise) I used to be part of this message board that was relatively large and Nightcrawler-centered ( I won´t give names, only creator names ). Oh and I also must mention I mostly witnessed things and I made very good friends that are still important to me now a days, I also helped to kick out trolls as part of the staff. I did nothing but memorizing it lol cause it was good gossip in the end.

The maintainers invited several creators to join, some of them did: Chris Yost, Chuck Austen, Grant Morrison -but he was never there- and Dave Cockrum was the star of the forum, he even had his whole room, his wife Paty was also there. We used to chat with them often and they were so nice, I remember that whenever one of them logged in we were all giddy and eager to chat with them. 

This was before the boom of the social media, in fact this was even before my space so we didn´t have any other ways to get spoilers and tid bits and such. 

And when Chuck told us about the Draco cause it was a Nightcrawler-centric arc and it would explain a lot of his origins we were of course the most excited, he teased us often with art concepts and bits of things he had proposed, he told us about Azazel and his army… 

Theeeen… 

Eeeh.. 

When the first issue came out, we had divided opinions. I was on the fence of everything and trying to give the whole run a chance but a small group of people was tired that many of the message board users kept praising Chuck cause he was there but because the story wasn´t great, neither the art and it was somehow offensive and biased, they were scared we would start drama and run Chuck away. The maintainers had personal reasons to do so, very selfish personal reasons I won´t mention in public but they were getting in the way of people to have a neutral discourse cause they started to protect Chuck. 

I mean Chuck even named a minor supportive character as one of the maintainers because of idk *shrug* that was awkward and I have nothing to say about that but many were rolling their eyes at that. 

Then the whole thing with the CAH and the Priesthood run came and things blew up, in fact many of us ended leaving -me included, I left a couple of years later- because of the obvious glorification they had for Chuck. It didn´t work for them in the end, I mean, Chuck is only a creator, he has no power or decisions of what to do in the comics world. Maybe connections but, hey that´s it. 

And many of us didn´t like Azazel anyway, didn´t like what it did to Kurt´s character and I have friends that haven´t read X-Men comics again because of that. Azazel has potential, A LOT. He is the most powerful teleporter that has ever existed but the way he was developed made no sense and he sounded better than the way he was written anyway. 

We also got Stacy-X and eh, whoever knows about her can tell you how bad her development was, her whole purpose was offensive. Obviously, MANY of us didn´t like that. 

That´s basically it, or well.. What I can remember, I have a great memory but my Fibro plays tricks on me often, if I get to remember something else, I´ll edit and tag you :) 

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WHAT IF? CLASSIC: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL. 4 TPB

Written by JOHN BYRNE, BILL MANTLO, TOM DEFALCO, ALAN WEISS, DAVID ANTHONY KRAFT, DAVID MICHELINIE, RICH MARGOPOULOS, ALAN KUPPERBERG, ALAN ZELENETZ, PETER B. GILLIS & MARK GRUENWALD Penciled by JOHN BYRNE, MIKE VOSBURG, ARVELL JONES, ALAN WEISS, PATY COCKRUM, DAN REED, ALAN KUPPERBERG, RON WILSON, BUTCH GUICE, MARC SILVESTRI, RON FRENZ, BOB HALL, MARK GRUENWALD, SAL BUSCEMA & KELLEY JONES COVER BY MICHAEL GOLDEN More alternate-reality questions are answered! Imagine a world where the Fantastic Four never gained their powers — or one where Stephen Strange never became Master of the Mystic Arts! Consider the fates of the Thing and the Beast if they continued to mutate — or Spider-Man if Uncle Ben had lived! Picture Conan the Barbarian meeting Thor — or finding himself stranded in the 20th century for good! The Hulk goes berserk, Susan Richards dies in childbirth, Nova makes a life-changing decision and Galactus turns the Silver Surfer back into Norrin Radd! But what if Loki had found Mjolnir before his brother — and what if the Marvel Universe ceased to exist?! Plus: Thought-provoking tales featuring Daredevil, the Sub-Mariner, the Avengers and more! Collecting WHAT IF? (1977) #36-47. 488 PGS./Rated T …$39.99 ISBN: 978-1-302-92286-3

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clifford meth, dave and paty cockrum, probably late 90s/early aughts

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I remember when I was first getting into online fandom back in high school, I had the good pleasure to meet a lot of wonderful adult fans (and content creators) through fanfiction.net (before it got shitty) who were so encouraging to young writers. Marvel Comics’ Paty Cockrum was one of those people. I don’t remember if she wrote fic, but she was definitely active in circles where it would appear, talking to fans who were popular writers of the time, or just fans like me. Even though I was just a kid and I hadn’t really worked out prose writing too well yet (or character development for that matter), she read my stories and gave me great feedback and encouraged me, and when I sent questions about my favorite characters (Magneto, especially) she’d always have answers. She even showed me some of her new artwork. I felt so blessed, and even when I abandoned the ideas I had back then and learned to hone my craft more, I only had the confidence to continue writing and post because people like her made me feel like I could do it really early on. 

Most creators of fan content are older than you think they are. I guess because of that positive experience, I get a little surprised when people act like someone being in their 30s and part of a fandom is strange, because that was pretty much it, back when I was a teen. Sure there were some people your age running around, but the big names? The ones you aspired to be like? They were always way older. Pretty sure most of the time, they still are. 

Most of the content you consume is coming from people in their 30s or older. Why is it okay for them to make it, but not enjoy it or talk about it?

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FUTURIANS #0 1995, Aardwolf Press Dave Cockrum story and pencils, Ricardo Villagran and Dave Cockrum inks, Paty Cockrum colors, Bruzenak and Moodos letters