# Episode 34: My Most Memorable Captain Marvel Hate Mail

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Podcast: [Why Not Say What Happened?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/why-not-say-what-happened-7069512)
Published: 2026-07-15T18:54:00+00:00
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## Resource

While shredding nearly 10,000 pages of my accumulated papers, I made several discoveries worth sharing, including memorable hate mail I received while writing Captain Marvel , multiple reasons I'm unqualified to write my own autobiography, a job application at Comico, why I refused to meet editors until after I'd already sold them stories, my unsuccessful score on a DC Comics proofreading test, four rejected Tales from the Darkside pitches which didn't end up published in Elvira's House of Mystery , and more.

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