Simon Parisier, the founder of CHI, giving her the miracle of hearing. “Jonathan reached out to the Children’s Hearing Institute because he knew someone whose daughter received a cochlear implant from Dr. “I was determined to make this comic happen, so I asked Marvel Custom Solutions VP Jonathan Rheingold if we could find a partner to underwrite a story that would feature Blue Ear and show how children who are hearing impaired are true heroes,” explains Rosemann.
Not only did it make Christina, Anthony, and his friends happy, it made people everywhere excited to read the adventures of Blue Ear-except Blue Ear did not yet have any adventures. Iron Man: Sound Effects art by Karl Moline
“Then, after I passed Christina’s e-mail around, Marvel’s Nelson Ribeiro and Manny Mederos were nice enough to create and draw the hero Blue Ear in two pin-ups, which I shared with Christina, and which made Anthony and his classmates very happy!” “ if Anthony wore his hearing aids-which he called Blue Ear, since they were made of blue plastic-we’d make him an honorary Avenger,” he continues. In response I sent Christina a cover image of WEST COAST AVENGERS #1, featuring Hawkeye as team leader, and told her that Clint Barton wore them back in the 80’s after he injured his ears.” “Her young son Anthony Smith didn’t want to wear his hearing aids because he didn’t see any of our characters wearing them. “Over two years ago, Christine D’Allesandro wrote an e-mail to Marvel asking for help,” recalls Marvel Custom Solutions Creative Director Bill Rosemann.
It all began simply enough with a loving mother and a son who wanted nothing more than to be a hero and thought his hearing aid meant he could not.
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