{"id":631,"date":"2010-10-23T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/?p=631"},"modified":"2010-10-23T19:29:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:29:24","slug":"the-kirby-that-jack-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/2010\/10\/23\/the-kirby-that-jack-built\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kirby That Jack Built!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just for kicks, as I was digging out my old Kirby Collectors<\/em> and looking through my “Kirby’s X-Files” article (in TJKC<\/em> #17), I note the entry for the cool-sounding text piece, “The Kirby That Jack Built!” and I find my beat-up copy of Super DC Giant<\/em> #S-25 (cover-dated July-Aug. 1971) to reacquaint myself. While I’m disappointed it’s merely a reprinting (without the N.Y. editorial preface) of “Jack Kirby — Continued,” the autobio text piece in JO<\/em> #133, I notice the issue, devoted to some of the best Wallace Wood-inked Kirby stories from “Challengers of the Unknown” (credited herein as Kirby-written stories; I thought the Wood brothers wrote \u2019em… I’ll check the index), it is<\/em> a veritable Kirby promotional piece, featuring not only some his most lavish \u201950s DC work, but a trio of house ads devoted to Kirby Komics. I thought I’d scan the pertinent stuff, including the little-seen Kirby cover for that ish (newly penciled by the King and inked by Colletta) and the text piece (ganged up from the three separate page appearances)…<\/p>\n

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Just for kicks, as I was digging out my old Kirby Collectors and looking through my “Kirby’s X-Files” article (in TJKC #17), I note the entry for the cool-sounding text piece, “The Kirby That Jack Built!” and I find my beat-up copy of Super DC Giant #S-25 (cover-dated July-Aug. 1971) to reacquaint myself. While I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3urou-ab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}