{"id":3438,"date":"2011-08-08T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2011-08-08T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:00:40","slug":"gigantor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/08\/08\/gigantor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3432\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?attachment_id=3432\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1988,3038\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;TETSUMIN 28&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TETSUMIN 28\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1-196x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1-670x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3432\" title=\"TETSUMIN 28\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1-670x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1-624x953.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/GIGANTOR-1.jpg 1988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcbasile.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Basile<\/a> fills us in on the story behind his latest <em>pi\u00e8ce\u00a0de\u00a0r\u00e9sistance&#8230;<\/em>\u201cAround the time Jack came back to Marvel they wanted to get it&#8217;s hands into animation and toy licensing, so they started up the <em>Micronauts, Godzilla<\/em> and <em>Shogun Warrior<\/em> titles. One such title, <strong>Gigantor<\/strong>, was to be done by Jack, but it didn&#8217;t pan out . Not one to throw away an idea, Jack used the concept as inspiration for Machine Man a few years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3442\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2011\/08\/08\/gigantor\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,614\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super-195x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3442\" title=\"16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super.jpg 400w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/16532-2956-18419-1-machine-man_super-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original cover art by Jack Kirby and Mike Royer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Basile fills us in on the story behind his latest pi\u00e8ce\u00a0de\u00a0r\u00e9sistance&#8230;\u201cAround the time Jack came back to Marvel they wanted to get it&#8217;s hands into animation and toy licensing, so they started up the Micronauts, Godzilla and Shogun Warrior titles. One such title, Gigantor, was to be done by Jack, but it didn&#8217;t pan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[171,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigantor","category-marc-basile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}