{"id":109,"date":"2004-11-09T21:59:55","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/11\/09\/journey-into-mystery-59-i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T21:59:55","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T21:59:55","slug":"journey-into-mystery-59-i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/109","title":{"rendered":"Journey Into Mystery #59 [1960] &#8211; I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ditko inked the cover over Jack Kirby for this issue, while Dick Ayers handled the inks for the lead story, &#8220;I Unleashed Shagg upon the World&#8221;. This is really one of the weaker Atlas monster stories, with a man finding a hidden lever next to the Sphinx, bringing it to life as the alien\u00a0conqueror\u00a0Shagg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Journey-Into-Mystery-59-1960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3010\" alt=\"Journey Into Mystery #59 [1960]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Journey-Into-Mystery-59-1960-698x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Journey-Into-Mystery-59-1960-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Journey-Into-Mystery-59-1960-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Journey-Into-Mystery-59-1960-624x914.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/Journey-Into-Mystery-59-1960.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shagg proceeds to rampage across Europe then onto America, before realizing that his fellow alien conquers aren&#8217;t around, and he was re-animated early. So he, um, just reverses everything with his cosmo-gamma electro-magnetic waves, which also makes everyone forget him, and returns to his Sphinx position.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, weak story, but the art is nice, especially the Kirby\/Ditko cover. And the rest of the book has some nice Ditko and Heck art.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1960<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ditko inked the cover over Jack Kirby for this issue, while Dick Ayers handled the inks for the lead story, &#8220;I Unleashed Shagg upon the World&#8221;. This is really one of the weaker Atlas monster stories, with a man finding a hidden lever next to the Sphinx, bringing it to life as the alien\u00a0conqueror\u00a0Shagg. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}