{"id":110,"date":"2004-11-10T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/11\/10\/what-if-11-the-fantastic-four-were-the-original-marvel-bullpen\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T15:08:51","slug":"what-if-11-the-fantastic-four-were-the-original-marvel-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/110","title":{"rendered":"What If #11 [1978]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sillier concepts of all time, this features Kirby and others from Marvel in the 1960s transformed into the Fantastic Four, with the on-the-nose title of &#8220;What If&#8230; The Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?&#8221;. Kirby is cast as The Thing, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/What-If-11-1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3279\" alt=\"What If #11 [1978]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/What-If-11-1978-675x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/What-If-11-1978-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/What-If-11-1978-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/What-If-11-1978-624x946.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/11\/What-If-11-1978.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all delightfully goofy, with a few gentle shots taken at the man playing Mr. Fantastic. And it was good to see Kirby getting one last pseudo-shot at writing and drawing a Fantastic Four story.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Sinnott inked the cover, while Mike Royer and Bill Wray inked the 34 interior pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sillier concepts of all time, this features Kirby and others from Marvel in the 1960s transformed into the Fantastic Four, with the on-the-nose title of &#8220;What If&#8230; The Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?&#8221;. Kirby is cast as The Thing, of course. It&#8217;s all delightfully goofy, with a few gentle shots [&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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","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=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}