{"id":1120,"date":"2007-01-03T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1120"},"modified":"2007-01-03T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T01:00:01","slug":"black-panther-9-1978-black-musketeers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/1120","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther #9 [1978] &#8211; Black Musketeers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In T&#8217;Challa&#8217;s storyline this issue he continues on his way home, now stuck in Sudan carrying around an injured crime boss.  He finds himself on the set of a science fiction movie which is not unlike STAR WARS.  Okay, it&#8217;s a lot like STAR WARS.  Anyway, he&#8217;s eager to leave instead of being detained by questions from the police coming for the crime boss, so he causes some chaos on the film set in order to steal a jeep and continue on his way home.  Which seems a bit rude to me, given that they, you know, saved his life in the desert, but I guess that&#8217;s how royalty behaves.  He finds himself pursued by a plane, which he surrenders to with obvious plans to take it to finish his journey.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Wakanda&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1121\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2007\/01\/BlackPanther91978.jpg\" alt=\"BlackPanther91978.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jakarra is on the rampage, having been mutated by the vibranium.  Fortunately, the four members of the royal family called in as the &#8220;Black Musketeers&#8221; are able to subdue him, although not without their expenses upsetting T&#8217;Challa&#8217;s regent N&#8217;Gassi.  The young doctor among the Musketeers, Joshua Itobo, also refuses to take N&#8217;Gassi&#8217;s advice to kill Jakarra to end his threat, which proves to be a mistake when Jakarra further mutates and escapes and heads for the vibranium mound and sure doom for the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The Musketeers are a lot of fun, unfortunately not really developed that much in the few issues they had, but with a lot of potential.  And the set of the sci-fi film had some nice goofy Kirby designs with some playful ribbing of STAR WARS.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer inks the 17-page story, not sure who inks the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In T&#8217;Challa&#8217;s storyline this issue he continues on his way home, now stuck in Sudan carrying around an injured crime boss. He finds himself on the set of a science fiction movie which is not unlike STAR WARS. Okay, it&#8217;s a lot like STAR WARS. Anyway, he&#8217;s eager to leave instead of being detained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1120","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\/1120","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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}