{"id":148,"date":"2004-12-08T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/08\/wanted-9-the-adventure-of-the-magic-forest\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T20:56:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T20:56:19","slug":"wanted-9-the-adventure-of-the-magic-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/148","title":{"rendered":"Wanted &#8211; The World&#8217;s Most Dangerous Villains #9 [1973]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WANTED. THE WORLD&#8217;S MOST DANGEROUS VILLAINS was a short-lived reprint anthology from DC with a focus on super-villains. This was the final issue, and featured a reprint of the S&amp;K Sandman story from WORLD&#8217;S FINEST #6 (1942).<\/p>\n<p>The villain in this case is the Nightshade, a demonic looking green criminal who has used a variety of technological and biological terrors to take control of his &#8220;magic forest&#8221; where, for a price, he&#8217;ll offer other criminals a place to hide until the heat dies down. Sandman and Sandy get involved when the parents of a boy whose party Sandy is attending go missing in the forest, and battle Nightshade&#8217;s deadly plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/wanted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2868\" alt=\"wanted\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/wanted-702x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/wanted-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/wanted-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/wanted-624x909.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/wanted.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fun story, but the bit that cracks me up is the last page, when Sandy and Wes Dodds return to the party, where birthday boy Toby says &#8220;Hi&#8217;ya <b>Sandy<\/b>! Did ya hear what happened? The Sandman and <b>Sandy<\/b> saved my mom and dad!&#8221;. Yeah, you know Sandy, right Sandy? That crimefighter sidekick, about your height, curly blonde hair, kind of like yours&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Published 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WANTED. THE WORLD&#8217;S MOST DANGEROUS VILLAINS was a short-lived reprint anthology from DC with a focus on super-villains. This was the final issue, and featured a reprint of the S&amp;K Sandman story from WORLD&#8217;S FINEST #6 (1942). The villain in this case is the Nightshade, a demonic looking green criminal who has used a variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","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\/148","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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}