{"id":188,"date":"2004-12-28T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/28\/lesser-villains-of-the-early-1960s\/"},"modified":"2004-12-28T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T17:41:08","slug":"lesser-villains-of-the-early-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/188","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Villains of the early 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of Kirby-on-the-outside books from the early Marvel Universe, showing not everyone was a Doctor Doom, Magneto or Modok.<\/p>\n<p>STRANGE TALES #112, 1963.  Inker unknown, possibly Ayers?  Nicely drawn figure, but the Eel has one of the dullest costumes ever.  Which I guess is fine for his profession, but doesn&#8217;t make for splashy comics.<\/p>\n<p>TALES OF SUSPENSE #45, 1963.  Don Heck inks.  I dunno, I just find it amusing that Happy and Pepper got such a big build-up on their first appearance.  Well, they probably did deserve it more than Jack Frost.<\/p>\n<p>TALES TO ASTONISH #47, 1963.  Dick Ayers inks.  Ah, menaced by a giant piano playing hand.  Is it any wonder that they added growing powers just a few issues later?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/dsf32a.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/fee745.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/dfdf63.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.photobucket.com\/bucket.gif\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of Kirby-on-the-outside books from the early Marvel Universe, showing not everyone was a Doctor Doom, Magneto or Modok. STRANGE TALES #112, 1963. Inker unknown, possibly Ayers? Nicely drawn figure, but the Eel has one of the dullest costumes ever. Which I guess is fine for his profession, but doesn&#8217;t make for splashy comics. [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}