{"id":201,"date":"2005-01-03T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/01\/03\/atlas-cover-gallery-world-of-fantasy-tales-to-astonish-strange-worlds\/"},"modified":"2005-01-03T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T19:00:55","slug":"atlas-cover-gallery-world-of-fantasy-tales-to-astonish-strange-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/201","title":{"rendered":"Atlas Cover Gallery [World of Fantasy, Tales to Astonish, Strange Worlds]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of Kirby&#8217;s covers to Atlas books from shortly after his return, all three inked by Christopher Rule according to the Kirby Checklist.<\/p>\n<p>TALES TO ASTONISH #3, 1959. Typical Kirby fleeing crowds, and good details on the buildings. <\/p>\n<p>STRANGE WORLDS #5, 1959. A nice break from the giant monster and alien themes that dominate these covers, this looks like a good horror\/sci-fi cover, reminds me a bit of the BLACK MAGIC stuff from earlier in the decade.  Very nice face on the foreground figure.<\/p>\n<p>WORLD OF FANTASY #15, 1958.  And here we get some nice Kirby machinery, though not as elaborate as he would soon get.  And the scan doesn&#8217;t really show it, but the aliens are neat, and there&#8217;s some good linework on the foreground scientist&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/f494.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jkfdkei3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jfji393.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of Kirby&#8217;s covers to Atlas books from shortly after his return, all three inked by Christopher Rule according to the Kirby Checklist. TALES TO ASTONISH #3, 1959. Typical Kirby fleeing crowds, and good details on the buildings. STRANGE WORLDS #5, 1959. A nice break from the giant monster and alien themes that dominate [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","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\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}