{"id":2223,"date":"2011-06-07T21:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T01:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2011-06-07T21:31:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T01:31:02","slug":"new-kirby-simon-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/2223","title":{"rendered":"New Kirby &#8211; Simon autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Joe Simon&#8217;s new autobiography is shipping to comic shops this week, and they went with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1845769309\/ref=nosim\/jackkirbywebl-20\">MY LIFE IN COMICS<\/a> title and the cover with Captain America punching Hitler and a photo of Simon.\u00a0 It should be available from other sources soon (odd, I got my copy of the Titan FIGHTING AMERICAN book long before it got to comic shops, but my copy of this from the same source hasn&#8217;t shipped yet).\u00a0 Looks like there&#8217;s also an e-book version for the Kindle available on Amazon, for those into such things.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, that FIGHTING AMERICAN book should be available just about everywhere you&#8217;d expect now.\u00a0 Marvel has also had a bunch of recent reprints, lots of Captain America and Thor as you&#8217;d expect.\u00a0 One book I didn&#8217;t mention before came out a few months ago with some Kirby, SHOWCASE PRESENTS THE WITCHING HOUR VOL. 1 reprints &#8220;The Face Behind The Mask&#8221; from WITCHING HOUR #18 [1971], originally from TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED #13 [1957].\u00a0 A bit trivial, true, since a colour hardcover reprint of all of those 1950s short DC stories by Kirby is coming out soon enough.\u00a0 As usual, all releases <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/new-kirby-announcement-page\">are listed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Joe Simon&#8217;s new autobiography is shipping to comic shops this week, and they went with the MY LIFE IN COMICS title and the cover with Captain America punching Hitler and a photo of Simon.\u00a0 It should be available from other sources soon (odd, I got my copy of the Titan FIGHTING AMERICAN book [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-kirby"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","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=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}