{"id":229,"date":"2005-01-21T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/01\/21\/buried-treasure-v22-lockjaw-the-alligator\/"},"modified":"2005-01-21T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T17:03:07","slug":"buried-treasure-v22-lockjaw-the-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/229","title":{"rendered":"Buried Treasure #2 [1990] &#8211; Lockjaw the Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This issue of the Greg Theakston edited comic contains a reprint of the S&amp;K story from PUNCH &amp; JUDY COMICS V2#10 (1947), introducing Lockjaw the Alligator.  It&#8217;s a fun 7-page story, with a action packed splash of the most common sight gag in the series, Lockjaw swinging the diminutive Professor like a club.  The story features the Professor looking for a rare alligator in the Everglades, and finding a talking alligator, Lockjaw, who learned to talk because all the animals in comics do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1829\" title=\"bt2\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/01\/bt2.jpg\" alt=\"bt2\" width=\"575\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/01\/bt2.jpg 575w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/01\/bt2-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a fun, kind of surreal, stream-of-consciousness type story, with scenes like the Professor trying to get Lockjaw booked in Punch&amp;Judy comics (with cameos from some of the other characters and the editor) and Lockjaw using the Professor as a water stopper.<\/p>\n<p>This story was also reprinted in the third COMPLETE JACK KIRBY volume.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue of the Greg Theakston edited comic contains a reprint of the S&amp;K story from PUNCH &amp; JUDY COMICS V2#10 (1947), introducing Lockjaw the Alligator. It&#8217;s a fun 7-page story, with a action packed splash of the most common sight gag in the series, Lockjaw swinging the diminutive Professor like a club. The story [&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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}