{"id":23,"date":"2004-09-15T19:30:01","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/09\/15\/black-goliath-4-cover\/"},"modified":"2004-09-15T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2004-09-15T19:30:01","slug":"black-goliath-4-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/23","title":{"rendered":"Black Goliath #4 [1976] &#8211; Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time just to keep up the posting frequency I&#8217;ll throw in one of the many books Kirby just did covers for (about 100 at Marvel in the 1970s and maybe twice that in the 1960s, so there&#8217;s a lot to choose from).  Minimal comments on those, since you can see the Kirby content and the stories they&#8217;re wrapped around often aren&#8217;t worth re-reading, and aren&#8217;t on-topic here anyway.  The 70s covers aren&#8217;t always Kirby&#8217;s strongest art, since he was often clearly working over layouts from New York (and sometimes slightly re-drawn back in New York), but they&#8217;re fun, often have the only example of Kirby drawing a particular character, and have some nice inkers (a lot are Sinnott or Giacoia, both great, but there are a few unusual ones).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image989\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/12\/BlackGoliath4_23.jpg\" alt=\"BlackGoliath4_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one, inked by Joe Sinnott, is kind of fun just because Stilt-Man gives me a bit of a chuckle.  As does Black Goliath.  I guess this would be the only time Kirby had the dubious honour of drawing either of that pair of winners.  And check out that trademark Kirby squiggle on Stilt-Man&#8217;s leg.  That&#8217;s one of the longest of those you&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Published August 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time just to keep up the posting frequency I&#8217;ll throw in one of the many books Kirby just did covers for (about 100 at Marvel in the 1970s and maybe twice that in the 1960s, so there&#8217;s a lot to choose from). Minimal comments on those, since you can see the Kirby [&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-23","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\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}