{"id":242,"date":"2005-01-29T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/01\/29\/3-publishers-3-covers-two-gun-secrets-love\/"},"modified":"2005-01-29T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2005-01-29T14:58:42","slug":"3-publishers-3-covers-two-gun-secrets-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/242","title":{"rendered":"3 Publishers, 3 Covers (Two-Gun, Secrets, Love)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of 1950s Kirby covers<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE YOU #7, 1955.  Published by Charlton, another of the remnants of Mainline&#8217;s collapse (I don&#8217;t think Kirby ever worked for Charlton directly, unless the humour stories in FROM HERE TO INSANITY and CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY were done for them.  I suspect even those might have done for a Mainline humour book which never launched).  This series took over the numbering from IN LOVE.  Very strong cover, hinting at an interesting story, but really, you two, do you <b>want<\/b> to get caught?<\/p>\n<p>HOUSE OF SECRETS #11, 1958.  This looks like it might have been intended as a Challengers of the Unknown cover or splash at some point, and for some reason used as a cover here instead.  Or perhaps not.  Anyway, it&#8217;s one of the few DC books of the era he just did the cover for, and I think is a Kirby inked cover.  Great image, I especially like the collapsing bridge.<\/p>\n<p>TWO-GUN KID #48, 1959.  Kirby&#8217;s first cover for the series, long before the re-design of the character.  Nice drawings, although the vignettes look keeps it from having the strong central image, and the design is a bit blurb-happy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jdk3967.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jdskk28.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/j39fk47.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of 1950s Kirby covers I LOVE YOU #7, 1955. Published by Charlton, another of the remnants of Mainline&#8217;s collapse (I don&#8217;t think Kirby ever worked for Charlton directly, unless the humour stories in FROM HERE TO INSANITY and CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY were done for them. I suspect even those might have done for [&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-242","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\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}