{"id":255,"date":"2005-02-11T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/11\/dc-special-blue-ribbon-digest-5-unleash-the-one-who-waits\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:12:00","slug":"dc-special-blue-ribbon-digest-5-unleash-the-one-who-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/255","title":{"rendered":"DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5 [1980]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was leafing through my various old digests, I figured I&#8217;d post about the few other Kirby stories I have, stories I&#8217;ve subsequently got better copies of. Almost all the digest reprints of older work were modified to some degree, and they weren&#8217;t printed on the best of paper.<\/p>\n<p>This issue&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Secret Origins&#8221;, and reprinted THE DEMON #1 from 1972, which I previously posted about <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/214\">here<\/a>. As I mentioned then, I love the double page spread from this story, one of Kirby&#8217;s best, and it still looks nice at this size.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/demon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2915\" alt=\"demon\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/demon.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/demon.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/demon-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/demon-624x456.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was the way I originally read the story, and I read it several times. Man, is this stuff overdue for a nice reprinting.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1980<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was leafing through my various old digests, I figured I&#8217;d post about the few other Kirby stories I have, stories I&#8217;ve subsequently got better copies of. Almost all the digest reprints of older work were modified to some degree, and they weren&#8217;t printed on the best of paper. This issue&#8217;s theme was &#8220;Secret [&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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}