{"id":264,"date":"2005-02-16T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/16\/gallery-of-the-obscure-shield-wizard-ko-chan\/"},"modified":"2005-02-16T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T18:02:00","slug":"gallery-of-the-obscure-shield-wizard-ko-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/264","title":{"rendered":"Gallery of the Obscure (Shield-Wizard, KO, Chan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some covers to publishers Kirby didn&#8217;t do too much work for.<\/p>\n<p>SHIELD-WIZARD COMICS #7, 1942.  The Kirby checklist credits this to Kirby\/Novick, which seems plausible, but a bit surprising.  It would be the only Kirby work for MLJ in the era (after they became Archie he seems to have done a short story in 1947, then of course the late 1950s super-hero stuff).  It&#8217;s a very nice cover, very much in the spirit of the Captain America covers Kirby had done the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>KO COMICS #1, 1945.  Not sure what the story with this cover is.  The publisher is Geronoa (or possibly Gerona), and the cover has a &#8220;JCA&#8221; signature, but does appear to be partly by Kirby, certainly having some traits of his work of the era.  Not sure the name of the character, could be &#8220;The Duke of Darkness&#8221; or &#8220;The Menace&#8221;, which are listed in Overstreet as characters in here.  Any more info would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLIE CHAN #6, 1955.  Published by Charlton, presumably picking up some unused inventory material from the Prize series of 1948.  This is a great dynamic cover, my favourite of these three.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jdkkee.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/jdkw246.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v489\/kirbyblog\/kskess.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some covers to publishers Kirby didn&#8217;t do too much work for. SHIELD-WIZARD COMICS #7, 1942. The Kirby checklist credits this to Kirby\/Novick, which seems plausible, but a bit surprising. It would be the only Kirby work for MLJ in the era (after they became Archie he seems to have done a short story in 1947, [&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-264","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\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}