{"id":276,"date":"2005-02-26T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/02\/26\/black-panther-8-panthers-or-pussycats\/"},"modified":"2005-02-26T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T17:39:00","slug":"black-panther-8-panthers-or-pussycats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/276","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther #8 [1978] &#8211; Panthers or Pussycats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story opens up with a flashback to a combat ritual some years ago in Wakanda, where the ruling Panther took on various challengers in hand-to-hand combat.  A brilliant two-page spread highlights that battle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Black-Panther-8-1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1852\" title=\"Black Panther #8 [1978]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Black-Panther-8-1978.jpg\" alt=\"Black Panther #8 [1978]\" width=\"543\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Black-Panther-8-1978.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Black-Panther-8-1978-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/02\/Black-Panther-8-1978-624x454.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the flashback, we get two storylines.  T&#8217;Challa is flying back to Wakanda when he rescues two men who turn out to be gangsters.  They cause his helicopter to crash and T&#8217;Challa finds himself stranded in North Africa with the surviving gangster, Scarpa.  Meanwhile, in Wakanda, the regent N&#8217;Gassi gathers together some other members of the royal family to battle Jakarra, now mutating to monstrous form by exposure to Vibranium.  They&#8217;re all uncertain of their ability to help, but rise to the challenge when Jakarra attacks, and resolve to defeat him.<\/p>\n<p>An entertaining start to the &#8220;Black Musketeers&#8221; storyline in the title.  I especially like the background scenes given for T&#8217;Challa&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story opens up with a flashback to a combat ritual some years ago in Wakanda, where the ruling Panther took on various challengers in hand-to-hand combat. A brilliant two-page spread highlights that battle. Following the flashback, we get two storylines. T&#8217;Challa is flying back to Wakanda when he rescues two men who turn out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","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\/276","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=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}