{"id":292,"date":"2005-03-16T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/03\/16\/golden-age-of-marvel-1\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T12:33:00","slug":"golden-age-of-marvel-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/292","title":{"rendered":"Golden Age Of Marvel #1 [1997]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This anthology includes three Kirby stories. First up is the requisite Captain America story, this time the 13-page &#8220;An Ear For Music&#8221; from CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 (1941) (the table of contents mis-credits it as &#8220;Horror Plays the Scales&#8221;, another story from that issue. Also, this story is usually listed as &#8220;Captain America and the Red Skull&#8221;, but I think the title is &#8220;An Ear For Music&#8221;). In this story, the Red Skull returns, using Chopin&#8217;s funeral march as a calling card, planning to kill some military leaders. As this is going on, Steve and Bucky get recruited for a play with Betty Ross, and have to constantly get out of that when duty calls. A nice story, the design for the Red Skull is a highlight of the early Captain America stories. I also liked the Skull&#8217;s attempt to frame Cap in this issue, leaving a note reading &#8220;Captain America, I got away with General King&#8230; Too bad you were nabbed&#8230; If you&#8217;re shot for this I&#8217;ll avenge your death &#8212; The Red Skull&#8221;. Even worse, that works. The art for this story is by Kirby\/Shores.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the 7-page Vision story from MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #25 (1941). Unfortunately they used the 1968 reprint from MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #13 as a source, as you can see from the huge vertical gaps between panels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/vision.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2977\" alt=\"vision\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/vision-693x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/vision-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/vision-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/vision-624x921.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/03\/vision.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story features a disgraced professor using a book of black magic to call forth a massive storm. The Vision appears in the smoke from one lightning strike, rescues some people and then takes the battle to the mountain where the professor is controlling the storm. A light story, but very dynamic art, Kirby was very rapidly getting more bold and confident during this year at Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>The last story in the book is &#8220;The Microscopic Army&#8221;, a 5-pager from YELLOW CLAW #3 (1957). As usual for the short Claw stories, the plot is sparse but the art is brilliant, including a great splash page. In this story, the Claw uses a kidnapped scientist to create a shrinking device, sending in some of his soldiers as spies. FBI Agent Jimmy Woo is called in to a mysterious break-in and notices little tiny footprints, and uses a prototype of the device to shrink himself. A quick battle that includes a giant type-writer and Jimmy using a pen as a lance follows, and the Yellow Claw is forced to flee before his base can be found.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1997<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This anthology includes three Kirby stories. First up is the requisite Captain America story, this time the 13-page &#8220;An Ear For Music&#8221; from CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 (1941) (the table of contents mis-credits it as &#8220;Horror Plays the Scales&#8221;, another story from that issue. Also, this story is usually listed as &#8220;Captain America and the Red [&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":[25,5,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-genre","category-science-fiction","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}