{"id":32,"date":"2004-09-18T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/09\/18\/weird-mystery-tales-2-toxl-the-world-killer\/"},"modified":"2004-09-18T21:39:24","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T21:39:24","slug":"weird-mystery-tales-2-toxl-the-world-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/32","title":{"rendered":"Weird Mystery Tales #2 [1972] &#8211; Toxl the World-Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 12 page story is one of four that were intended for SPIRIT WORLD #2 and then published in various DC horror anthology books. This story is inked by Mike Royer, and, though he&#8217;s uncredited, written with Mark Evanier (see the article linked to below for details).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toxl&#8221; is visually the best of those, with some great images, including one of the best two-page spreads I think Kirby ever did. Lot&#8217;s of amazing action in here, with the story of Toxl, the leader of a primitive tribe leading a rebellion against a group of technologically advanced\u00a0conquerors. A little bit of a strange story, but lots of fun to read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/wmt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2484\" alt=\"wmt2\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/wmt2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/wmt2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/wmt2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/wmt2-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/wmt2-624x928.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR article on SPIRIT WORLD, including a\u00a0penciled\u00a0page from this story and comments by Mark Evanier is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twomorrows.com\/kirby\/articles\/13spiritworld.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This issue also includes a two page article by Kirby on the topic of UFOs, &#8220;They&#8217;re Still Up There&#8221;, illustrated with four Kirby collages. Fun enough, although I always thought that Kirby&#8217;s collages looked to be too much work for stuff he could more effectively do with a pencil, and were never done enough justice by the mediocre printing of the era.<\/p>\n<p>Published October 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 12 page story is one of four that were intended for SPIRIT WORLD #2 and then published in various DC horror anthology books. This story is inked by Mike Royer, and, though he&#8217;s uncredited, written with Mark Evanier (see the article linked to below for details). &#8220;Toxl&#8221; is visually the best of those, with [&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-32","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\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}