{"id":392,"date":"2005-07-04T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/07\/04\/speed-comics-23-cover\/"},"modified":"2005-07-04T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T22:35:00","slug":"speed-comics-23-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/392","title":{"rendered":"Speed Comics #23 [1942] &#8211; Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I talk about Jack Kirby artwork on WWII flag-draped super-heroes of military rank, you know I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Captain Freedom?<\/p>\n<p>Yep.  Kirby did a bunch of covers in 1942 for this Harvey Comics character who appeared in SPEED COMICS.  Don&#8217;t know too much about the character, he was apparently a newspaper publisher named Don Hudson who sometimes had a kid gang group the Young Defenders helping him.  The handful of covers Kirby did were certainly good (though there&#8217;s some disagreement over which are S&amp;K and which are Simon solo).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SpeedComics23_392.jpg\" id=\"image744\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/04\/SpeedComics23_392.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original art for this cover was up for auction a while ago.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagecomics.com\/common\/view_item.php?Sale_No=751&amp;Lot_No=3781&amp;src=pr\">Check out the scan here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1942<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I talk about Jack Kirby artwork on WWII flag-draped super-heroes of military rank, you know I&#8217;m talking about&#8230; Captain Freedom? Yep. Kirby did a bunch of covers in 1942 for this Harvey Comics character who appeared in SPEED COMICS. Don&#8217;t know too much about the character, he was apparently a newspaper publisher named Don [&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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","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\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}