{"id":4147,"date":"2017-05-26T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2017-05-26T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T03:36:14","slug":"the-microscope-army-k006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4147","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Microscopic Army&#8221; (k006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4149\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a-1024x916.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006a-624x558.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Microscopic Army&#8221; is a 5-page story by Jack Kirby published by Marvel in\u00a0YELLOW CLAW #3 [1957]. \u00a0Following the first issue of the series, by creators Al Feldstein and Joe Maneely, the next three were done by Kirby. Each issue has four stories, a total of 19 pages each issue, making up more than half of the published Kirby work in this brief 1956\/1957 period of working at Marvel (the bulk of the other pages were western stories, plus a war story and a couple of \u00a0science fiction tales).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4148 alignright\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006-768x1115.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k006-624x906.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a>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>Kirby would use the shrinking gimmick several more times in his career, such as the &#8220;Scrapper Troopers&#8221; of the DNA Project, a\u00a0Private Strong story and several stories at Marvel, including the Ant-Man.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/13368\/#111063<br \/>\nGOLDEN AGE OF MARVEL #1 [1997]<br \/>\nMARVEL MASTERWORKS #123 [2009]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Microscopic Army&#8221; is a 5-page story by Jack Kirby published by Marvel in\u00a0YELLOW CLAW #3 [1957]. \u00a0Following the first issue of the series, by creators Al Feldstein and Joe Maneely, the next three were done by Kirby. Each issue has four stories, a total of 19 pages each issue, making up more than half [&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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k100"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}