{"id":417,"date":"2005-07-17T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/07\/17\/avengers-9-cover\/"},"modified":"2005-07-17T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T16:18:00","slug":"avengers-9-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/417","title":{"rendered":"The Avengers #9 [1964] &#8211; Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After drawing the first 8 issues, Kirby went to just drawing the covers for AVENGERS with this issue (returning to layout a few issues a while later).<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, that&#8217;s way to big an intro blurb for a character as lame as Wonder Man.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the first &#8220;floating heads&#8221; cover that Marvel had?  I know the format became a bit of a cliche in 1970s Marvel team books, but were there any before this one?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avengers9_417.jpg\" id=\"image756\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/04\/Avengers9_417.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chic Stone inks the cover this time.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1964<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After drawing the first 8 issues, Kirby went to just drawing the covers for AVENGERS with this issue (returning to layout a few issues a while later). I have to say, that&#8217;s way to big an intro blurb for a character as lame as Wonder Man. Is this the first &#8220;floating heads&#8221; cover that Marvel [&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-417","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\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}