{"id":43,"date":"2004-09-22T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/09\/22\/black-magic-dc-9-the-woman-in-the-tower\/"},"modified":"2004-09-22T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T15:20:40","slug":"black-magic-dc-9-the-woman-in-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/43","title":{"rendered":"Black Magic #9 [1975] &#8211; The Woman in the Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, Joe Simon re-packaged some of the stories done by the Simon&amp;Kirby shop in the 1950s for nine issues of BLACK MAGIC at DC.  There was one or more S&amp;K story in every issue, as well as work by Mort Meskin, Bill Draut and others.<\/p>\n<p>#9 featured a reprint from STANGE WORLDS OF YOUR DREAMS #3 (1952), &#8220;The Woman in the Tower&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a visual interpretation of what&#8217;s allegedly a dream sent in by a reader, involving being trapped in a tower with screaming voices  from the other cells and a cloaked figure, followed by an interpretation that this is actually a good dream.  Weird.  The purpose of course is to showcase the heavy atmospheric horror art that S&amp;K did so well, with dark inks, claustrophobic layouts and the darkly evil looking figure in the robe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1795\" title=\"bm9\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/bm9.jpg\" alt=\"bm9\" width=\"575\" height=\"837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/bm9.jpg 575w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/09\/bm9-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Published May, 1975<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, Joe Simon re-packaged some of the stories done by the Simon&amp;Kirby shop in the 1950s for nine issues of BLACK MAGIC at DC. There was one or more S&amp;K story in every issue, as well as work by Mort Meskin, Bill Draut and others. #9 featured a reprint from STANGE WORLDS OF [&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-43","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\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}