{"id":570,"date":"2005-12-19T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/12\/19\/sandman-6-the-plot-to-destroy-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2005-12-19T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T23:54:00","slug":"sandman-6-the-plot-to-destroy-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/570","title":{"rendered":"The Sandman #6 [1976] &#8211; The Plot To Destroy Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final issue of the 1970s SANDMAN series (with one unused story seeing print <a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/178\">later<\/a>). It&#8217;s noteworthy for providing the final chance for Wallace Wood to ink Kirby&#8217;s pencils in the 18-page story, which otherwise makes as little sense as most Sandman stories. Doctor Spider manages to capture the Sandman and Glob, and plans to use the Sandman&#8217;s magic whistle to force President Ford to turn power over to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/12\/The-Sandman-6-1976.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3548\" alt=\"The Sandman #6 [1976]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/12\/The-Sandman-6-1976-684x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/12\/The-Sandman-6-1976-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/12\/The-Sandman-6-1976-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/12\/The-Sandman-6-1976.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for him, no one takes Doctor Spider threatening the President with the Sandman&#8217;s magic whistle very seriously (which is a pretty funny scene, I&#8217;ll grant you), and Brute and Jed are able to mount an attack and rescue the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Wood&#8217;s inks on Kirby are always interesting. He&#8217;s not quite as heavy with his own style as he was on some of their 1950s work together, but still a lot more than the usual Kirby inkers of the mid-1970s. While I prefer the style of Royer in general, it was nice to get one example of this kind of inking from the period.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final issue of the 1970s SANDMAN series (with one unused story seeing print later). It&#8217;s noteworthy for providing the final chance for Wallace Wood to ink Kirby&#8217;s pencils in the 18-page story, which otherwise makes as little sense as most Sandman stories. Doctor Spider manages to capture the Sandman and Glob, and [&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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","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\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}