{"id":594,"date":"2006-01-09T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2006\/01\/09\/black-magic-dc-6-girl-who-walked-on-water\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:48:00","slug":"black-magic-dc-6-girl-who-walked-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/594","title":{"rendered":"Black Magic #6 [1974]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One 6-page S&amp;K reprint in this issue, &#8220;Girl Who Walked on Water&#8221;\u00a0from BLACK MAGIC #11[v2n5] (1952). Two guys in a mail order firm discover a young girl who is able to walk on water or up walls, simply because she doesn&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any reason she shouldn&#8217;t be able to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/Black-Magic-6-1974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3106\" alt=\"Black Magic #6 [1974]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/Black-Magic-6-1974-693x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/Black-Magic-6-1974-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/Black-Magic-6-1974-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/Black-Magic-6-1974-624x921.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/01\/Black-Magic-6-1974.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They see the money-making possibilities in this immediately, but unfortunately before they&#8217;re able to arrange a demonstration for the press a young neighbour of the girl sees her walking down a wall and attempts the same thing, getting badly injured. This shakes her confidence so the next time she tried water-walking she has, for the first time, the idea in her mind that she might sink, and so of course does.<\/p>\n<p>A clever little story, with a lot of nice visual touches, including a really great panel where one of the men has to rescue the drowning girl at the end, plus the little details in the girl&#8217;s cramped little apartment. Some funny captions, as well, like &#8220;my thoughts ran wild and merged and frothed and hissed like soapsuds lurching from one side to the other of my reeling brain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One 6-page S&amp;K reprint in this issue, &#8220;Girl Who Walked on Water&#8221;\u00a0from BLACK MAGIC #11[v2n5] (1952). Two guys in a mail order firm discover a young girl who is able to walk on water or up walls, simply because she doesn&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s any reason she shouldn&#8217;t be able to. They see the money-making possibilities [&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-594","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\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}