{"id":636,"date":"2006-02-06T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2006\/02\/06\/daredevil-43-cover\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T12:21:00","slug":"daredevil-43-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/636","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil #43 [1968] &#8211; Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAREDEVIL #43, 1968, inked by Joe Sinnott.  I guess the Captain America guest appearance was the impetus for bringing Kirby back on DD covers for one issue several years in.  Whatever the reason, that&#8217;s a great action pose for the two characters.  You can see why Kirby was so often employed to do covers for books he didn&#8217;t draw interiors for. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image995\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/12\/Daredevil43_636.jpg\" alt=\"Daredevil43_636.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Regular DD artist of the time Gene Colan did an unused cover to this issue, with DD more prominent than Cap (and giving Cap a whupping).  You can see a version of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/gcolan\/colan\/dare\/da43cove.html\">here<\/a>.  So presumably the Kirby version was commissioned either to give Cap a larger place or not having him as the underdog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAREDEVIL #43, 1968, inked by Joe Sinnott. I guess the Captain America guest appearance was the impetus for bringing Kirby back on DD covers for one issue several years in. Whatever the reason, that&#8217;s a great action pose for the two characters. You can see why Kirby was so often employed to do covers for [&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-636","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\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}