{"id":827,"date":"2006-05-18T22:27:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T22:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/827"},"modified":"2006-05-18T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T22:27:33","slug":"marvel-spectacular-6-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/827","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Spectacular #6 [1974]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thor reprints continue this issue with &#8220;The Maddening Menace of the Man-Beast&#8221; from THOR #135 [1966].   The battle against the hyper-evolved wolf in Wundagore,  the home of the High Evolutionary, continues, with a lot of weird creatures and big battles until Thor finally prevails.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image826\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/05\/MrvlSpectacular61974.jpg\" alt=\"MrvlSpectacular61974.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the story, the High Evolutionary explains his background and leaves the world with his creations.  This was one of those characters that I have to assume Kirby had deeper plans for that he never got around to.  He&#8217;s a nice character design and there&#8217;s a lot of unrealized potential in the concept.<\/p>\n<p>One page, a look at what Odin is up to in Asgard, is edited out of the story, bringing it down to 15 pages.<\/p>\n<p>JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #121 [1965] is the source for the 5-page &#8220;Maelstrom&#8221;, continuing the &#8220;Tales of Asgard&#8221; quest storyline as the ship of Asgardians approaches the Pillars of Utgard.  The second page splash is a classic image, the original art was featured in a recent KIRBY COLLECTOR.  These back-ups are great showcase pieces for Kirby&#8217;s art, with a lot of powerful images coming fast in the five pages he had each month.<\/p>\n<p>Colletta inks both stories and the cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thor reprints continue this issue with &#8220;The Maddening Menace of the Man-Beast&#8221; from THOR #135 [1966]. The battle against the hyper-evolved wolf in Wundagore, the home of the High Evolutionary, continues, with a lot of weird creatures and big battles until Thor finally prevails. At the end of the story, the High Evolutionary explains his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-827","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\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}