{"id":869,"date":"2006-08-15T01:45:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T01:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/869"},"modified":"2006-08-15T01:45:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T01:45:33","slug":"devil-dinosaur-3-1978-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/869","title":{"rendered":"Devil Dinosaur #3 [1978] &#8211; Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intruder enters the Valley of Flame in this issue, a giant human-like being wearing the skull of a thunder-horn and rampaging through the forests. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image868\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/07\/DevilDinosaur31978.jpg\" alt=\"DevilDinosaur31978.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moon-Boy goes to find out what kind of creature this is, and gets captured by the object of the giant&#8217;s search, his son who had wandered into the valley.  Of course, neither father or son, despite their giant frames, are any match for the cunning of Devil and Moon-Boy.  Fortunately for them, Moon-Boy puts everything together in the end and convinces Devil to rescue the Giant and re-unite the pair to leave the Valley in peace.<\/p>\n<p>This is my favourite issue of the short run of this series, a good solid complete adventure with a lot of action, some clever planning by Moon-Boy and a nice ending.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer inks the 17-page story and cover.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby also writes a one-page text piece, &#8220;The X Age&#8230; A Comic Book Bonanza&#8221;, about how filling in the blanks on pre-history is a fertile ground for comic book creators, or &#8220;Comic Bookeroos&#8221; as Kirby calls them.  I&#8217;m surprised that name never caught on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Published 1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intruder enters the Valley of Flame in this issue, a giant human-like being wearing the skull of a thunder-horn and rampaging through the forests. Moon-Boy goes to find out what kind of creature this is, and gets captured by the object of the giant&#8217;s search, his son who had wandered into the valley. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}