{"id":945,"date":"2006-10-29T02:35:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T02:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/945"},"modified":"2006-10-29T02:35:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T02:35:15","slug":"marvel-super-action-7-1978-in-the-name-of-batroc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/945","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Super Action #7 [1978] &#8211; In the Name of Batroc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This issue has an edited reprint of CAPTAIN AMERICA #105 [1968], with some very nice inking by Dan Adkins.  Unfortunately, despite the fine look that Adkins brings to the art, this isn&#8217;t one of my favourite of Kirby&#8217;s Cap stories.  The art is fine, but the story isn&#8217;t too memorable, mostly by the numbers.  Following a prelude where Cap watches some old footage of himself and Bucky during WWII, Cap is given a mission to find a hidden seismo-bomb, just as three second-string villains, Batroc, the Swordsman and the Living Laser, are also on the search.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image944\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/10\/MrvlSuperAction71978.jpg\" alt=\"MrvlSuperAction71978.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cap is able to defeat the villains, as the seismo-bombs perliminary quakes go off around them, finally disabling the bomb (including a very odd line about &#8220;another who gave his life for the masses, many centuries ago&#8221;.  There are a few Marvel comics from that era with odd religious asides, I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s up with that).<\/p>\n<p>The two pages edited out (bringing this down to 18 pages) are from a very striking but pretty superflous two-page spread of Cap and Bucky in WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue has an edited reprint of CAPTAIN AMERICA #105 [1968], with some very nice inking by Dan Adkins. Unfortunately, despite the fine look that Adkins brings to the art, this isn&#8217;t one of my favourite of Kirby&#8217;s Cap stories. The art is fine, but the story isn&#8217;t too memorable, mostly by the numbers. Following [&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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","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\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}