{"id":966,"date":"2006-11-29T02:57:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T02:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/966"},"modified":"2006-11-29T02:57:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T02:57:54","slug":"gunsmoke-western-52-1959-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/966","title":{"rendered":"Gunsmoke Western #52 [1959] &#8211; Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think by 1959 a comic book publisher could have figured out how to put the comics code stamp on a cover without making it look like the book is called GUNSMOKB WESTERN, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, another of Kirby&#8217;s covers early on his return to Marvel, featuring two characters he didn&#8217;t draw interiors for but drew on a lot of covers. Split covers like this always look a bit cramped, but in this case I like how it emphasizes the tall, lanky look of Earp and the crowding of the group around Kid Colt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image967\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/11\/GunsmokeWestern521959C.jpg\" alt=\"GunsmokeWestern521959C.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inking on this one is credited to Chris Rule.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1959<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think by 1959 a comic book publisher could have figured out how to put the comics code stamp on a cover without making it look like the book is called GUNSMOKB WESTERN, wouldn&#8217;t you? Anyway, another of Kirby&#8217;s covers early on his return to Marvel, featuring two characters he didn&#8217;t draw interiors for but [&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":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-western"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}