{"id":310,"date":"2020-05-02T00:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2020-05-02T00:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:33:03","slug":"310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Day That Would\u2019ve Been Free Comic Book Day 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saturday May 2, 2020 would\u2019ve been Free Comic Book Day 2020 had it not been delayed. A special free comic book excerpt of my upcoming book \u201cJack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics\u201d was going to be released to stores across the country as part of this event, a Gold Sponsor Book. The image above was an early cover concept for the book back when the working title was simply \u201cKirby.\u201d The image shows Jack Kirby when he was a newsboy, like the ones he would later write and draw when he pioneered the \u201ckid gang\u201d genre with comics like \u201cThe Newsboy Legion\u201d in the 1940s. \u201cJack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics\u201d is the life story of Jack Kirby told in comics form. It covers the story of his parents, his childhood, his early experiences breaking into the newly formed comics industry, his wartime service, the postwar era of romance and horror comics, his comic strip days, his collaboration with Stan Lee, his auteur \u201870s work, his animation career in the 80s, and the ways his work continues to live on. You can preorder it here: https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/608042\/jack-kirby-by-tom-scioli\/?pdivflag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Day That Would\u2019ve Been Free Comic Book Day 2020 Saturday May 2, 2020 would\u2019ve been Free Comic Book Day 2020 had it not been delayed. A special free comic book excerpt of my upcoming book \u201cJack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics\u201d was going to be released to stores across the … Continue reading Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,43,21,37,41,44,36,35,28,38,40,39,42],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avengers","tag-comic-book","tag-comics-2","tag-dc","tag-fourth-world","tag-graphic-novel","tag-jack-kirby","tag-kirby","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-mister-miracle","tag-new-gods","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}