{"id":533,"date":"2011-02-14T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T01:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:23:05","slug":"doorway-to-nightmare-5-october-1978","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/doorway-to-nightmare-5-october-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Doorway to Nightmare #5 (October 1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Madame Xanadu tale &#8220;The Day of the Devils&#8221; was, at 25 pages,  the longest comic book story I ever published. The interior of the issue was drawn by  penciler Romeo Tanghal and inker Vince Colletta, while Mike Kaluta provided the amazing cover. Just how amazing I wasn&#8217;t to find out for another thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>One afternoon in 2010 at the Same Diego Comic-Con, as I was racing from one end of the humongous exhibit hall to the other, I spotted a dealer selling the original art for the cover of this issue that I&#8217;d written so long, long ago. (Make that long, long, <em>long<\/em> ago.) So I stopped my power walking and asked, &#8220;How much do you want for the Kaluta?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The dealer&#8217;s answer? &#8220;Thirty.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You do realize I was meant to add three zeroes after that number, right? There was of course no way I could afford to own the drawing, but I figured I should at least get a picture with it. <\/p>\n<p>And so &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kaluta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kaluta-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kaluta\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kaluta-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Kaluta.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madame Xanadu tale &#8220;The Day of the Devils&#8221; was, at 25 pages, the longest comic book story I ever published. The interior of the issue was drawn by penciler Romeo Tanghal and inker Vince Colletta, while Mike Kaluta provided the amazing cover. Just how amazing I wasn&#8217;t to find out for another thirty years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534,"parent":30,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-533","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/533\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}