{"id":601,"date":"2011-02-14T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T02:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:20:43","slug":"the-unexpected-197-april-1980","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/the-unexpected-197-april-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected #197 (April 1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet that my supernatural tale in this issue was the only time a story from one of DC&#8217;s horror comics was ever adapted into an episode of a TV show. (If I&#8217;m wrong, you&#8217;ll let me know, won&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Ghost Writer, the Vampire,&#8221; the six-page comic book story of mine drawn by Tenny Henson, was adapted into &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/television\/takes-from-the-darkside-my-ghost-writer-the-vampire\/\">My Ghost Writer, the Vampire<\/a>,&#8221; an episode of <em>Tales From the Darkside<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re both about a lousy horror writer who becomes a bestseller after he makes a deal with a vampire to hide the bloodsucker during the days in exchange for the knowledge to write better books. (Hint: It doesn&#8217;t end well for the writer. But when does it ever?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet that my supernatural tale in this issue was the only time a story from one of DC&#8217;s horror comics was ever adapted into an episode of a TV show. (If I&#8217;m wrong, you&#8217;ll let me know, won&#8217;t you?) &#8220;My Ghost Writer, the Vampire,&#8221; the six-page comic book story of mine drawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602,"parent":30,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-601","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/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\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}