{"id":954,"date":"2011-02-20T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T04:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T04:14:51","slug":"the-captain-midnight-action-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/the-captain-midnight-action-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captain Midnight Action Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have enough decades gone by that it&#8217;s safe for me to admit I never liked Ovaltine? Luckily, that didn&#8217;t stop me from writing and editing  <em>The Captain Midnight Action Book for Sports Health &#038; Nutrition<\/em>, an 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; 128-page trade paperback about &#8230; well &#8230; exactly what it says in the title.<\/p>\n<p>It was never meant to be an in-depth look at any of those things, more a kid&#8217;s book crossed with a coloring book, filled with basic trivia and facts. The book was illustrated by Don Perlin, then known best for  Marvel&#8217;s  <em>Werewolf by Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I put the project together for Marvel in 1977 after the company was contracted by Ovaltine  to create the book around its famous character. I&#8217;m no longer sure whether this was ever for sale in bookstores, or if it was only available as a self-liquidating premium in exchange for labels and a couple of bucks. All I know is that not that many of them must have been sold, because after all these years it&#8217;s considered extremely scarce by at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hakes.com\/item.asp?ListID=96&#038;ItemNo=79775\">one auction site<\/a>, where it sold for $55.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have enough decades gone by that it&#8217;s safe for me to admit I never liked Ovaltine? Luckily, that didn&#8217;t stop me from writing and editing The Captain Midnight Action Book for Sports Health &#038; Nutrition, an 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; 128-page trade paperback about &#8230; well &#8230; exactly what it says in the title. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956,"parent":28,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-954","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}