{"id":12065,"date":"2013-12-26T23:17:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2013-12-26T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:17:38","slug":"feast-your-eyes-on-the-cover-to-my-collected-captain-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/26\/feast-your-eyes-on-the-cover-to-my-collected-captain-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast your eyes on the cover to my collected Captain Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, nearly every story I wrote for Marvel Comics (save for a  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/comic-books\/master-of-kung-fu-64-may-1978\/\"><em>Master of Kung Fu<\/em><\/a>, all issues of which I believe are in limbo due to rights questions with the Sax Rohmer estate) will be back in print. That&#8217;s because on June 24, 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marvel-Masterworks-Captain-Volume\/dp\/0785188924\"><em>Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel Volume 5<\/em><\/a> will be published, collecting my seven-issue run of the space-born superhero Mar-Vell, bookended by a few issues created by others.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the cover, which uses art from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/comic-books\/captain-marvel-50-may-1977\/\"><em>Captain Marvel<\/em> #50<\/a>, in which I separated Mar-Vell and Rick Jones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an alternate cover, which I believe is for those who&#8217;d prefer their volume to carry the numbering system of the complete Marvel Masterworks run, rather than that of the individual title.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks2-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks2\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks2-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CaptainMarvel5MarvelMasterworks2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since my issues make up the bulk of the book, Marvel invited me to write an introduction in which I&#8217;d reminisce about my time in the Bullpen and put my work in context, but after giving it a great deal of thought, I decided to pass on the offer &#8230; which is a story for another time.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;ll track down a copy and see what I was up to back in the days when I wrote comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, nearly every story I wrote for Marvel Comics (save for a Master of Kung Fu, all issues of which I believe are in limbo due to rights questions with the Sax Rohmer estate) will be back in print. That&#8217;s because on June 24, 2014, Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel Volume 5 will be published, collecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[248,18,20,29],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-captain-marvel","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12085,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions\/12085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}