{"id":13662,"date":"2014-02-22T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13662"},"modified":"2014-02-22T21:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T02:45:24","slug":"a-killer-captain-marvel-cover-from-gil-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/22\/a-killer-captain-marvel-cover-from-gil-kane\/","title":{"rendered":"A killer Captain Marvel cover from Gil Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out Richard Guion&#8217;s fun site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantsizemarvel.com\">Giant-Size Marvel<\/a> today and was pleasantly surprised to see  that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantsizemarvel.com\/2014\/02\/the-mark-of-gil-kane-captain-marvel-and.html\">he&#8217;d posted the original art<\/a> to the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/comic-books\/captain-marvel-53-november-1977\/\">an issue of <em>Captain Marvel<\/em> I wrote<\/a> a long, long time ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CaptainMarvel53CoverOriginal.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CaptainMarvel53CoverOriginal-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"CaptainMarvel53CoverOriginal\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CaptainMarvel53CoverOriginal-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CaptainMarvel53CoverOriginal-686x1024.jpeg 686w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CaptainMarvel53CoverOriginal.jpeg 2011w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I asked Richard where he&#8217;d found the art, he told me that <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ha.com\/c\/item.zx?saleNo=7087&#038;lotNo=92105\">it had sold yesterday<\/a> at Heritage Auctions&#8212;for $26,290.00!<\/p>\n<p>And if I&#8217;m correctly interpreting the Heritage stats, it&#8217;s the second highest price ever paid for a Gil Kane cover, exceeded only by  <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.ha.com\/c\/item.zx?saleNo=7079&#038;lotNo=92175\">the cover to <em>The Avengers #134<\/em><\/a>, which went for $41,825 on August 13, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I guess when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/comic-books\/captain-marvel-53-november-1977\/\">I wrote<\/a>, &#8220;oh, what a killer cover from Gil Kane,&#8221; I knew what I was talking about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out Richard Guion&#8217;s fun site Giant-Size Marvel today and was pleasantly surprised to see that he&#8217;d posted the original art to the cover of an issue of Captain Marvel I wrote a long, long time ago. When I asked Richard where he&#8217;d found the art, he told me that it had sold yesterday [&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":[248,47,29],"class_list":["post-13662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-captain-marvel","tag-gil-kane","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662","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=13662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13672,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}