{"id":14198,"date":"2008-10-09T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14198"},"modified":"2014-03-19T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T20:38:17","slug":"happy-59th-birthday-jim-starlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/happy-59th-birthday-jim-starlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 59th birthday, Jim Starlin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m celebrating Jim Starlin&#8217;s birthday by dipping into my collection of comic-book convention sketches and posting yet another drawing done back when I was an annoying teenager (as opposed to an annoying adult).  This one was done in the early &#8217;70s, probably 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The sketch is of Jim&#8217;s fanzine superhero, Doctor Weird, Master of the Macabre, who appeared in <i>Star Studded Comics<\/i> starting in the mid-&#8217;60s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JimStarlinSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JimStarlinSketch-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"JimStarlinSketch\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JimStarlinSketch-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/JimStarlinSketch.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Jim was just starting to make the move from fanzines to working in comics professionally, while I was still a fan only. Six years later, in 1977, by then a comics professional myself, I had the misfortune of taking over as the writer on <i>Captain Marvel<\/i> following Jim&#8217;s acclaimed run &#8230; which meant that I had to open a lot of hate mail!<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Jim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m celebrating Jim Starlin&#8217;s birthday by dipping into my collection of comic-book convention sketches and posting yet another drawing done back when I was an annoying teenager (as opposed to an annoying adult). This one was done in the early &#8217;70s, probably 1971. The sketch is of Jim&#8217;s fanzine superhero, Doctor Weird, Master of the [&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":[151,169],"class_list":["post-14198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-jim-starlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198","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=14198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14200,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198\/revisions\/14200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}