{"id":18127,"date":"2010-02-25T23:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T04:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18127"},"modified":"2015-01-24T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T01:09:40","slug":"john-byrnes-shang-she-mistress-of-kung-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/25\/john-byrnes-shang-she-mistress-of-kung-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"John Byrne&#8217;s Shang-She, Mistress of Kung Fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2010\/02\/22\/the-secret-origins-of-roger-stern-and-ralph-macchio\/\">I dug out<\/a> the March 1975 issue of <i>FOOM<\/i> last week, I found something fun on the back cover&#8212;a piece of John Byrne art I don&#8217;t think has seen print in 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why we ran this image that issue, not when it was a &#8220;Special Cosmic Issue,&#8221; with all the other feature content relating to Marvel&#8217;s cosmic characters such as Captain Marvel, the Silver Surfer, and Adam Warlock. John probably just whipped up the spoof as a joke and we all thought it so silly we couldn&#8217;t resist sharing it. <\/p>\n<p>Which is sort of the same reason I&#8217;m sharing it now.<\/p>\n<p>So check out Shang-She, Mistress of Kung Fu, as she teams up with Iron Sis to take on the insidious Su Manchu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/scottedelman\/pic\/000f41bp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/scottedelman\/pic\/000f41bp\/s320x240\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I dug out the March 1975 issue of FOOM last week, I found something fun on the back cover&#8212;a piece of John Byrne art I don&#8217;t think has seen print in 35 years. I have no idea why we ran this image that issue, not when it was a &#8220;Special Cosmic Issue,&#8221; with all [&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":[61,179,20],"class_list":["post-18127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foom","tag-john-byrne","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18127","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=18127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18129,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18127\/revisions\/18129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}