{"id":18702,"date":"2015-02-12T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18702"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:35:24","slug":"lou-costello-reads-a-comic-book-thatll-probably-never-be-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/12\/lou-costello-reads-a-comic-book-thatll-probably-never-be-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou Costello reads a comic book that&#8217;ll probably never be identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\">News From Me<\/a> the other day, Mark Evanier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2015\/02\/11\/todays-video-link-1890\/\">posted<\/a> an episode of <em>The Abbott &#038; Costello Show<\/em> which is well worth watching, and not just for the classic bits. There&#8217;s also a scene during which Lou Costello is shown reading a comic book, one  seen so briefly and so incompletely that we&#8217;ll likely never learn <em>which<\/em> comic book.<\/p>\n<p>And you know how I get when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2015\/02\/07\/can-you-id-the-comic-book-in-annie-hall\/\">I can&#8217;t identify<\/a> a  comic being used as a prop!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AbbottandCostelloComic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AbbottandCostelloComic-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"AbbottandCostelloComic\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AbbottandCostelloComic-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/AbbottandCostelloComic.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the screen grab above, we never get a glimpse of the cover, just some blurry panels that would probably only be recognizable to someone who had completely memorized  the interiors of every comic from that period.<\/p>\n<p>That person isn&#8217;t me, and probably isn&#8217;t you either. But in the hope this might reach someone who does have such an eidetic memory, I&#8217;m putting the info out there. <\/p>\n<p>Because if I don&#8217;t find out what comic book that was, how will I ever know peace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on News From Me the other day, Mark Evanier posted an episode of The Abbott &#038; Costello Show which is well worth watching, and not just for the classic bits. There&#8217;s also a scene during which Lou Costello is shown reading a comic book, one seen so briefly and so incompletely that we&#8217;ll likely [&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":[18],"class_list":["post-18702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702","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=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18717,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions\/18717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}