{"id":1958,"date":"2011-03-03T08:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2011-03-03T08:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:12:19","slug":"youre-going-to-buy-me-this-jack-kirby-original-for-my-birthday-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/03\/youre-going-to-buy-me-this-jack-kirby-original-for-my-birthday-right\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re going to buy me this Jack Kirby original for my birthday &#8230; right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my birthday at the other end of this month&#8212;why, it&#8217;s exactly four weeks from today!&#8212;I know you&#8217;re wracking your brain trying to figure out exactly what to get me to celebrate the date. Well, wrack no further, because over on <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Kirby-Jack-AMAZING-FANTASY-15-COVER-RC-Original-Art-\/310189058372\">eBay<\/a>, I&#8217;ve located the perfect gift.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1994, just two months before his death, Jack Kirby recreated his original cover for <em>Amazing Fantasy<\/em> #15 (first published in 1962), and that beautiful penciled artwork is now up for sale. The asking price is a mere $60,000. And I know that when it comes to showing your love for me, cost is no object.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JackKirbyAmazingFantasy15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JackKirbyAmazingFantasy15-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"JackKirbyAmazingFantasy15\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JackKirbyAmazingFantasy15-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/JackKirbyAmazingFantasy15.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry. If a couple of you feel you need to chip in together, I won&#8217;t hold it against you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my birthday at the other end of this month&#8212;why, it&#8217;s exactly four weeks from today!&#8212;I know you&#8217;re wracking your brain trying to figure out exactly what to get me to celebrate the date. Well, wrack no further, because over on eBay, I&#8217;ve located the perfect gift. Back in 1994, just two months before his [&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":[18,22,20,23],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-jack-kirby","tag-marvel-comics","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}