{"id":2436,"date":"2011-03-31T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2011-03-31T22:55:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:55:51","slug":"youve-got-one-more-chance-to-id-the-mystery-comics-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/31\/youve-got-one-more-chance-to-id-the-mystery-comics-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve got one more chance to ID the mystery comics artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago, I challenged you<\/a> to identify a mystery photo of a comic book artist as a child. All I said about this person was that his or her “style became the signature look for a well-known character.” If you don’t remember, go take a look and come right back.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten many suggestions over the past 48 hours … all of them WRONG.<\/p>\n

Check out 23 people who the photo ISN’T.<\/p>\n

Neal Adams
\nC.C. Beck
\nJohn Buscema
\nDan DeCarlo
\nSteve Ditko
\nWill Eisner
\nWill Elder
\nBill Everett
\nHal Foster
\nFrank Frazetta
\nCarmine Infantino
\nBob Kane
\nGil Kane
\nJack Kirby
\nJoe Kubert
\nHarvey Kurtzman
\nStan Lee
\nJohn Romita, Sr.
\nJulius Schwartz
\nE. C. Segar
\nMarie Severin
\nCurt Swan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to give you guys one more chance. If I don’t hear the answer in 24 hours, I’ll spill the beans tomorrow night. But because it’s my birthday, and I’m in good mood, I’ll give you a clue. Here it goes—<\/p>\n

In addition to being the artist whose signature style defined a character, before working on that character, this artist previously worked for a comics company that was sued by the company he or she eventually ended up defining that character for.<\/p>\n

If I got any less cryptic than that, I’d just be giving<\/em> you the name. So that’s all you’re going to get. Now—have at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago, I challenged you to identify a mystery photo of a comic book artist as a child. All I said about this person was that his or her “style became the signature look for a well-known character.” If you don’t remember, go take a look and come right back. I’ve gotten […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","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=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}