{"id":2485,"date":"2011-04-02T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T00:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2011-04-02T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T00:27:26","slug":"and-the-secret-identity-of-that-comic-book-artist-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/02\/and-the-secret-identity-of-that-comic-book-artist-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the secret identity of that comic book artist is …"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who didn’t catch the correct answer when it was guessed, I figure I’d better announce here the identity of the comic book artist<\/a> I challenged you to identify.<\/p>\n

My first clue was that the artist’s “style became the signature look for a well-known character.”<\/p>\n

But that wasn’t enough of a clue for any of you to solve the mystery, as all that resulted were a couple of dozen wrong answers. So I gave a second clue, this time that “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

That was enough to give it away. Within 15 minutes, Jacque Nodell, she of the wonderful blog Sequential Crush<\/a>, popped up with the correct answer, which is … below, after the pic, in case you want one final chance to guess it on your own.<\/p>\n

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Give up?<\/p>\n

The artist was …<\/p>\n

Kurt Schaffenberger<\/a>!<\/p>\n

And the character for whom he provided the signature style (now that you know his name, do I really need to tell you?) was this one.<\/p>\n

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As for clue number two, which gave it all away, before working at DC, Schaffenberger also drew members of the Captain Marvel family for Fawcett.<\/p>\n

Satisfied?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who didn’t catch the correct answer when it was guessed, I figure I’d better announce here the identity of the comic book artist I challenged you to identify. My first clue was that the artist’s “style became the signature look for a well-known character.” But that wasn’t enough of a clue for any […]<\/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":[18,46],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}