{"id":37147,"date":"2022-01-26T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37147"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:55:12","slug":"out-of-context-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/out-of-context-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Context Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Phantom!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51843343441\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51843343441_4d336cda03_c.jpg?resize=640%2C799&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Phantom!\" width=\"640\" height=\"799\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A panel from <em>The Phantom<\/em> from March 22, 1980. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on here. I never really got into daily newspaper comic strips preferring comic books instead. I would get a chuckle from the humor strips, but wasn&#8217;t interested enough to pursue the action stories. It always seemed to me that nothing really happened. It was tough propelling a story three panels at a time.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Phantom<\/em> was the original bearer of the skull logo which <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/21\/dont-mess-with-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Punisher<\/em> seems to have adopted<\/a>. I guess you can&#8217;t trademark a human skull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panel from The Phantom from March 22, 1980. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s going on here. I never really got into daily newspaper comic strips preferring comic books instead. I would get a chuckle from the humor strips, but wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/26\/out-of-context-comics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120,335],"tags":[366,5256,2668,5255],"class_list":["post-37147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curious-clutter","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-366","tag-comic-strip","tag-march-22-1980","tag-the-phantom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9F9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37116,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/01\/21\/dont-mess-with-success\/","url_meta":{"origin":37147,"position":0},"title":"Don&#8217;t Mess With Success","author":"Joe","date":"January 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Pictured above is an enamel lapel pin of The Punisher's logo. 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