{"id":37760,"date":"2022-06-09T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37760"},"modified":"2022-06-09T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:21:06","slug":"what-i-miss-about-comics-wally-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/09\/what-i-miss-about-comics-wally-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Miss About Comics &#8211; Wally Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Heroes, INC. Presents Cannon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52132829728\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/goofy-ideas\/comics-head-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"COMICS-HEAD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/COMICS-HEAD.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52132829728_d41504cdff_z.jpg?resize=428%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Heroes, INC. Presents Cannon\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This is an independently published comic by master illustrator <em><strong>Wally Wood<\/strong>.<\/em> It also features work by <em>Spider-Man<\/em> and <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> co-creator <strong><em>Steve Ditko! Marie Severin <\/em><\/strong>who is one of my all time favorites provides colors. This issue is really <em>the<\/em> complete package!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an independently published comic by master illustrator Wally Wood. It also features work by Spider-Man and Doctor Strange co-creator Steve Ditko! Marie Severin who is one of my all time favorites provides colors. This issue is really the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/09\/what-i-miss-about-comics-wally-wood\/\">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":[335],"tags":[1909,5354,5355,312,4384],"class_list":["post-37760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-1909","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-comic","tag-wally-wood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9P2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23581,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/05\/01\/ask-your-father\/","url_meta":{"origin":37760,"position":0},"title":"Ask Your Father","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ma, it says right here that they'll send ya 'ONE PREGNANT MALE who will give birth to as many as 25 babies!' 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