{"id":1402,"date":"2011-10-11T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2011-10-11T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:24:47","slug":"a-1970-bernie-wrightson-science-fiction-comic-at-golden-age-comic-book-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/11\/a-1970-bernie-wrightson-science-fiction-comic-at-golden-age-comic-book-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1970 Berni Wrightson Science Fiction Comic at Golden Age Comic Book Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/web-of-horror-2-february1970-cover-art.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/berni_wrightson_science_fiction.gif\" alt=\"Berni Wrightson's 'Breathless' comic\" width=\"501\" height=\"221\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s unique, because even if I ever knew that Berni Wrightson never did another science fiction story that would have been so many brain cells ago that there&#8217;s no way I could remember (hey, it was the &#8217;70s). But at <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/web-of-horror-2-february1970-cover-art.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/em><\/a> you can see what has to be a very rare thing &#8211; Wrightson&#8217;s best known for his horror comics, after all, so the space suits and interplanetary rocket in <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldenagesite.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/web-of-horror-2-february1970-cover-art.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&quot;Breathless<\/a>&quot; are a real rarity.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One thing I really love in this one is the way he&#8217;s spotted his blacks and used rim lighting in a very Wally Woodish way, while the inking is still that nice juicy Wrightson brushwork.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This story first appeared in a magazine called <em>Web of Horror<\/em> in 1970. I don&#8217;t remember ever seeing that one (or I&#8217;d have been reading it) in what I do remember as racks full of Warren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&#038;x=0&#038;ref_=nb_sb_noss&#038;y=0&#038;field-keywords=creepy%20archives%20volume&#038;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=webomator-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\"><em>Creepy<\/em><\/a><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webomator-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?ie=UTF8&#038;x=0&#038;ref_=nb_sb_noss&#038;y=0&#038;field-keywords=creepy%20archives%20volume&#038;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks?url=search-alias=stripbooks&#038;_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=webomator-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">Eerie<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webomator-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s unique, because even if I ever knew that Berni Wrightson never did another science fiction story that would have been so many brain cells ago that there&#8217;s no way I could remember (hey, it was the &#8217;70s). But at Golden Age Comic Book Stories you can see what has to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}