{"id":3421,"date":"2022-07-30T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:55:05","slug":"knockoff-kirby-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"KNOCKOFF KIRBY WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(All-New Comics 009, 1944)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjMl1X9Gsoa3xieblwr3zFUgGJDaUpzPofB_0kbZBbTrhBnYJxCkWWRQjSPD_tkV6CMSjvGM1_Z_7W3F2OSPrFIV47bLlZaPd2OQtXF5xiZgODAD_pp_ISmwAIE4WtPEjuNE30kP5uIcbZzD-QE1ag_N3TnDtU3soHsnMMNqd9kBWDBuDN7z0p2ZPf3Iw\/w640-h550\/knockoff%20kirby%20all-new%20009%20harvey%201944.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"785\" data-original-width=\"913\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjMl1X9Gsoa3xieblwr3zFUgGJDaUpzPofB_0kbZBbTrhBnYJxCkWWRQjSPD_tkV6CMSjvGM1_Z_7W3F2OSPrFIV47bLlZaPd2OQtXF5xiZgODAD_pp_ISmwAIE4WtPEjuNE30kP5uIcbZzD-QE1ag_N3TnDtU3soHsnMMNqd9kBWDBuDN7z0p2ZPf3Iw\/w640-h550\/knockoff%20kirby%20all-new%20009%20harvey%201944.JPG\" title=\"knockoff kirby\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A series of facts:<\/p>\n<p>-one of the things that Kirby was the King of was kid gang comics.<\/p>\n<p>-Kirby often included in his work characters who were some degree of inspired by him: Brooklyn, Scrapper, the Thing, Terrible Turpin, etc. For the purposes of this bit we shall call them kirbies.<\/p>\n<p>-the Boy Heroes, pictured above, are easily spotted as a knockoff of a Kirby kid gang, down to a attempt to mimic his art style, and Punchy, driving the motorcycle, is unmistakably a knockoff kirby.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, we shall keep watch for further knockoff kirbies. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(All-New Comics 009, 1944) A series of facts: -one of the things that Kirby was the King of was kid gang comics. -Kirby often included in his work characters who were some degree of inspired by him: Brooklyn, Scrapper, the Thing, Terrible Turpin, etc. For the purposes of this bit we shall call them kirbies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,1934,239,1638,1933,1637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1935","category-all-new-comics","category-harvey-comics","category-kid-gang","category-kirbies","category-knockoff-kirbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}