{"id":264,"date":"2008-02-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2008\/02\/ogden-whitney\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T03:30:00","slug":"ogden-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Ogden Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/R8I3CeFMcxI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/1Xkj6rD_-bc\/s1600-h\/whitney1135.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/R8I3CeFMcxI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/1Xkj6rD_-bc\/s400\/whitney1135.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170755837748867858\" \/><\/a>From <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Big Shot<\/span> number 67, July 1946.<\/p>\n<p>The text reads:  Welcome home, Ogden Whitney!  HELLO, FANS!  Big Shot Comics is happy to announce the return of OGDEN WHITNEY to its fine art staff.  After drawing SKYMAN for four years, Ogden enlisted in the U.S. Army.  Now, back from the Pacific War Zone with a chestful of campaign ribbons and an honorable discharge, Ogden has settled down to the task of offering our readers the finest quality in comic strip entertainment.  We are sure all of you will join us in saying, &#8220;WELCOME HOME, OGDEN WHITNEY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I bought this issue of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Big Shot<\/span> at one of those Big Apple Cons that are across the street from Madison Square Garden a couple years ago.  I think the whole <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Comics Comics<\/span> staff was there.  That was the show where this one dealer had all these old, ratty, retarded comics &#8211;the kind we really love here at <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Comics Comics<\/span>.  This guy had a small table way in the back and no customers really.  He had the greatest stuff.  Old <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Archies<\/span>, a lot of beat Wally Wood comics, weird Western comics, Romances, etc.  Anyways, Tim, Dan and I cleaned him out as best we could.  And of course, we never saw him again.<\/p>\n<p>So it was a good thing that I picked up this <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Big Shot<\/span> then for four bucks. Anyways, I completely forgot that I had this issue and was leafing through it and found the above splash page for the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Skyman<\/span> story.  I&#8217;m not big on war heroes, but I am big on Ogden Whitney.  He might really be my favorite comics artist.  And this splash is just crazy.  Whitney, Kirby, and many others made it back from the war.  Seeing this just made me think, &#8220;What if he&#8217;d been killed?&#8221; Would I even know his work today?  Probably not.  Without getting too weepy about the whole thing, I simply found this splash too good to not share with all of the Whitney fans out there.  Or at least Bill, Jim, Dan, and Tim, ha.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/R8I_7OFMcyI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/eedlaHOmsk4\/s1600-h\/whitney2136.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/R8I_7OFMcyI\/AAAAAAAAAJk\/eedlaHOmsk4\/s320\/whitney2136.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170765608799466274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Big Shot number 67, July 1946. The text reads: Welcome home, Ogden Whitney! HELLO, FANS! Big Shot Comics is happy to announce the return of OGDEN WHITNEY to its fine art staff. After drawing SKYMAN for four years, Ogden enlisted in the U.S. Army. Now, back from the Pacific War Zone with a chestful of campaign ribbons and an honorable discharge, Ogden has settled down to the task of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[605,983],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kirby","tag-o-whitney"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}