{"id":3222,"date":"2010-06-03T03:11:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2010-06-03T03:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T07:11:36","slug":"beto-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3222","title":{"rendered":"Beto Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_3221\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beto2551.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3221\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/beto2551.jpg?resize=170%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3221\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beto fan art from 1981<\/p><\/div> Hey True Believers, Frankie The Wop here. I think I gotta start a new series of posts for <em>CC<\/em> for when I come across something like this. Maybe call it &#8220;Diggin&#8217; Thru the Bins&#8221; or something. This find is a real treat. It&#8217;s an illustration that I unearthed by Gilbert Hernandez in <em>The X-Men Chronicles<\/em> fanzine from 1981. It&#8217;s a nice drawing. But isn&#8217;t that Clea from Doctor Strange? Maybe it&#8217;s the White Queen?<\/p>\n<p>Published by FantaCo Enterprises, this fanzine boasts an interview with Jim Shooter, an X-Men checklist, an article on comic book investments, and look at the similarities between the Teen Titans and the X-Men. Apparently there&#8217;s a curious parallel in the history of the two &#8220;super-kid&#8221; teams but the &#8220;visual repertoire&#8221; of the Teen Titans is lacking according to the article.<\/p>\n<p>Heady stuff, but for me, 30 years later all that I care about is this wacky Beto sketch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey True Believers, Frankie The Wop here. I think I gotta start a new series of posts for CC for when I come across something like this. Maybe call it &#8220;Diggin&#8217; Thru the Bins&#8221; or something. This find is a real treat. It&#8217;s an illustration that I unearthed by Gilbert Hernandez in The X-Men Chronicles fanzine from 1981. It&#8217;s a nice drawing. But isn&#8217;t that Clea from Doctor Strange? Maybe [&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":[3],"tags":[428,500,1389],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fanzines","tag-gilbert-hernandez","tag-x-men"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","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=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}