{"id":89,"date":"2007-02-09T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/02\/was-everything-better-in-the-thirties\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T16:17:00","slug":"was-everything-better-in-thirties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Was Everything Better in the Thirties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/back-in-my-day-we-had-really-fantastic.html\">This<\/a> is decidedly Not Comics (\u00a9<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/\">Tom Spurgeon<\/a>), but since it&#8217;s from the author of two voluminous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9781932265040\">Alan Moore reference guides<\/a>, and concerns one of the wellsprings that nourished (or malnourished, I suppose, depending on your point of view) the birth of the modern comic book, I think it&#8217;s still of interest.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly: Six-Gun Gorilla!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4008\/3088\/1600\/895440\/sixgun.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/4008\/3088\/400\/399392\/sixgun.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is decidedly Not Comics (\u00a9Tom Spurgeon), but since it&#8217;s from the author of two voluminous Alan Moore reference guides, and concerns one of the wellsprings that nourished (or malnourished, I suppose, depending on your point of view) the birth of the modern comic book, I think it&#8217;s still of interest. More importantly: Six-Gun Gorilla!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[33,273,649,1064,1207],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-moore","tag-comics-vs-literature","tag-nevins","tag-pulp","tag-six-gun-gorilla"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}