{"id":597,"date":"2012-12-20T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/?p=597"},"modified":"2012-12-20T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:33:24","slug":"heavy-metal-may-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2012\/12\/20\/heavy-metal-may-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Metal, May 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late 1984, Jan and Dean Mullaney’s Eclipse Comics published SIEGEL & SHUSTER: DATELINE 1930s, which published at-that-point unseen work produced by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before being hired by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935.<\/p>\n

Publication of the book, which was 36 pages and the same dimensions as a comic book, even rated a blurb in the May 1985 cover-date issue of Heavy Metal magazine, written by Bhob Stewart, longtime writer for the magazine.<\/p>\n

\"Heavy<\/p>\n

The article is a very surprising find, given that Heavy Metal lies far outside the wheelhouse of Siegel and Shuster and that there is unlikely to be a wide cross-section of people who are both avid readers of Heavy Metal and fans of pre-Golden Age comics.<\/p>\n

A second issue of SIEGEL & SHUSTER: DATELINE 1930s was published in 1985 but, despite the article’s suggestion, did not reprint any FUNNYMAN stories, instead opting for more unseen work from the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In late 1984, Jan and Dean Mullaney’s Eclipse Comics published SIEGEL & SHUSTER: DATELINE 1930s, which published at-that-point unseen work produced by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before being hired by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935. Publication of the book, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[144,12,13,143],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifacts","tag-heavy-metal","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-siegel-shuster-dateline-1930s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}