{"id":4883,"date":"2013-11-04T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2013-11-04T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:08:33","slug":"nick-cardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/11\/04\/nick-cardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/aquaman45-cover.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"595\" alt=\"Nick Cardy cover of Aquaman 45\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDamn. <cite>Comics Beat<\/cite> just reported <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsbeat.com\/rip-nick-cardy\/\">Nick Cardy had passed away<\/a>; at age 93 or 94 not quite surprising but still upsetting. Twentyfive years or so agao when I started out collecting comics, it was his <cite>Aquaman<\/cite> covers that drew me to collect the Dutch reprints of that series, even before I knew who drew them. Just look at the one shown above. That&#8217;s a great image but also a brilliant hook, something that makes you want to read the story that it suggests. Almost all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\/series\/1488\/covers\/\">his Aquaman covers<\/a>, especially the later ones, are like that.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/aquaman33-cover.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" alt=\"Nick Cardy cover of Aquaman 45\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhat I also like about him were his women, like Aquagirl here, pretty, but like his men with bodies that looked tough and capable of doing all the stunts a superhero life requires. His women had actual muscles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. Comics Beat just reported Nick Cardy had passed away; at age 93 or 94 not quite surprising but still upsetting. Twentyfive years or so agao when I started out collecting comics, it was his Aquaman covers that drew me to collect the Dutch reprints of that series, even before I knew who drew them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1773],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","tag-nick-cardy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}