{"id":3661,"date":"2010-06-23T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2010-06-20T19:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T23:54:05","slug":"i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/23\/i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World by Jack Kirby\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/journey_shagg2.jpg\" alt=\"I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World by Jack Kirby\" width=\"348\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s right, True Believers&#8230; <em><strong>I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World<\/strong><strong>!<\/strong><\/em> Let all beware!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Well&#8230; maybe my mom unleashed Shag upon the world.\u00a0 There&#8217;s probably a pretty good, &#8220;your momma&#8221; joke in there somewhere.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What a great splash page!\u00a0 I love it!\u00a0 It was drawn by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers and appeared in <em>Journey into Mystery<\/em> #59 (1960).\u00a0 \u00a0 This is some good ole-fashioned Kirby awesome-ness!\u00a0 Prior to<em> <\/em>publishing <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> #1, Marvel was well-known for their &#8220;monster comics&#8221;.\u00a0 Shagg is a great example of those.\u00a0 To learn more about Marvel&#8217;s monster comics, <a title=\"Marvel Monsters\" href=\"http:\/\/comiccoverage.typepad.com\/comic_coverage\/know_your_marvel_monsters\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 For more information on Shagg, <a title=\"Shagg\" href=\"http:\/\/monsterblog.oneroom.org\/meet_the_monsters\/shagg.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> or <a title=\"Shagg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marvunapp.com\/Appendix\/shaggjim.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is the cover to this <em>Journey Into Mystery<\/em> issue.\u00a0 According to <a title=\"Journey into Mystery 59 on Comics.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/15732\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">comics.org<\/a>, this cover was done by Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.\u00a0 Since the cover and the splash page look so different, I gotta wonder if Kirby was actually involved with this cover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/journey_shagg1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World by Jack Kirby\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/journey_shagg1.jpg\" alt=\"I Unleashed Shagg Upon the World by Jack Kirby\" width=\"522\" height=\"764\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to my good buddy Ravenface for sending me information on the monster Shagg.\u00a0 I wonder if this monster was irredeemable?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3661\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/23\/i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-3661\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/23\/i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/23\/i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/23\/i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-3661\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/23\/i-unleashed-shagg-upon-the-world\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, True Believers&#8230; 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