{"id":580,"date":"2009-03-06T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2010-05-30T20:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T00:27:49","slug":"blue-devil-advertisement-june-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/06\/blue-devil-advertisement-june-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Devil Advertisement &#8211; June 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is an awesome advertisement from <em>Blue Devil<\/em> #1 (June 1984).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve mentioned it here before, but Blue Devil is one of my top five favorite superheroes.\u00a0 I think this ad really captures the fun of the series.\u00a0 All the facial expressions are smiling and cheerful, Blue Devil is leaping into action, and there is just an overall up-beat attitude to the ad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out the size of BD&#8217;s horns!\u00a0 They&#8217;re friggin&#8217; huge! I can&#8217;t explain it, but exaggerated features like this just add to the image, rather than detract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I love this book!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Blue Devil ad from Blue Devil #1 (1984)\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"774\" \/><\/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-580\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/06\/blue-devil-advertisement-june-1984\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li 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Geek. Based upon feedback I've received, quite a few people have enjoyed the Dan Mishkin & Gary Cohn interview.\u00a0 I'm thrilled to hear that!\u00a0 Keep your comments coming! There were a couple images\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blue Devil&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Blue Devil advertisement","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_ad.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1516,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/06\/blue-devil-1-original-thumbnails-from-creator\/","url_meta":{"origin":580,"position":1},"title":"Blue Devil #1 Original Thumbnails from Creator","date":"August 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We've got an incredibly rare opportunity today to show a never-before-published Blue Devil piece, and witness behind-the-scenes in the development of a comic book.\u00a0 Gary Cohn, co-creator and co-writer of DC's Blue Devil, recently unearthed his original sketched thumbnails for Blue Devil #1 (June 1984).\u00a0 These were thumbnails he drew\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_thumbnails_01s.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":182,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/22\/blue-devil-action-figure-announced\/","url_meta":{"origin":580,"position":2},"title":"Blue Devil Action Figure Announced!","date":"October 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Dude, I'm totally jazzed!\u00a0 It's just been announced that DC Direct will be producing a Blue Devil action figure!\u00a0 That's right, because I demanded it!\u00a0 Yup, just me.\u00a0 I can't imagine anyone else besides me has been clamoring for this.\u00a0 Blue Devil just so happens to be one of my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blue Devil&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Blue Devil action figure","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_fig.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1055,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/01\/blue-devil-week-sympathy-for-the-devil\/","url_meta":{"origin":580,"position":3},"title":"Blue Devil Week: Sympathy for the Devil","date":"June 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s BLUE DEVIL WEEK here at Once Upon a Geek! In the grand tradition of FLASH WEEK and AQUAMAN WEEK, we'll be exploring another of my top five favorite superheroes this week.\u00a0 And to finish it off on Friday we'll feature an exclusive ONCE UPON A GEEK interview with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blue Devil&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_ww85.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2872,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/23\/new-blue-devil-action-figure\/","url_meta":{"origin":580,"position":4},"title":"New Blue Devil Action Figure","date":"February 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mattel's DC Universe Classics line has a new Blue Devil action figure coming our way this spring!\u00a0 Check it out below. This figure is part of DC Universe Classics wave 13 and will be available this spring or summer at Wal-Mart. If you're a long time reader of ONCE UPON\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blue Devil&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Blue Devil DC Universe Classics figure","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_fig_dcuc.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1243,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/23\/kid-devil-original-drawing\/","url_meta":{"origin":580,"position":5},"title":"Kid Devil original drawing","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I had plans for today, but I'm still reeling from the amazing Father's Day gift I received.\u00a0 Go back and look at yesterday's post again.\u00a0 It's still the awesome! So today will be nice and easy.\u00a0 Check out this really cool Kid Devil\/Red Devil (from Teen Titans) original sketch by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/kiddevil.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}