{"id":953,"date":"2009-05-05T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2009-05-04T23:36:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T03:36:38","slug":"the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/05\/the-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Beetle advertisement that ran in DC Comics cover dated June 1986.\u00a0 I love this Paris Cullins art!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Blue Beetle ad from 1986\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue-beetle-ad-86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"788\" \/><\/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 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Devil history.\u00a0 Gary Cohn, co-creator and co-writer of DC\u2019s Blue Devil, was kind enough to send copies of the original pitches used to sell the idea of Blue Devil to DC Comics.\u00a0 For the first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blue Devil&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DC Comics' Blue Devil Proposal by Gary Cohn, Dan Mishkin, and Paris Cullins","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blue_devil_proposal02.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":953,"position":1},"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. 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