{"id":799,"date":"2008-02-14T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2008-02-15T08:32:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:32:51","slug":"bob-scully-the-2-fisted-hick-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/bob-scully-the-2-fisted-hick-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"BOB SCULLY: The 2 Fisted Hick Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across an auction for this hilarious and amazing looking, very early all original material comic book from 1933 on Ebay today&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/BOB-SCULLY-The-2-Fisted-Hick-Detective-PLATINUM-AGE_W0QQitemZ330212033715QQihZ014QQcategoryZ65QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem\">more images can be seen there<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/comicart\/bobscully.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what comics historian Robert Beerbohm says about this book (in an excerpt from his upcoming book <em>Comics Archeology 101<\/em> called <em>ORIGIN OF THE MODERN COMIC BOOK 1 1919-1933<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.ebay.com\/ORIGIN-OF-THE-MODERN-COMIC-BOOK-1-1919-1933_W0QQugidZ10000000005276763\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the 1933 newsstand appearance of Humor&#8217;s <em>Detective Dan<\/em>, <em>Adventures of Detective Ace King<\/em>, <em>Bob Scully, Two Fisted Hick Detective<\/em>, and possibly the still unrediscovered but definitely advertised <em>Happy Mulligan<\/em>, these little understood original-material comic books were the direct inspiration for Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to transform their fanzine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evil character The Superman from Science Fiction #3 (January 1933) into a comic strip that would stand as a watershed heroic mark in American pop culture. The stage was set for a new frontier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/comicart\/bobscully02.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across an auction for this hilarious and amazing looking, very early all original material comic book from 1933 on Ebay today&#8230; more images can be seen there. Here&#8217;s what comics historian Robert Beerbohm says about this book (in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/bob-scully-the-2-fisted-hick-detective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-auctions","category-obscure-images","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}