{"id":1200,"date":"2010-09-22T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2010-09-22T07:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:13:52","slug":"before-they-were-comic-book-stars-8-jim-steranko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/before-they-were-comic-book-stars-8-jim-steranko\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Comic Book Stars #8 Jim Steranko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/strange-tales-151.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"Strange Tales #151 by Jim Steranko\" alt=\"Strange Tales #151 by Jim Steranko\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.steranko.com\/\">Jim Steranko<\/a>&#8216;s unique art style made him one of the first comic book super-star artists. Over four decades ago, he created covers for <em>Captain America <\/em>and <em>Nick Fury <\/em>that are still paid homage to by today&#8217;s artists.<\/p>\n<p>His first comic art was published in September 1966 and two months later, his first Marvel work was published in <em>Strange Tales<\/em> #151. Not only did he provided the cover alongside <strong>Jack Kirby <\/strong>but, he also worked on the interior art of the Nick Fury story, as well. A few short months later and <strong>Jim Steranko <\/strong>was drawing <em>and <\/em>writing the <strong>Nick Fury <\/strong>feature. Not too bad for his first year in comics.<\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22jim+steranko%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Jim Steranko<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars. Jim Steranko&#8216;s unique art style made him one of the first comic book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-comic-book-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}