{"id":1651,"date":"2010-12-29T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2010-12-29T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:08:43","slug":"before-they-were-comic-book-stars-9-kelley-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/before-they-were-comic-book-stars-9-kelley-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Comic Book Stars #9 Kelley Jones"},"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\/chrome-1.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"Chrome #1 by Kelley Jones\" alt=\"Chrome #1 by Kelley Jones\">Whether or not you&#8217;re a fan of his enormous, flowing cape design you&#8217;ve got to admit that <strong>Kelley Jones <\/strong>has created one of the most memorable <strong>Batman <\/strong>looks the character has seen in sixty years. His work on the news-making <em>Knightfall <\/em>storyline propelled him to comic stardom but, a decade earlier he was cutting his teeth on lower-tier Marvel titles like <em>Micronauts: the New Voyages <\/em> (1984) and even indy titles like Hot Comics&#8217; <em>Chrome<\/em> (1986). <\/p>\n<p><em>Chrome <\/em>was released during the black and white indy glut of comics hoping to replicate the success of Eastman &#038; Laird&#8217;s <em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/em>. The unfinished series focused on a mystery trying to discover the true identity of an astronaut sealed within an experimental space-suit.<\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22kelley+jones%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Kelley Jones<\/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. Whether or not you&#8217;re a fan of his enormous, flowing cape design you&#8217;ve [&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-1651","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\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}