{"id":28776,"date":"2022-01-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28776"},"modified":"2022-01-09T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T03:01:46","slug":"batman-it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night-by-snoopy-charles-schulz-len-wein-walt-simonson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28776","title":{"rendered":"Batman &#8211; &#8220;It Was a Dark and Stormy Night&#8221; by Snoopy (Charles Schulz), Len Wein &#038; Walt Simonson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011022darkstorynight1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011022darkstorynight1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I was a kid <em>Peanuts<\/em> (especially Snoopy) was all the rage.\u00a0 I know for a fact I&#8217;ve read the strips above many times over the years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am also a long time comic book and Walt Simonson fan. I read the story below when it was first released (and many more times over the years).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;It wasn&#8217;t until last night that (thanks to a Tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsb1945\">Blake Scott Ball<\/a>) that I learned that Len Wein\/Walt Simonson actually turned Snoopy&#8217;s story into a Batman tale!\u00a0 I knew the &#8220;Dark and stormy night&#8221; was Snoopy&#8217;s famous first sentence, but I&#8217;d forgotten the rest.\u00a0 Seeing the Peanuts strips alongside the Batman tale brought a smile to my face and made me love &#8217;em both even more.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the art above and below to see them biggie-sized.\u00a0 Thanks to Blake Scott Ball for his Tweet!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011022darkstorynight2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011022darkstorynight2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011022darkstorynight3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z011022darkstorynight3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid Peanuts (especially Snoopy) was all the rage.\u00a0 I know for a fact I&#8217;ve read the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28777,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776\/revisions\/28777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}