{"id":41379,"date":"2026-04-03T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41379"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:35:32","slug":"frank-frazettas-a-man-called-dagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41379","title":{"rendered":"Frank Frazetta&#8217;s &#8220;A Man Called Dagger&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z040326mancalleddagger.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z040326mancalleddagger.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a rare Frank Frazetta piece.\u00a0 Titled<em> A Man Called Dagger<\/em>, it was created around 1968 for a proposed movie of the same name.\u00a0 <em>A Man Called Dagger<\/em> was to be a new entry into the popular James Bond knockoff genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The painting was never used.\u00a0 Producers ran into budgetary issues and the production came to a halt.\u00a0 Although the film was eventually made by a new studio, the art was never used.\u00a0 It is thought that the new studio didn&#8217;t know about Frazetta&#8217;s contribution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frazetta&#8217;s <em>A Man Called Dagger<\/em> art was discovered in 2020 and added to later editions of Frazetta art books.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the art to see a biggie-sized version.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C2nQbpwRqc8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frazetta Art Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rare Frank Frazetta piece.\u00a0 Titled A Man Called Dagger, it was created around 1968 for a proposed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[58,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379","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=41379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41381,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41379\/revisions\/41381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}