{"id":8567,"date":"2013-07-12T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:55:16","slug":"gravedigger-the-cover-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8567","title":{"rendered":"Gravedigger: The Cover That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z071213gravedigger_goldkey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;t you dig this<strong> Gold Key <\/strong>cover mock-up for<strong> Gravedigger<\/strong>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/atomic-pulp.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chris Mills<\/strong><\/a> explains how the faux cover came about:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had so much fun mocking up that Gold Key Comics-styled\u00a0<i>Femme Noir<\/i>\u00a0cover yesterday, that last night I dusted off the terrific, painted\u00a0<i>Gravedigger: The Scavengers<\/i>\u00a0variant cover by my friend\u00a0<b>Fred Harper<\/b>, and knocked out this retro\/faux\u00a0<i>Gravedigger\u00a0<\/i>piece. There&#8217;s something kinda subversive about seeing the squeaky-clean Gold Key trade dress &amp; logo on this hardboiled title&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t forget that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3JRj9UC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gravedigger: Hot Women, Cold Cash<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Chris Mills<\/strong> and <strong>Rick Burchett<\/strong> is available!\u00a0 It gets my highest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you dig this Gold Key cover mock-up for Gravedigger? Chris Mills explains how the faux cover came about: I<\/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":[58,56,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","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=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39957,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/39957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}