{"id":9954,"date":"2026-10-16T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:58:02","slug":"vic-vacs-trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/vic-vacs-trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic Vac&#8217;s Trick or Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9956\" class=\"img-caption thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" zoooom wp-image-9956 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Trick-or-Treat-10-27-63--874x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Trick-or-Treat-10-27-63--874x1024.jpg 874w, https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Trick-or-Treat-10-27-63--256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Trick-or-Treat-10-27-63--768x899.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Trick-or-Treat-10-27-63-.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><div class=\"caption\"><p>Howdy Folks, here is Vic Vac&#8217;s Halloween cover for 10-27-1963, titled &#8220;Trick or Treat&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the original caption:&#8221; Halloween is just around the corner, so get ready for the Trick-or-Treaters. They will be out in full force Thursday night and performing the way they are on today&#8217;s cover by Globe-Democrat chief artist Vic Vac (Victor Vaccarezza).&#8221; In the late 1950s, my brother Kurt and I went from house to house on Halloween night, and didn&#8217;t just get handed a bunch of candy bars or taffy apples, we had to PERFORM to EARN our treats. We memorized poems, such as &#8220;Alexander&#8221; by A. A. Milne, and dressed in outfits hand sewn by our dear Mother. The little yellow clown in Vic Vac&#8217;s painting seems to have been elected to recite for the couple on the couch. I like the dog&#8217;s tail in back of the couch, too. The shadows on the wall are quite striking, and I like the delicious looking goodies on the table in the foreground.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childhood-nostalgia","category-st-louis-comics-history","comment-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}