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Saturday, December 20th, 2008

2008 - A Kirby Odyssey

Doesn’t look like any more Kirby is due out in the last two weeks of the year, so here’s an overview of 2008 in Kirby publications. You can probably still get some of them in time for Hanukkah gift giving. Busy year again, with 41 publications listed below, some trivial but a fair number […]

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

Upcoming Kirby - Atlas, Vision and others

Couple of upcoming Kirby reprints announced recently. The issues of MARVEL MYSTERY in the Masterworks edition has the first four Vision stories, a few never reprinted before. Looks like the current plan is for the softcover Masterworks to follow the release order of the hardcover series, running monthly, so expect two volumes each […]

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

New Kirby - Demon Omnibus

Available now, JACK KIRBY’S THE DEMON OMNIBUS collects the entire 16 issue series by Kirby from the early 1970s in one volume. Great stuff, and with the exception of one digest-sized reprinting of the first issue the first time any of that stuff was been reprinted.

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Upcoming Kirby - Various early 2009 releases

Bunches of recently announced upcoming Kirby. TwoMorrows brings the COLLECTED KIRBY COLLECTOR up to the end of the standard magazine format issues. All the tabloid issues are still available, so no idea if they’ll ever collect those in some format. And of course they continue with #52 (#51 should be out in […]

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Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Happy Joe Simon Day

Congratulations to Joe Simon, born 95 years ago today.

As usual for all your Joe Simon needs I refer you to Harry Mendryk’s S&K Blog, and look out for several books by Simon in the next year.

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