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New Kirby – S&K SUPERHEROES [in San Diego only]

Bob — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:32:37 +0000

While the rest of us will have to wait a few weeks, if you’re in San Diego this weekend Titan Books will have copies of the new SIMON AND KIRBY SUPERHEROES book, with a special signed bookplate. If you get it, feel free to gloat and such in the comments. For those not getting a copy there, very hefty pre-order discount right now at that previous link and from other retailers.

Booth 5537 will also be the only place you can get hold of a copy of the brand new TANK GIRL: SKIDMARKS trade paperback, signed by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo, and signed advance copies of the gorgeous SIMON AND KIRBY SUPERHEROES! With a specially designed bookplate featuring Fighting American and Speedboy, these copies are signed by Joe Simon himself; plus a limited number are also signed by Neil Gaiman, who provided the introduction to the book, giving fans two autographs for the price of one! Outside of their work for Marvel and DC, this hardback compendium features all of the duo’s finest superhero stories and characters, including Fighting American, The Fly, Lancelot Strong and The Stuntman, fully restored to their original glory.

Booth 5537 will also be the only place you can get hold of a copy of the brand new TANK GIRL: SKIDMARKS trade paperback, signed by Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo, and signed advance copies of the gorgeous SIMON AND KIRBY SUPERHEROES! With a specially designed bookplate featuring Fighting American and Speedboy, these copies are signed by Joe Simon himself; plus a limited number are also signed by Neil Gaiman, who provided the introduction to the book, giving fans two autographs for the price of one! Outside of their work for Marvel and DC, this hardback compendium features all of the duo’s finest superhero stories and characters, including Fighting American, The Fly, Lancelot Strong and The Stuntman, fully restored to their original glory.

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New Kirby – Mid-year update

Bob — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:14:10 +0000

Busy half-year for Kirby publications. Highlight of the half-year is the Newsboy Legion reprint of golden age S&K material from DC.

Only one issue of TwoMorrows’s long running fan magazine, with some interesting stuff on 1960s Marvel, plus some stories from Kirby’s work for Gilberton’s WORLD AROUND US.

THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #54

A few reprints from DC. Obviously the Newsboy Legion one is the most important. Really good stuff, and their reproduction from printed comics improves with every book. A few of Kirby’s more obscure 1970s creations with only one published story each get reprinted in books collecting later appearances of the characters.

THE NEWSBOY LEGION BY SIMON & KIRBY HC
KOBRA: RESURRECTION TPB
SUPERMAN: THE COMING OF ATLAS TPB

A few reprints of public domain material, Lockjaw and Earl the Rich Rabbit in the IDW book and a few crime stories in the Pure Imagination re-issue of the 1980s Eclipse collection.

GOLDEN COLLECTION OF KLASSIC KRAZY KOOL KIDS COMICS [IDW]
TEEN-AGED DOPE SLAVES AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS TPB [Pure Imagination]

And of course a raft of reprints from Marvel in various formats. The recent re-coloured reprints of the Tales of Asgard back-ups get collected. The old hardcover Masterworks line has one volume with a lot of Kirby monsters, while the softcover line has a whole lot of his super-heroes. The black-and-white Essentials line gets to some 1970s material where Kirby did the covers, and a few other reprints had single Kirby stories.

THOR: TALES OF ASGARD BY STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY HC
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: ATLAS ERA TALES TO ASTONISH VOL. 3 HC
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 1 TPB
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: DAREDEVIL VOL. 1 TPB
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: IRON MAN VOL. 1 TPB
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: SILVER SURFER VOL. 1 TPB
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 4 TPB
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 3 TPB
ESSENTIAL AVENGERS VOL. 7 TPB
ESSENTIAL FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 8 TPB
AVENGERS: I AM AN AVENGER TPB
X-MEN VS. AVENGERS PREMIERE HC
X-MEN VS. FANTASTIC FOUR PREMIERE HC

No slowdown in the second half of the year. The highlight should be the second book Joe Simon is doing through Titan, THE SIMON AND KIRBY SUPERHEROES, a 480 page hardcover including just about all the non-DC/Marvel superhero work the duo did, including the complete Fighting American, Stuntman and a lot more. Last I heard the hope was to have some copies out for the San Diego Con in a few weeks, and general release soon after. Also highly anticipated from DC is THE BOY COMMANDOS BY SIMON & KIRBY HC, the first book of one of the great kid-gang feature. Also one more issue of THE JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR this year, probably some more public domain reprints and of course a bunch of stuff from Marvel, heavy on the Thor for obvious reasons. Updates over here, as usual.

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New Kirby – Teen-Aged Dope Slaves reprint

Bob — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:48:08 +0000

The new Pure Imagination edition of the 1989 Eclipse collection TEEN-AGED DOPE SLAVES AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS is now available. I assume the same two S&K stories that were in the original, “The Bobby Sox Bandit Queen” (HEADLINE COMICS #27 [1947]) and “I Worked For The Fence” (HEADLINE COMICS #28 [1948]), are included, but if anyone can confirm I’d appreciate it.

For some more substantial S&K, Harry Mendryk has a sampling of some of the work that will be in the 480 page SIMON & KIRBY SUPERHEROES book. Looks like it should be out in late summer, with the hope of having copies in time for the San Diego Comicon.

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New Kirby – NEWSBOY LEGION and others

Bob — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:23:24 +0000

A busy week for new Kirby, highlighted by the release of THE NEWSBOY LEGION BY SIMON & KIRBY Hardcover, the first few years of the classic golden age feature. Joe Simon provides a new introduction, the majority of the stories never reprinted before (and most of the prior reprints were almost 40 years ago). I’m looking forward to getting it.

Lots of stuff from Marvel as well. The recoloured versions of the 49 “Tales of Asgard” stories get collected, the hardcover Marvel Masterworks get to the third volume of Tales To Astonish reprints, and the softcover versions break the order of the original releases in order to get the first Iron Man book out ahead of an upcoming movie.

Catching up on recent weeks, a new KIRBY COLLECTOR came out last week, and recently softcover Masterworks of Captain America v1 and the Fantastic Four v3 came out.

New releases are listed over here, as usual. And I’m still working on it, but if you’re buying the books from Amazon check out this site’s Amazon Store for all your shopping needs.

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New Kirby – A few minor Marvels

Bob — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:32:03 +0000

First week of the year has a few minor Kirby reprints from Marvel. ESSENTIAL AVENGERS VOL. 7 TPB has the mid-1970s run which includes several new covers by Jack Kirby, as well as one issue which reprinted part of AVENGERS #16 with a new framing sequence. And X-MEN VS. FANTASTIC FOUR PREMIERE HC and X-MEN VS. AVENGERS PREMIERE HC each reprint a 1980s mini-series backed up by the original 1960s meeting of the title teams (FF #28 and X-MEN #9, respectively).

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New Kirby – JKQ #15 in America and more

Bob — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:22:08 +0000

Just did an overdue update on the Kirby releases page. Usual mix of new stuff from Marvel, latest JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR is out, apparently last year’s JACK KIRBY QUARTERLY #15 shipped to comic shops in North America this past week.

And THE BEST OF SIMON AND KIRBY should be available just about everywhere books are sold now, and it’s quite gorgeous. In fact, I’ll say right now, if I had to pick a single Kirby book to recommend out of the hundreds that have come out since I started tracking them for this weblog in 2004, weighing the quality of the material, the quality of the production and the value for the price, this would be the winner.

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New Kirby – Best of S&K

Bob — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:25:51 +0000

Diamond Comics is listing THE BEST OF SIMON & KIRBY hardcover (DEC084249) as shipping this week. From experience, I can tell you that books like this sometimes have a several-week-long roll-out as different warehouses receive and ship it out across the country, so check with your vendor of choice before you make a special trip down for it.

Amazon is still listing May 12, but presumably they and other mail-order places will start shipping out orders as soon as they actually have the book.

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New Kirby – “Supermen” and Cap and TJKC

Bob — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:39:57 +0000

Couple of recent releases with Kirby reprints..

CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS #1 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL includes an S&K reprint. Not sure which, I think I heard it would be a Red Skull story, I should know by this weekend and will update here.

SUPERMEN! THE FIRST WAVE OF COMIC-BOOK HEROES (1939-41), unless it’s been revised since the table of contents was put on Amazon, has the Cosmic Carson story from SCIENCE COMICS #4 and the final S&K Blue Bolt story from BLUE BOLT #10. Plus a bunch of Jack Cole, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Basil Wolverton and others.

Newest KIRBY COLLECTOR is out soon, the digital edition is available already for $3.95, or free if you also order the print edition.

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New and Upcoming Kirby

Bob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:11:20 +0000

Catching up on some Kirby release info, stuff’s been coming out steadily this year. One I missed on solicitations was that THOR #600 reprinted several “Tales of Asgard” shorts as backups, but more on that in a bit. Biggest release of the year so far is tomorrow, a collection of Kirby’s dozen OUR FIGHTING FORCES issues.

March 11, 2009 – THE LOSERS BY JACK KIRBY HC
March 4, 2009 – COLLECTED JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR – Volume 7
February 25, 2009 – MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1 TPB
February 25, 2009 – MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE MIGHTY THOR VOL. 8 HC
February 11, 2009 – THOR #600 (several Tales of Asgard short stories)
February 4, 2009 – MARVEL MASTERWORKS: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1 TPB (a few covers and a short back-up)
January 28, 2009 – MARVEL MASTERWORKS: GOLDEN AGE CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 3 HC

And a few new things announced from Marvel. The TALES OF ASGARD mini-series will presumably include all 49 five-pagers from JIM/THOR #97-#145, and probably six rather than five issues as listed, but with Marvel you never know. I’m guessing a collection of them soon after is likely, if not certain, and hopefully the “modern coloring” won’t be that bad. I assume that recent THOR #600 was a sample of what to expect, so if anyone picked that up and wants to comment, feel free. And all three of Kirby’s YELLOW CLAW issues from the 1950s are included with some other fine stuff , much of it never reprinted before, in one expensive book.

THOR: TALES OF ASGARD BY STAN LEE & JACK KIRBY #1 (of 5[?])
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by JACK KIRBY
Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL
The legend has come true! By the will of the gods, I am alive! I am invincible! I am — THOR!!! And so began the very first epic tale of Marvel’s most revered hero, the mighty Thor, whose legend would grow alongside the success of Marvel comics, making him the most exciting super hero of all time! Never has Thor been more sensational than during these early tales, crafted by Marvel’s greatest, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Re-live classic Norse mythology in the mighty Marvel manner as well as Stan and Jack’s stories of the Norse Gods and Thor before he came to Earth as Don Blake. Witness as these masters breathe life into the thunder god and some of Marvel’s most enduring characters: Helmdall, Balder, Loki, Odin and Hela. Read these stories as never before with all-new, modern coloring and six extraordinary interlocking covers by current THOR artist Olivier Coipel. Collecting the “Tales of Asgard” backup stories from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #97-104

48 PGS./$3.99

MARVEL MASTERWORKS: ATLAS ERA BLACK KNIGHT/YELLOW CLAW VOL. 1 HC
Written by STAN LEE, AL FELDSTEIN & VARIOUS
Penciled by JOE MANEELY, JACK KIRBY, JOHN SEVERIN, FRED KIDA & VARIOUS
Cover by JOE MANEELY
From the heroic times of King Arthur to the dangers of the Cold War, the Atlas Era brings you the greatest adventure stories from the 1950s. Presenting the original series of two legendary characters that have bridged the decades – all the way from the Atlas Era to the Avengers and Agents of Atlas – Black Knight and Yellow Claw are must-haves for every Marvel maniac! Sir Percy of Scandia may appear to be a foppish weakling, too timid to fight and the scorn of Camelot, but only Merlin knows the truth: Sir Percy is the gallant Black Knight! Come to drive Modred de Monfort from King Arthur’s court, he wields the ebony blade against Norman invaders, dragons, imposters and usurpers to the throne. With the pencil of Atlas great, Joe Maneely, delineating the action,Black Knight is a sure-fire classic! Then comes Cold War tales of mystery, espionage and world domination from the pages of Yellow Claw! Illustrated by the incomparable trio of Joe Maneely, John Severin and –in a rare mid-50s Atlas appearance– Jack Kirby, F.B.I. Agent Jimmy Woo’s mission to capture the century-old mystic from the root of the Himalayas is packed with gritty crime and unimaginable adversaries, from mind-bending mutants and UFO the Lightning Man to Temujai the Golden Goliath and the Living Shadows! Collecting BLACK KNIGHT #1-5 & YELLOW CLAW #1-4.
256 PGS. $59.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3515-9

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New Kirby – Demon Omnibus

Bob — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:49:49 +0000

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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