Archive for September, 2004
Thursday, September 30th, 2004
Cover Gallery
More covers from throughout the years.
STAR SPANGLED COMICS #38, 1944, was from the era when Kirby was in the army, and only did covers for the DC/National books. STAR SPANGLED was still running the Newsboy Legion as the main feature, as it has been since #7, and this is a fun wartime patriotic style […]
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
–Link– Lord of Light
Kirby did over a dozen great (but probably completely unproducable) production design prints for a planned film adaptation of the novel LORD OF LIGHT. Take a look at them at this site.
http://www.lordoflight.com/art.html
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
Buried Treasure #1 - The Mad White God of Palm Island
BURIED TREASURE was a reprint anthology of various Golden Age stories prepared by Greg Theakston for Caliber Press. A few issues had some Simon&Kirby reprints.
This story was from the Hillman book REAL CLUE CRIME COMICS v2#7, 1947, and claims to be based on a true story (in fact, it’s “so amazing because it’s true!”). […]
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
Who’s Who #15
When DC published its first WHO’S WHO series of character profiles in the mid-1980s, they had Kirby pencil the art for most of the characters he created. That ended up being 43 entries. About two-thirds of them were inked by Greg Theakston, with the remainder inked by various others (including one with some […]
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2004
Sandman #1 - The Sandman
There’s probably the unrealized germ of a good idea in the 1970s revival of Sandman, which re-united Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for a one-shot issue, with Mike Royer along inking. Unfortunately, not a lot of it comes out in the final story, which is a hodge-podge of ideas thrown out without any real […]
