Archive for September, 2004
Monday, September 27th, 2004
Random Covers
A few random Kirby covers from various eras.
SPIDEY SUPER STORIES #20, 1976, inked by John Romita. Kirby got tapped for two issues of this surprisingly long running book that spun off from the Electric Company TV show’s Spidey segments. Both featured FF related characters (the other had the Surfer and Doom).
IN LOVE #5, [...]
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Sunday, September 26th, 2004
Where Monsters Dwell #36 – The Impossible Tunnel
WHERE MONSTERS DWELL was the longest running of several 1970s Marvel books which reprinted the Atlas fantasy/monster stories from the late 1950s and early 1960s. #36 includes a reprint of the Kirby/Ayers story from STRANGE TALES #97, “The Impossible Tunnel”.
The story is about a man who attempts to dig a tunnel underneath the Atlantic [...]
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Saturday, September 25th, 2004
Comments
This generally isn’t going to be a commentin’ type blog (though feel free to comment and ask questions on anything and I’ll try to get to it), but now that I’ve been doing his for two weeks I’m kind of curious who, if anyone, is reading and what you’d like to see.
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Saturday, September 25th, 2004
War Cover Gallery
Three more war covers to fit the theme of the previous entry, all these from books with no other Kirby art.
FOXHOLE #4 – 1955. Man is that intense. I feel like I should make an Apokolips Now joke, though
BOY COMMANDOS #13 – 1945. Nothing like some patriotic propaganda. Of course, the boys [...]
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Friday, September 24th, 2004
Our Fighting Forces #155 – The Partisans
One of the most unusual books Kirby was assigned to both write and draw during his five year stint at DC in the 1970s was OUR FIGHTING FORCES, a long-running war comic which then featured The Losers, a team of four US soldiers from different branches in a sort of “special missions” group. The [...]
