Archive for October, 2004
Sunday, October 31st, 2004
New Kirby - Jack Kirby Reader Volume 2
Just released, ISBN 1566850266
Only on-line place I’ve seen it offered is Last Gasp
More work from Kirby in the 1940s and 1950s, about 160 pages in crisp black and white. A good mix of almost all genres except super-heroes (and if you want Kirby super-heroes there are a few other books available), with crime, romance, […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2004
New Kirby - Marvel Visionaries Jack Kirby
ISBN: 0785115749
MARVEL VISIONARIES: JACK KIRBY was just released. While I could (and will) quibble about a few thing, it’s an incredible bargain. I wasn’t expecting it to be at the slightly larger size Marvel’s been using for its hardcovers of contemporary books, and at 352 pages for $30 it’s under half the price-per-page […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2004
New Gods #7 - The Pact
Note, this is the 100th Kirby book featured on this web-log. Of course, a disproportionate number of them (67) have been books where Kirby just did the covers, because they’re easier (I’ve got scans of about 300 other such books ready to go). I figured for #100 it should be one of the […]
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Friday, October 29th, 2004
Horror/Monster Covers
In the spirit of the season
MYSTIC COMICS #7, 1941. One of Simon&Kirby’s first covers at Timely, with some cool monsters. And Hitler, too. The Destroyer is one of those characters who didn’t seem to last very long.
BLACK MAGIC #2, 1950 (issue corrected, I got it mixed up with v2#2, aka #8. Wish […]
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Eternals #1 - Day of the Gods
Kirby’s first new series on his return to Marvel, a few months after he re-took the reins of CAPTAIN AMERICA, was THE ETERNALS. It also had the most complex set-up, with two hidden races emerging, the god-like Eternals and the monstrous Deviants.
The first issue eases into the concepts, with just one of the Eternals, […]
