Archive for October, 2004
Monday, October 25th, 2004
First Romance Magazine #42 [1956] – Cover
FIRST ROMANCE MAGAZINE #42, 1956. One of the Harvey romance covers Kirby did in that era. An average Kirby cover, but I’m assuming the art doesn’t refer to story in the caption. Check out this juxtaposition:
If you can’t read it, it says
Should I Keep My Love a Secret? Or Compete With… “My [...]
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
Superman Gallery #1
Since I had it out to compare the pencils with the just released Milgrom inked version (and Milgrom did a great job with it), here’s the unused cover to JIMMY OLSEN #133, as published in THE SUPERMAN GALLERY #1 in 1993.
A fairly minor entry in the Kirby bibliography, even moreso now that the inked version [...]
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Sunday, October 24th, 2004
New Kirby – Jimmy Olsen v2
Odd how after nothing for quite a while, several Kirby books, from different publishers, are coming out within weeks of one another…
DC has just published the concluding volume of Kirby’s issue’s of JIMMY OLSEN, with this collection of #142-148. In addition to the stories and covers from those issues (one of them mis-credited, #145 [...]
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
Jack Kirby Checklist
Figured I should mention that a lot of the information for these entries comes from THE JACK KIRBY CHECKLIST 1998 FINAL EDITION, published by TwoMorrows. An essential guide for the Kirby fan, this 100 page book is almost sure to lead you to some Kirby story you didn’t know about, or a source for [...]
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Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Yet Another Cover Gallery
RAWHIDE KID #41, 1964. Love that image of the Kid leading a revolt on a mining cart.
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #78, 1958. As well as a number of stories, Kirby did a handful of covers for the DC fantasy books of the late 1950s
FANTASTIC FOUR #181, 1977. A nice large action-pose of the Thing by [...]
