Archive for November, 2004
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Taking a break
Apparently, a can of Campbell’s mushroom soup is the traditional symbol of a weblog taking a break. Well, that’s what Mark Evanier says, and he’s pretty much what qualifies as an unimpeachable authority for a Jack Kirby weblog. So here it is, with a Kirby twist:
Anyway, it’ll be at least a few days, […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Challengers of the Unknown #79
This issue of CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN reprints one of the stories from #2 and one from #1, from back in 1958. They look good, except for the fact that they insisted on re-colouring the Challs outfits from the plain purple to a red and yellow combination, and more distracting they colour them with […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
Classics Illustrated #35 - Last Days of Pompeii
A lesser known sidetrack to Kirby’s career is the short period that he did work for Gilberton, publishers of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED and WORLD AROUND US, in the early 1960s, just before the Marvel super-heroes took off. One of the major books he did there was a new edition of CI #35, a 45 page […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
Fantastic Four #78 - The Thing No More
This is a fun issue from the heart of the long Kirby/Sinnott collaboration on FF. In this issue, the boys of the FF return from their sub-atomic adventure of the previous few issues, while Sue is about to deliver her baby. Reed takes this oppurtunity to try out his latest cure for Ben, […]
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
Wartime cover gallery
From the lean times of late 1944, when Simon and Kirby were in the army, some months all the poor S&K fans had from the team were a few covers, like these three selections from the three DC/National books that S&K regularly contributed the lead story for.
It looks like, after helping out with […]
