Daily Archives: November 8, 2004

–Link– Kirby and Judaism

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Thanks to Scott Saavedra for pointing out this article from a few years back, from the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, about some aspects of Kirby’s religious life and how it figured into his work. Fun stuff.

Check out Scott’s Devil Dinosaur sketch while you’re at his site, too.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7322

Chamber Of Darkness #7 [1970] – I Found the Abominable Snowman

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This 1970 comic reprints a Kirby/Ditko story from TALES TO ASTONISH #13 from 1960.

Chamber Of Darkness #7 [1970]

Very nicely paced story about a man who comes across a photo of the Abominable Snowman, and starts on an obsessive search through the Himalayas for the mythic beast. The exotic locales come through nicely, and the story builds cleverly to the inevitable conclusion. Definitely one of the better overall Atlas stories, and the Ditko inks over Kirby are always a treat.

Published 1970

Three Covers

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SANDMAN, THE #3, 1975. Gotta love the monkey with the mechanical brain. Royer inks.

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #53, 1959. Giant robots attack, more Atlas sci-fi fun. The actually story for this cover was drawn by Don Heck.

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #42, 1945. More from the wartime stretch when Simon&Kirby just did the covers for the Newsboy Legion stories. Y’know, they’re lucky those criminals kept coming up with elaborate traps with lions rather than, I dunno, just shooting them.