Archive for November, 2004
Sunday, November 28th, 2004
Captain America #112 – Lest We Forget
So, the story goes, Jim Steranko takes over CAPTAIN AMERICA from Kirby with #110. Shortly thereafter, for whatever reason, Kirby’s asked to draw #112 on an extremely tight deadline. He’s told the cliffhanger to #111 had Captain America dying. Did they want him to bring Cap back to life? No, they wanted him to keep [...]
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
Strange World of Your Dreams #3
This short lived series from the early 1950s featured two Kirby stories in this issue. The first is “The Woman in the Tower”, which has been reprinted in DC’s BLACK MAGIC #9 and Pure Imagination’s JACK KIRBY READER v1. Later in the book is a two page dramatization of a dream sent in by reader [...]
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
Monster Menace #3 – Zzutak
Back in 1993, during one of their periodic attempts to flood the market, Marvel published a few reprint mini-series of their horror comics from various eras. The Atlas monster era was represented in MONSTER MENACE. “Zzutak, The Thing That Shouldn’t Exist” is a 13-page Kirby/Ditko story reprinted from STRANGE TALES #88 (1961), featuring a comic [...]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
Kobra #1 – Fangs of the Kobra
The last new project Kirby initiated during his 1970s stay at DC was KOBRA (originally KING KOBRA). Unlike the trio of concepts thrown into FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL, this one was given an on-going book, with the first issue Kirby delivered (with Steve Sherman co-writing and D. Bruce Berry inking) re-scripted, re-arranged and partly re-inked (the [...]
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
–Link– Kirby interview video
Thanks to Mark Evanier for pointing out this selection of video clips at TV Party featuring a 1985 interview with Jack Kirby at a comic convention. Interesting stuff. The 10 clips run about two minutes each. http://www.tvparty.com/comics/kirby.html
