Archive for December, 2004
Friday, December 31st, 2004
New Kirby – Smithsonian Book…
Just confirming the recent release of the previously mentioned anthology, THE NEW SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF COMIC BOOK STORIES: FROM CRUMB TO CLOWES (ISBN 1588341836). As promised, it has a reprint of “The Hate-Monger” from FF #21, in black and white. Looks very sharp, though I again question the choice given the less than [...]
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Friday, December 31st, 2004
Year-end weblog tally
I know I’ve gotten some new readers recently thanks to plugs at Fred Hembeck’s site and others, and I wanted a quick reference page for posts I’d made, so here it is. To date, for those who care about such things:
178 posts in 111 days
204 Kirby books posted about
(plus two card sets)
116 of those [...]
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Friday, December 31st, 2004
1st Issue Special #6 – Dingbats of Danger Street
What better way to end a year?
Definitely the oddest piece to come out of Kirby’s five year stay at DC in the 1970s (at least among the published works) is his try at an updated kid gang, the Dingbats of Danger Street. This is strange by Kirby standards, and this is a guy who [...]
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Thursday, December 30th, 2004
Journey into Mystery v2 #18
This mid-1970s reprint book has two Kirby/Ayers classics from the early 1960s. From TALES OF SUSPENSE #31 is “The Monster in the Iron Mask”, a 7 page story. In this one, an invading alien race sends an advance scout to soften up Earth before their full force attacks. The alien is first [...]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2004
The Amazing Spider-Man #35 [1966] – Cover
Here’s one that always fascinated me. The Spidey figure on the cover of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #35 is a Kirby figure (usually attributed to Ditko inks, but I never quite saw that). Don’t think it’s ever been reprinted in any other version in English (unlike some other covers with paste-ups which reverted in reprints), [...]
