Daily Archives: December 12, 2004

New Kirby – Essential Iron Man #2 etc

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This is one of those trivial entries in a Kirby bibliography, but I’m not going to win that award for “Most Monomaniacal Comics Weblog” with half-measures now, am I? Anyway, the just released ESSENTIAL IRON MAN #2 has about a half-dozen Kirby covers from the last bit of IM’s run in TALES OF SUSPENSE. Doubly trivial because all of those covers were reprinted in the same format in ESSENTIAL CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 a few years back.

Less trivial, there should be a new JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR in the next few weeks, and hopefully the updated KIRBY UNLEASHED portfolio will be out soon.

And request for information, anyone know what Kirby work is in the recent ART OF MARVEL v2 hardcover? Is it strictly previously published and/or fairly common stuff, or did they sneak in something unpublished and/or rare?

Tales Of Suspense #19 [1961]

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Before Swamp Thing, before Man-Thing, there was “The Green Thing”. A 13-page Kirby/Ayers cover story in this issue of TALES OF SUSPENSE, featuring a scientist who goes to a remote island to test his serum, which he thinks will increase the intelligence of plants. Not finding the highly developed plant he hopes, he instead tries the serum on a weed, which grows to giant size, gains intelligence and plans to rule the world.

Tales Of Suspense #19 [1961]

Fortunately, with the remaining serum, the scientist is able to evolve a sample of his original choice, Ignatius Rex (and while checking to see if that was a real plant, all I found were links to websites about this story), which is a more benevolent walking plant. Lucky that worked out.

Hm, giant weed turning its own fibers into a lasso, these are some strange comics.

Published July 1961