Daily Archives: December 16, 2004

The Comic Reader #100 [1973]

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Here’s a neat rarity. In 1973 one of the earliest and longest running fanzines, THE COMIC READER, at that point edited by Paul Levitz (though not for much longer), reached #100, and ran front and back colour covers by Jack Kirby to celebrate (at the time they usually had black and white covers, art on the front only). The front had Superman and Captain Marvel, while the backcover had, well, these guys:

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Black Panther #7 [1978] – Drums

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This issue of BLACK PANTHER brings to a close T’Challa’s adventures with Abner Little and his society of “Collectors”, putting him on the road back to Wakanda. Little was a pretty funny character, bringing a lot of charm to the first half of this series. It’s also nice how Kirby has T’Challa acting very much as a king in this story.

Black Panther #7 [1978]

This issue also gives some background of the history of Wakanda and the Vibranium Mound which forms the basis of the Panther Cult and the Wakandan royal family, also introducing some more of the family and setting up the next story.

Mike Royer inks the story while Ernie Chan (or is the proper name Ernie Chua? I never could remember) inks the cover.

Published January 1978

New Royer – Radioactive Man #9 [#197]

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See, this weblog isn’t as monomaniacal as all that. I’m more than happy to cover major Kirby inkers as well as Kirby…

radioAnyway, Mike Royer makes a rare return to comic books by providing the inking, over Batton Lash script and layout and Mike DeCarlo pencils, for the lead story in Bongo’s RADIOACTIVE MAN #9 (numbered #197 on the cover), which has a story featuring RM going up against Obrian of the New Guards. There’s even a story of the golden age “Radio Man”.

Something about this seems familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Oh well, as the cover says, “Dont Speak! Don’t Think!! Just Buy It and Shaddap Awready!!!”.