Archive for January, 2005
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Silver Star #2 - Darius Drumm
The “Visual Novel” continues this issue, where the main focus is on the villain, Darius Drumm. But first we catch up with Morgan Miller, ten years later, and how his powers of atomic manipuation have developed. They’re then attacked by projections of Drumm, who also attacks Silver Star’s government minder in his car.
This […]
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
3 Publishers, 3 Covers (Two-Gun, Secrets, Love)
A trio of 1950s Kirby covers
I LOVE YOU #7, 1955. Published by Charlton, another of the remnants of Mainline’s collapse (I don’t think Kirby ever worked for Charlton directly, unless the humour stories in FROM HERE TO INSANITY and CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY were done for them. I suspect even those might have done […]
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
–Link– 1966 Marvel Article
Fred Hembeck has been sharing various bits of 1960s newspaper articles about comics from an old scrapbook, and has just posted the 1966 Herald-Tribune article that Kirby felt minimized his contributions to Marvel. I think the article was also reprinted in TJKC a while back, but don’t remember the issue. However, look towards […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
Golden Age of Marvel #2
Six 1940s Kirby reprints, a total of 52 pages, among the stories in this volume, a few never otherwise reprinted.
First up is the first Vision story, from MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS #13 (1940). I’m not sure if there ever was a coherent origin or explanation for the Vision, but he was apparently an extra-dimensional being […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
Rawhide Kid #92
Two Kirby/Ayers reprints in this issue, both from RAWHIDE KID #18 (1960).
“At the Mercy of Wolf Waco” is a 13-page story, wherein the Kid is run out of town, doing that usual lame trick of shooting the guns out of everyone’s hands (this time fully a dozen men at once) and then running into the […]
