Archive for February, 2005
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
2001 – A Space Odyssey #8 – The Capture of X-51
For the final three issues of 2001, Kirby introduced X-51. Seems the government has been experimenting with machines in the form of men, but found that the X-Series of robots tended to become unstable and violent. Doctor Broadhurst activates the built-in self-destruct for the robots, and they all explode. All except X-51, [...]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Giant-Size Fantastic Four #2 – The Red Ghost and his Indescribable Super-Apes
The new story in this issue featured the Watcher, so the reprint in the back went back to the introduction of the Watcher in FANTASTIC FOUR #13 (1963), a 22-page story inked by Steve Ditko.
In this story, Reed re-news his determination to beat the reds to the moon (and Roy Thomas helpfully points out this [...]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Weird Mystery Tales #3 – The Burners
More leftovers from the unpublished SPIRIT WORLD #2, this time featuring Kirby/Royer taking on spontaneous human combustion in a 10-page story.
Apparently Dr. Maas has some across all sorts of case history on the phenomenon, all lovingly rendered by Kirby. He dismisses those who would link the burnings to UFO activity (although that [...]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Fantasy Masterpieces #5
Heavy on the Kirby in this issue, with five stories reprinted, totaling 50 pages, plus a new Captain America figure on the cover by Kirby/Giacoia.
Three of the stories from CAPTAIN AMERICA #5 (1941) are included. Unfortunately, the reproduction is really splotchy, and they’re frequently edited for page-layout (usually involving chopping the sides of some [...]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
Giant-Size Man-Thing #3 – Save Me From the Weed
Reprinted from STRANGE TALES #94 (1962) is this 6-page Kirby/Ayers story. Some leakage from an atomic experiment winds up in the garden of millionaire Lucius Farnsworth, which is tended by George, a talented if somewhat tame gardener, who’s happy to stay as a gardener rather than open up his own landscaping business, as Fansworth [...]
