Archive for April, 2005

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

Break time

You know what the mushroom soup means. Going to be busy for the next few days or weeks, might show up with a few quick entries or cover galleries if possible, but don’t bet on it.
I’m going to be updating an old Kirby FAQ that I had to add to the sidebar. Anyone […]

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers Special #1 - The Space Musketeers

“Victory is Sacrifice”. Truer words were never spoke. It can be quite a sacrifice to read Captain Victory sometimes. While obviously I’m a big fan of Jack Kirby (for those of you who haven’t picked up on that yet), no one can do 25,000+ pages of comics and hit everytime, and I’d […]

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Monday, April 25th, 2005

New Kirby - Marvel Milestones with Hercules

The second in the new series of Marvel Milestone one-shots has been released, MARVEL MILESTONES: VENOM & HERCULES. The Hercules half of the book is the first Thor/Hercules story from JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY ANNUAL #1 (1965), along with the cover and map of Asgard from that issue. The cover was really badly reprinted, […]

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Friday, April 22nd, 2005

Fighting American [Harvey] #1

Harvey comics published a single issue of FIGHTING AMERICAN in 1966, with a few reprints of the mid-1950s series as well as a few unused stories from that time by Simon & Kirby, including a new cover.
Bit pressedfor time, so I’ll write more on this later. For now here’s a page from “The Secret […]

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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Prize Cover Gallery

Another cover gallery, this time scattered genres by S&K published by Prize in the early 1950s.
PRIZE COMICS WESTERN #83, 1950. A very nice detailed cover, with a nice dynamic layout.
JUSTICE TRAPS THE GUILTY #22, 1951. And some good violent fun on this one, with some nice inking.
BLACK MAGIC #12[v2n6], 1952. […]

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