Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
X-Men – The Early Years #2 – No One Can Stop the Vanisher
This issue reprints X-MEN #2 (1963), more early adventures of the strangest super-team of all. This issue seems to spend a lot of time setting up the powers of each character, with an opening scene of them making their way to the mansion to answer a call from Professor X, where he tells them [...]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
New Kirby – Jack Kirby Collector #42 – quick notes
A few quick comments on TJKC #42, the most recent issue. First thing, a note in here mentions that BACK ISSUE #10 has an article on Kirby’s b&w magazines for DC, published and unpublished. Anyone seen that and can give a rundown on what’s included (especially if there’s any unpublished art that hasn’t [...]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Where Monsters Dwell #11 – Gruto, the Creature From Nowhere
This 13-page Kirby/Ayers story is reprinted from 1961’s JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #67. For the reprint, Gruto is recoloured from red to green (though oddly not on the cover, which takes the monster image from the Ditko original cover and redraws the human figures completely).
In this story, a reporter needs to come up with a [...]
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Demon #11 – Baron von Evilstein
In the middle of the run of THE DEMON, Kirby trotted out various classic themes of horror novels and movies and gave them his own spin. In this story he played off the classic Frankenstein concepts to great effect. Etrigan confronts a giant beast on the rampage in a Gotham City park. [...]
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Saturday, May 28th, 2005
New Kirby – Essential Thor v2
At long last the second volume of ESSENTIAL THOR has been released, a big chunk of some of Kirby at one of his creative peaks for a very affordable price. Lots of fun.
Also of note on that topic, there’s a new printing of the first volume of ESSENTIAL FANTASTIC FOUR (with a Kirby cover [...]
