Archive for June, 2005
Monday, June 27th, 2005
Black Magic #8[v2n2] [1951] – Cover
Wow, I’m just in awe of how gorgeous this cover looks. The shape and texture of the demon, the smoke, the girl in the background. Even more scary is how work like this was routine for Simon&Kirby in that era.
I sometimes wonder what Kirby’s 1960s and 1970s work would look like with this [...]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Thor #164 – Lest Mankind Fall
In this issue Thor and Sif continue their battle with the hordes of Pluto while in teh time funnel surrounding the Atomic Research Center, where a mysterious being of power is found within a cocoon.
I like Thor’s indignant “Thy words blaspheme” at the suggestion that anyone claim to have powers to match Odin. He’s [...]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2005
Strange Worlds #4 [1959] – Cover
One of Marvel’s shorter lived interchangeable anthologies of the late 1950s, STRANGE WORLDS only lasted five issues but did see four Kirby covers in that span (and one by Ditko), plus some interior work by those two and Al Williamson, Don Heck and others, so it did okay.
Christopher Rule is the attributed inker to this [...]
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
OMAC #1 – Brother Eye and Buddy Blank
Brace yourselves for “The World That’s Coming”.
OMAC ##1 is some strange stuff even by 1970s Kirby standards. What can you make of a book that opens with a full page splash of a disassembled robot woman “Build-A-Friend” in a box saying “Hello — Put me together and I will be your friend”? Just [...]
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
True Bride-To-Be Romances #20 [1956] – Cover
Another of the mid-1950s Harvey published romance books that Kirby just did the cover for, this one featuring the familiar choice a woman has to make between her farmboy and cityslicker beaus. Happens more often then you’d think.
And that’s a really nice looking hand. Very nice inking overall on this cover, especially the [...]
