Archive for August, 2005
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Marvel Spectacular #4
Thor and the Recorder are off to confront the Ego, the Living Planet this issue, one of Kirby’s most audacious villains of the era, in a reprint of “Behold, The Living Planet” from THOR #133 (1966). Edited reprint, of course, cutting out the second page of a two-page spread, moving a word balloon over. [...]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
Tales to Astonish #43 [1963] – Cover
A dramatic Kirby/Brodsky cover for the Ant-Man series. I love the occasional panel-breakdown cover like this, with some great poses drawing you into the story. And the matches to give a sense of scale are a nice touch.
Published 1963
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Sunday, August 28th, 2005
Happy Kirby Day
88 years ago today, Jacob Kurtzberg was born. I hope to get a special post done later today, but until then I’ve updated the indices of posts over on the sidebar, alphabetical and chronological, so feel free to look at a few random entries among those 445 books with Kirby work.
Real life got in [...]
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Saturday, August 27th, 2005
Thor #252 [1976] – Cover
Always a big fan of Ulik, he was a fun character in the 1960s stories, really cool looking, so it was nice to see him on a few Kirby covers in the 1970s.
Verpoorten inks, with a bit of touch-up work credited to Romita in the Kirby checklist, but pretty minor compared to some.
Published 1976
Tomorrow
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Saturday, August 27th, 2005
OMAC #6 – The Body Bank
Following the events of the previous issue, OMAC heads down the subway in pursuit of kidnappers who steal young bodies to sell to the old rich. One of those non-stop action bits with a few weird concepts thrown in. I love that classic style Kirby tech in the medical equipment, and of course [...]
