Daily Archives: August 11, 2005

Devil Dinosaur #5 [1978]

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Devil’s battle against the alien invaders continues, as he thinks the captive Moon-Boy is dead. With White-Hair and Stone-Hand, Devil realizes that the Swarmers (giant ants) who inhabit the Tower of Death have the power and numbers to take on the invaders, and manages to get the invaders to destroy the Tower, causing the Swarmers to attack in mass.

Devil Dinosaur #5 [1978]

Odd, since I’m picking these randomly, that so many cool Kirby insect comics have come up in the past few weeks.

Mike Royer inks the 17-page story, and one strange thing I noticed. See that thick border on the final panel? Every single page in the story has one panel with a border like that, kind of a weird form of visual boldface for the panels. I wonder if that was something Royer did on his own, or something Kirby indicated, or a Marvel thing. Are there any other Kirby comics from that era which have that effect? Joe Sinnott inks the cover.

Published 1978

Marvel Triple Action #29 [1976] – Cover

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Kirby got a chance to draw the old Avengers in this issue reprinting #37 from shortly after he originally stopped doing the covers. Nice cover, especially with the trademark Kirby crackling energy.

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Dan Adkins inked the cover, one of a handful he did during that era.

Published 1976