Monthly Archives: September 2005

Iron Man #95 [1977] – Cover

Posted on September 29, 2005 by Bob

I dunno, if that’s supposed to be the Washington Monument, the proportions and perspective seem to be a bit screwed up. On the other hand, Ultimo looks pretty cool, and Iron Man never looks better than when he’s covered in Kirby squiggles.

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Al Milgrom inks.

Published 1977

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My Own Romance #71 [1959] – Cover

Posted on September 27, 2005 by Bob

Class barriers and conflicts were one of the big themes of romance comics. Kirby did that well, with a lot of good visual shorthand no doubt based on his own experiences, with some great work on the background characters. Also of course the usual sexy and stylish main characters.

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Inks by Chris Rule.

Published 1959

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–Link– Publishers Weekly on MAXIMUM FF

Posted on September 27, 2005 by Bob

Publishers Weekly has an article on the genesis of the upcoming MAXIMUM FANTASTIC FOUR coffee-table book reprint of FF #1, with comments from Walter Mosely. Apparently the book jacket will fold out to a poster with photo reproductions of every page of the comic (it doesn’t say, but presumably full size) while inside every panel will be printed as a full page. If that’s your kind of thing.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6260703.html

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Tales to Astonish #59 [1964] – Cover

Posted on September 26, 2005 by Bob

A nice Kirby/Brodsky cover introducing the Hulk to the title, first through this guest shot leading to his solo run beginning next issue. There are a lot of great Kirby Hulk images on this run of covers, and this is one of my favourites. Just a very powerful and kinetic image, the movement is so clear you can see this as a storyboard for a movie.

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Published 1964

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Sgt. Fury #14 [1965] – Cover

Posted on September 24, 2005 by Bob

Here’s a nice image of the Howler’s circled by what I guess are their German counterparts. For some reason I’m tempted to reverse the logos and present it as the rare Earth-X comic BARON STRUCKER AND HIS BLITZKREIG SQUAD. Although I thought the character was better when they brought him into the modern age as Oberst Strucker, Agent of S.C.H.I.L.D.

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The Kirby checklist lists this as Colletta inks, but I’m not seeing it at all. GCD seems to be down, so I can’t cross-check there, but I’m thinking Ayers.

Published 1965

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