Daily Archives: September 14, 2005

Rawhide Kid #134 [1976]

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Three Kirby/Ayers stories and one cover reprinted from 1962 in this issue.

The cover and lead story are from RAWHIDE KID #30. “When the Kid Went Wild” features a favourite plot device of comics of that era, the hypnotist (there were a lot in the super-hero books). The hypnotist in question is Spade Desmond, who comes to town and uses his powers to get free drinks and embarrass people. When the guns come out he’s too distracted to use his powers, so the Kid helps him out. Desmond is pretty ungrateful, though, and decides to bring the Kid under his powers.

Rawhide Kid #134 [1976]

I love that middle panel. Those Kirby extreme close-ups are always fun, and this one especially so. He uses the Kid’s reputation to do some robbing, until finally he tries to force the Kid to cross the one line he refuses to.

The other two stories are from RAWHIDE KID #27, “The Man Who Caught the Kid” and “The Girl, The Gunmen, and the Apaches”, which I talked about from a prior reprint. A good variety of the types of adventures the Kid encounters in this issue.

Published 1976

New Kirby – Marvel Masterworks Doctor Strange

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Boy, been a while since the last New Kirby announcement. Trivial one this time. Marvel just released MARVEL MASTERWORKS – DOCTOR STRANGE v2, collecting the last few Ditko stories and the rest of the STRANGE TALES run. This wouldn’t be relevent to this weblog except that v1 contained no covers, so this one includes all the covers featuring Doctor Strange that should have been in v1, several by Kirby. Exactly how many depends on how loosely they interpret “Doctor Strange’s cover appearances”.

Nova #4 [1976] – Cover

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The new kid on the Marvel block meets one of the veterans in this Kirby/Sinnott cover from early in the run of NOVA. Good stuff, of the non-Kirby 1970s characters I think that Nova looks most at home drawn in Kirby’s style, so fits nicely on a Kirby cover fighting Thor.

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Published 1976