Monthly Archives: October 2005

–Link– 1964 MMMS Record

Posted on October 13, 2005 by Bob

Mark Evanier is talking about old comic company fan clubs, in this post about the Merry Marvel Marching Society records of the 1960s, including a short bit of an interview with Kirby about the record which featured the Marvel Bullpen of 1964 and a link to mp3 format files of the two MMMS records.

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_10_12.html#010446

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Machine Man #5 – Non-Hero

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Bob

Machine Man continues his battle with Ten-For, who runs out to be craftier than expected, fooling the army into thinking he’s peaceful and Machine Man is violent while waiting for his invasion fleet to arrive. MM gives up on humanity thanks to this ploy, and then ends up as a costume party. Very strange stuff.

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Meanwhile, the Autocron fleet gets the message from Ten-For and prepares for their invasion.

Bit of an odd-layout on pages 2-3. They’re meant to be read as a two page spread, but without any of the usual visual cues except a really small unclear arrow, so you almost invariably read the panels in the wrong order. I wonder if part of this was originally meant to be a two-page spread, but then shrunk down and reformatted. Doesn’t seem likely, as the 17-page story length had been standard for quite a while at this point (shrinking page counts had led to such reformatting in some other 1970s work, like an issue of OMAC).

Mike Royer inks the 17-page story, Klaus Janson inks the cover and Kirby writes a text page, “Would You Like a Machine to Fight Your Battles?”.

Published 1978

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Daredevil #3 [1964] – Cover

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Bob

An early Daredevil cover by Kirby. I like the Owl’s henchmen on this one, more than I like the Owl himself. And gotta love the classic trapdoor trick. Only a blind man would fall for that.

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Inked by Colletta.

Published 1964

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Upcoming Kirby – DC in early 2006

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Bob

Kirby hits DC’s version of the Marvel ESSENTIAL line with two books next year. The Green Arrow volume starts with his run from 1958 and continues on from there, the same stories included in the 2001 GREEN ARROW BY JACK KIRBY collection. The House of Mystery volume is a bit more trivial, but for the record it will have a reprint of the reprint of “The Negative Man” from HoM #84 in 1959.

SHOWCASE PRESENTS: GREEN ARROW VOL. 1 TP
Writers: Jack Miller, France Herron, Gardner Fox, Bob Haney, Dave Wood, Dick Wood, Robert Bernstein, and John Broome
Artists: Jack Kirby, George Papp, Mike Sekowsky, Neal Adams, Lee Elias, Bernard Sachs, George Roussos and Jerry Ordway
Collects stories from ADVENTURE COMICS #250-269, WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #95-134, 136, 138 and 140, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4 and THE BRAVE & THE BOLD #50, 71 and 85
528 pages, $16.99 US, black & white

SHOWCASE PRESENTS: HOUSE OF MYSTERY VOL. 1 TP
Writers: Joe Orlando, Sergio Aragones, Howie Post, E. Nelson Bridwell, Otto Binder, Robert Kanigher, Jack Oleck, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, John Albano and Jack Miller
Artists: Joe Orlando, George Roussos, Lee Elias, Doug Wildey, Bernard Baily, Carmine Infantino, Mort Meskin, Neal Adams, Sid Greene, Jack Sparling, Sergio Aragones, Howie Post, Bill Draut, Jim Mooney, Win Mortimer, Jerry Grandanetti, Gil Kane, Wallace Wood, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Toth, Wayne Howard, Al Williamson, John Celardo, Mike Peppe, Tony deZuniga, Leonard Starr, Tom Sutton, Ric Estrada, Ralph Reese, Frank Giacoia, Jim Aparo, Gray Morrow, Don Heck, Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, John Costanza and Nester Redondo
Collects HOUSE OF MYSTERY #174-194
552 pages, $16.99, black & white

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New Kirby – MARVEL MONSTERS: DEVIL DINOSAUR #1

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Bob

Just released, the first of the four one-shots feauring new stories of old Marvel monsters, backed up by Kirby reprints.

MARVEL MONSTERS: DEVIL DINOSAUR #1
reprints “I Was a Slave of the Living Hulk!” from Journey Into Mystery #62, November 1960 by Kirby/Ayers (13 pages), plus the Kirby/Ditko cover to JIM #62.

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