Archive for November, 2005
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
The Defenders #45 [1977] - Cover
Old Greenskin and a whole lot of non-Kirby characters getting the Kirby treatment on this, Kirby’s last of four DEFENDERS covers. Joe Sinnott inks, with some modifications by John Romita.
Published 1977
No Comments » - Posted in Genre, Superhero by Bob
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Journey Into Mystery #90 [1963] - Cover
This issue of JiM marked the first issue where Kirby didn’t do the interior Thor story, missing most of the next year until taking over fulltime. The Carbon Copy Man isn’t the greatest of villains (oooh, carbon copy!!! Scary!!), of course, but the frozen Thor is pretty cool, especially the shading effect on […]
No Comments » - Posted in Genre, Superhero by Bob
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Fantastic Four #87 - The Power and the Pride
This issue features the last chapter of Kirby’s last Doctor Doom story, as the FF have escaped Doom’s latest trap thanks to a rescue from Sue, but still have to get out of Latveria. Isn’t that a great looking castle?
The rest of the story involves the various battles to get to Doom, including undercover […]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Bob
Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers #6 - Victory is Sacrifice
This extra-sized issue of CAPTAIN VICTORY concludes the war on Earth against the Insectons in the 25-page “Victory is Sacrifice”. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, with some really good images and bits, but not really living up to the full potential of the story. The epic sequence where Capain Victory sacrifices […]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Bob
Saturday, November 26th, 2005
New Kirby - Jack Kirby Collector #44
Now in stores, JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #44, with the Demon on the cover, two full-story reprints from BLACK MAGIC, lots of other stuff. Quick notes on the issue.
Highlight, as always for the past few issues, is the section of full story reprints, this time two stories from BLACK MAGIC #4 (”Voodoo on Tenth Avenue”) […]
